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Mike's tights story - I

posted Monday, 23 October 2006
Mikeby Mike

 

This is Mike's first post as a member of the editorial team, so a big welcome to Mike!
This is Part 1 of a 3-part series.

Following the recent heated debated about ‘acceptance’ I could not help but think about my take on this subject and how it became ‘accepted’ that I wear tights as a man.

Wearing tights is not a ‘right’ or a ‘privilege’ but a personal choice. As with all personal choices the level of commitment is an individual matter. Each of us set our own limits within which we feel comfortable.

Breaking this down to my own personal experience it appears to me that the stages of acceptance were – school days, as a young man, and now – adulthood. This account is my childhood days remembered.

When I first starting wearing I was most ‘comfortable’ alone at home. I knew then, that it would not be ‘acceptable’ for a boy of 14 to wear his mother’s tights. My parents would simply not accept it. But I looked forward to the couple of hours after school when I could wear them before my parents came back from work whilst I was supposed to be doing my homework. Off came my shorts and socks and on went a pair of my mother’s tights – much too big for me. They came up to my armpits – and on went my shorts and socks again. As the regulation school uniform knee socks slid down during the course of the afternoon, more and more tight clad leg was exposed. I loved it. Looking at myself in the mirror I had convinced myself that in the right light the tights (they must have been sheers, skin tone) are sometimes not noticeable. This was partly true, maybe, but looking back I also think it was a large dose of wishful thinking involved.

My nylon gene had taken hold and I loved the experience till some years later (I was now about 16) I was sitting at the kitchen table doing work on my final school exams wearing only a long t-shirt and tights (caution had gone to the wind as I became more confident wearing alone at home) when I heard the key in door! I was trapped! My mother had come early for whatever reason. My heart missed a few beats. I pulled the chair right up to the table so my legs could not be seen. My mother came in and unpacked some shopping oblivious to my situation. She then busied herself in the sitting room. I thought it would be safe to make a dash, unseen, to my room to get some trousers on. But, as I was scampering down the hall, my mother stuck her head out of the sitting room and said in a tone of voice which showed her boredom of the subject: ‘If you are going to wear tights – please buy your own, and cover yourself up – you look disgusting’.

As I sat on the end of bed – my head held in my hands I wished that I had never been born! Why didn’t the world just open up and swallow me? How much embarrassment could I take?  As I was recovering from what I was sure was the most embarrassing moment of my life so far and as I felt the hot flush, that had overcome me, slowly disappear I went back to face the music in the kitchen. My mother was sitting there with a cup of tea and had placed a cup opposite her awaiting my arrival – I dutifully sat down.

I cannot recall the exact conversation verbatim at this point but I do recall that we had agreed that:  a) I could wear tights, providing I bought from my pocket money. (My efforts to negotiate an increase failed!), and b) I was not to walk around the house without shorts and c)  I was not to wear in front of my father (whom we both knew would disapprove) or in front of any callers who might come to the house.

So it was that my wearing was accepted. Better said: ‘tolerated’. At least this was a beginning of ‘acceptance’, and something, which I could build on – and did – but that is a story for another time.

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1. Smoov left...
Monday, 23 October 2006 11:47 am

Mike - a great first post! I have to say I admire your mother's fairly laid back approach. I look forward to reading the next chapter in your story very much.

Smoov


2. Geraden left...
Monday, 23 October 2006 12:05 pm

Mike

I have always enjoyed your extremely funny Mike and Olga's Wonderful World of Welts series on the much-missed tights-excite site. (I do hope that your work can be saved for posterity. At present they are no longer publicly available, and only the last 3 are available in the private members' Yahoo Group of that name.)

However you now show what we have always suspected, that you can be serious when you try, and still remain interesting.

Thanks for sharing your early experiences of nylon. From your mother's remarks, it sounds as though she already knew you were sneaking her tights. Is that right?

Like Smoov, I am looking forward to reading the next instalment.

Geraden


3. Mike left...
Monday, 23 October 2006 12:21 pm

Hi G and Smoov thank you both for your comments. I'm not sure about how much my mother knew - but I do know she was 'unshockable'. I suspect that she did know prior to my being discovered - but was waiting for an appropriate time to bring the subject up - what better time than seeing your son in nothing but a t-shirt and tights!


4. pantyhose left...
Monday, 23 October 2006 9:08 pm :: http://pantyhose.blog-city.com/

Mothers are often like that : they know but say nothing. When I told my mother I liked wearing tights, she answered she already knew after having found many times before tights hidden inside my bed, but she thought this passion was recent. She didn't know that I began at a very young age. I started to like wearing tights at 5 years old and started stealing my mother's at 8.


5. Robin left...
Friday, 27 October 2006 10:40 pm

I'm 32 and I know my mother has known about my wearing tights for years. I started wearing tights openly around age 6 when they were part of a costume that I had had to wear for a play. I would often wear them around the house for a couple of years after that. My mom never seamed to mind although I was never comfortable wearing them around my father. Through the years I would "borrow" them from mom's drawer. On a few occasions, to my horror, they would be missing from my hiding places. She never mentioned it and to this day I guess it's still our secrete.


6. Geraden left...
Saturday, 28 October 2006 9:43 am

Welcome to my site Robin.

Funny how we seem to perceceive that Mums are more understanding than Dads about this sort of thing. Neither of my parents (both dead now) ever suspected my love for nylon. I do not think either of them would have been very sympathetic, though I was very loved and they spoiled me in other ways.

Geraden


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