Interesting to see this post surface again after 13 years. Anyway, in the past, when I was wearing a dress or skirt, I would usually wear real stockings and a garter belt, I particularly liked the vintage style seamed stockings. Always with a nice pair of heels, but rarely with panties, it made me feel extra sexy, a little slutty, and my husband loved it. If the lumps from the garters showed through a tight dress, or the stocking tops showed below a short skirt, all the better, it was a little hint of what lay beneath. But several years ago we moved to Florida, and we live in a beach city where women rarely wear nylons of any kind. You do need to keep your legs toned and tanned, and while bare smooth legs can be sexy, sometimes I do miss the excitement I got when wearing stockings and a garter belt.