My tights rights week

Kaj

Yes, Geraden likes it very much when someone else writes for this blog. For two reasons – I don't have to worry what I am going to write, and (more importantly) it brings variety to the blog. I can write easily enough, but I struggle with style to make what I say interesting. My backgrounds are the academic world and the civil service, and I know that both of these show through in the way I write.

Thanks very much for giving an account of a man's everyday life in tights. This is how it should be! No angst, no hang-ups, just acceptance from self, family, friends and colleagues. Notice: self comes first – in this case! If every male tights wearer's week were like this, there would be no need for this blog.

If you are a member of LAUF you should qualify for membership of the MSN Group The Members of LAUF. I do not know what is happening there at the moment. The group is still active, and new photos are being posted all the time, but there have been no new membership approvals since September last year. I will make some enquiries.

I enjoyed the story about Miss I – my colleagues do not know about my wearing, or if they do, they are keeping remarkably quiet. I am not sure I am ready for it yet, anyway.

Keep wearing – and if Mrs Kaj gives you a hard time, feel free to give me the credit!

Geraden

Hi Kaj.

I enjoy reading your writings too. You seem to have interesting events, and reasonable views.

Thanks for taking the time to write, and thank you especially for writing about me.

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Sincerely, and with thanks, Eugene T.S. Wong

Hi Kaj,

It is always good to hear of your experiences, and how relaxed you are about wearing when your family and friends are there. We can't have visitors very often because my wife is too ill, but I don't think I would be brave enough yet to wear on the few occasions when her parents visit us!

Keep up the good work.

Kind regards, Sheers

Hi again,

Thank you Geraden, Eugene and Sheers4Fears for your kind comments. You can be sure that I enjoy reading about all your experiences and thoughts, I always do. Sheers4, I am sad to hear about your wife. I hope you still will have many happy years together. Eugene, I do like your stories and pictures about openly wearing tights with shorts.

After that I for some years ago decided to step publicly into spotlight in my tights there was no return to the past. Wearing tights openly at home and telling about my nylons to my relatives, colleagues, sponsors, pets, friends, plants and enemies was just a logical consequence of my conviction. Tights are a part of my personality and a hobby, why hide something that is so important and central? Besides, tights are very kind, ordinary, and trivial, they don’t hurt anyone. And they are practical. As the wise Geraden wrote, to be in terms with the self, even to its most fragile parts, is a condition for equilibrium. Life is too short and genuine to be wasted, and life is too absurd and crazy to be taken too seriously.

I have many times been thinking of an own blog. But I am afraid that I am too a busy family man to make it in an adequate way. That’s why I am so happy have the chance to take part in such a marvellous blog as Geraden’s. Thank you!

Kaj, too overwhelmingly eloquent today

Hey, guy. In you wikipedia article you wrote absolutely nothing about production of men tights in Germany in 60x-70x. That is too bad. Your story puts wrong impression like world was created yesterday. Even Bible tells that it was existing quite a while. Personally I like cotton tights for men. And what? Again nothing?

Hi Irbis

You have a good point. Wearing of tights by men did persist unbroken in Germany from the earliest times until about the 1970s.

It is not a subject that I am very familiar with, though I am aware that there is a lot of relevant material (in German) on http://www.deutsches-strumpfmuseum.de. That site also has a lot of illustrations.

Anyone can edit Wikipedia, so if you wish to add a section, feel free to do so. If you do contribute to Wikipedia I hope that your contribution will be a little more polite than we have seen here. If not, it will not last long, I can assure you!

Geraden