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Winning the Nylon War

posted Monday, 5 February 2007
Harisnyaby Harisnya

 

Harisnya is the male hosiery enthusiast behind e-manicipate.org and hosierymarketing.com, and the originator of the article on Wikipedia on pantyhose for men. He has already written several times on this site, and I am very pleased to welcome this latest contribution from him. - G.

I think we are winning the "Nylon War".

The recent developments at Gerbe and NoNonsense are more than promising. Both are traditional giants compared to those who are already producing male pantyhose (MPH).

What does it mean? Go to the Gerbe page, and you will find the best fashion photos ever taken about men wearing nylons. Why? At these corporations even the smallest steps cost more than our yearly personal budget. They cannot allow themselves not to be professionals. These corporations are high-quality sales-marketing machines with long-long track records. Once they accept an input, they will use all and every channels and tools to sell what they decided to sell.

They will start with small online sections and slowly move to the offline world - with promo articles and fashion shows first; online advertisements second; then they will go offline and in two or three years we will see the first billboard with a nice guy wearing pantyhose.

I bet you we will see this. Maybe not where we live, but thanks to the net, someone will post a photo on LAUF or here at Geraden, or at a future forum. I bet you at twenty pairs of the most expensive and luxury Comfilon male pantyhose that these large companies - carefully watched by competitors of a falling market - will finish the revolution that started back in 1995-96 with the closed L'eggs forum and the famous Geocities forum; was realised by Steve Katz in 1998; and was followed by small EU manufacturers in the early 00's.

They have the power to use the right tools, and they know how to do it. They will finish the job this time, when, compared to the 70's, information is running much faster than the ladder on our pantyhose.

So this is the moment we've been waiting for. Or at least I hope so. Please buy as many Comfilons as you can afford right now, because tomorrow you might find an overwhelming flow of male pantyhose from mainstream hosiery manufacturers.

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1. Geraden left...
Wednesday, 7 February 2007 8:10 am

Harisnya

Thank you – a good analysis of the situation, and I hope that you are right.

The catwalks are more or less ready for us. Street fashion always lags behind.

The problem for MPH wearers has always been that there is such a wide spectrum of reasons to wear, and some of those reasons are deemed by society to be not acceptable.

There would in any case be a difference of interest between male wearers at the mainstream and at the fetish ends of that spectrum. In the prevailing climate of opinion two seemingly opposite things happen: one is that amongst wearers, attitudes are polarised to either end of the spectrum, and the other is that amongst non wearers (i.e. society as a whole) negative images of MPH wearing which are (rightly or wrongly) associated with hosiery fetish are attached indiscriminately to all male wearers.

If manufacturers have decided to face off the perceived threat of association with a fetish, then indeed a corner has been turned.

Geraden


2. Richard left...
Friday, 9 February 2007 9:48 pm

Hello Geraden and others, For the "fetish" part, has been my main gripe. The porn industry has shown males in nylons,like BDSM,to get their jollies. This includes the "Rocky Horror Picture Show". Most of us, are not like that. But then, on the other hand, we have the one's that were serious about wearing.Those associations with males on the porn sites,didn't make any legitamacy for public wearing. It only served to show as a "fetish wear",with no real reason.That's why many can't disconnect the "fetish" part. With the real companies actually showing males wearing nylons,that the other association can now be disconnected. I am happy, that "No Nonsense", and "Gerbe" has taken the steps,to remove the "fetish" part.Steve Katz, has also done his part.I didn't want to leave him out. So, a big thanks to Steve,"No Nonsense" and "Gerbe". There's others I've missed like "WoMAN". Just glad, that these companies are turning the tide. It's about time.


3. Malcolm left...
Monday, 12 February 2007 2:31 am

Gerbe is bringing out its men's pantyhose line in March. See Yahoo News.

Once these big manufacturers are on board the advertising machines will swing into action and men's pantyhose will be as commonplace as mens earrings.

No difference for me - been wearing them for 40 years. Would be nice to see them on store shelves for men or women. Not too long to wait now. The tide has turned.


4. SandalToe left...
Friday, 10 August 2007 1:16 pm

Routes to the mainstream need to be walked one step at a time.

One possible first step is to market sheer-socks to be worn with sandals. This is already a surprisingly acceptable option, and most women I've asked consider it a far better option that thick, obvious, men's socks.

They would need to be either ankle-high, for wearing with shorts (so that the band can be concealed by the sandals), or knee-high for wearing with trousers/slacks. They'd either be sandal-toe or with lightly reinforced toes that extend far enough to cover the entire visible-toe section.

The selling point would be 'invisible' protection to prevent rubbing/blisters for those of us who don't wear sandals often enough for our skin to adjust.

Look at how quickly trainer-socks have become accepted since around 2001 when they started becoming popular among young men (and I recall hearing a little teasing of blokes who wore them at the time).