Just Arrived : Charnos 60 den Opaque Tights

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

I ordered 2 pairs of Charnos 60 denier Opaque tights from Tightsplease in early November, and they have arrived! It took about 4 weeks to arrive.

I ordered a Navy and a Chocolate in XL, I'm not too sure about how the sizes go, so I decided to go bigger just in case they didn't fit me! Look forward to coming review posts when I try the tights on! Oh and a little something extra to share, my mum really enjoyed the Activskin A839 and the best thing is that she actually told me that one pair wasn't enough and she wanted more!! She told me to get more of them for her! She also commented that her feet was really rough and then after wearing the A839s she feels that they gotten softer and she is really pleased with them! Kudos to Activskin! 

Thanks for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh

P.S Sorry for not posting for a long time, been really busy with my other life commitments, I will post more often when I have the time! :) 

Weekly Vibe #4

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

This week was pretty awesome for me, I remember preparing to leave home on a Saturday, and my sister spotted me with cargo pants and Activskin's A894 Camouflaged tights and she commented.. "Nice socks! Where did you get them from!?" And I said.. "They aren't socks..." and before I could say where I got them from, she commented "They are stockings? Oh my God." I was pretty much laughing out loud in my heart. Well it wasn't really the first time she saw me wearing tights, her usual reaction would always be "Oh my God!" and this reaction to me isn't negative but hilarious.. Hahaha! And so I wore them out going for a World Of Tanks(MMO Game) tournament held in Singapore with my clan mates, and I was pretty surprised that they commented nothing about what was on my legs.. but the best part was.. our team emerged the 2nd place!

I'm in the middle!

A few days before I read an interesting post from Jessica's blog Fantasy Stockings about a 72 year old grandfather from China who helped his granddaughter model for her new teen clothing line, here are some photos! 

It is really pretty awesome if you ask me! You can read more here Grandfather modeling a teen clothing line in China

That's all for the week!

Thank you for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh

Men wearing Pantyhose on Montreal Gazette

Hi Creative and Fashionable!

Montreal Gazette's Jillian posted up an article on "Men wearing Pantyhose: Design Preferences?"

Here is an excerpt from the post, you can read more here 



"Oh, why not . . . file this under Give the People What They Want . . .

As previously mentioned, there is tremendous interest in the Men Wearing Pantyhose topic. It’s not about transgenderism. Men who like to wear pantyhose most often do not have gender identity issues: they are simply men who like to wear pantyhose. And why not?

I’m told there are products being designed for them, something called “mantyhose.” I’m wondering if many men are wearing them, or if they prefer products initially designed for women?

And would men who wear pantyhose like to see more sports themes on their hose, such as images of hockey players or racing cars or footballs or whatever?

This post is for you, guys. Feel free to talk about your interest in the subject. I’ll post your comments either in this entry and/or in a separate entry, depending on how many comments come in.

Cheers

Jillian

Send comments to jpage@montrealgazette.com "

I took the liberty emailing her my comments which went like this...

"Hi Jillian!

I wear legwear as part of fashion, I’m mostly inspired by Givenchy, Agnès B & many others(See here http://men-wearing-tights.tumblr.com/), and in fact I actually run a Legwear Fashion For Men blog http://legwearfashionformen.blogspot.sg/ Well preference wise… I have been trying out some brands that are designed for men and some designed for women, and for men specfically, I really like Activskin because it really has the male anatomy in mind and they are made so much more rugged because men are rough and rugged. I haven’t been trying many female styles but I am starting to.. due to the fact that male styles generally go more expensive than females so mostly for men, they would order an extra size and I like the fact that there are a number of online hosiery stores that have male tights category, take Tights Please http://tightsplease.co.uk for example, in fact the tights that were stocked there were most female styles with plus sizes. I’m glad that you stated that “Men who like to wear pantyhose most often do not have gender identity issues: they are simply men who like to wear pantyhose. And why not?” Nice one Jillian!

(One more thought): I think tattoo patterned tights would be nice! Not the flowery ones…

Blessings,
Andreas"

Feel free to write in too! I like the fact that Jillian has shed very positive light on Legwear for men! More men are starting to come out with their own opinions about legwear wearing patterns! In my opinion for now, for men to wear legwear is a very niche thing.. not every men will wear or try them for sometimes obvious aesthetic reasons.. but this legwear trend is picking up with the fashion forward men!

Thanks for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh

Weekly Vibe #3

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

I didn't have much of a eventful week except on Sunday! I was wearing my camouflaged A894 Activskin tights with cargo pants to church, but I had an extra mission! Sunday was kinda special because many parents have brought their babies to be dedicated to the Lord and so as I am a Church photographer and a full-time baby photographer I volunteered myself to be the main photographer to shoot the dedicated babies with their parents, we had a great time with dozens of people queuing to be shot... AND with my camo tights in full view with my cargo pants! And as usual, nothing was spoken or mentioned about my legwear!

On my way home in the train 

I was joking to a fellow male legwear friend that my camouflaged tights were really very camouflaged... because no one really stared.. even if I wanted to be! Hahahaha!
Anyways I'm still eagerly waiting for the arrival my Charnos opaque tights to arrive from the UK!

Thanks for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh

Weekly Vibe #2

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

This week has been pretty eventful for me, firstly I was able to interview Jessica of Fantasystockings.com and secondly the blog has reached over 10,000 views within 3 months! I would like to thank every reader who reads and follows this blog!

Earlier this week I received a text message via SMS of a local Singaporean man who has been following this blog and was very encouraged by what this blog has been doing for him and in fact tried wearing tights with shorts out! All in all it was a bittersweet experience for him, but however what I noticed is that he has gotten bolder and wanted to do it more! 

Also for the past few days I have been following closely with another hosiery blog, Fashion My Legs, the blogger Lisa shares interesting "Daily tights inspirations" but what really made it unique to me was that there were many "DIY" and "How To" articles examples like "How to tie dye tights", "How to paint tights", "How to wear black tights" and etc.

I have written in to Fashion My Legs blog and I'm looking forward to do an interview with Lisa about her blog, I'm praying that it comes to pass!

Another thing I would like to made known is that, my budget for shopping will be greatly reduced because I have made a building fund pledge to my Church which will last till February 2013, but no worries! I will still be doing legwear fashion reviews as much as I can and I know God will provide and He has been providing!

Thanks for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh

How do you behave/How do I behave with legwear

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

I'm sure some of you people out there wonder how did I achieve that level of boldness to wear legwear with short pants in the public. And so how to behave in public places for men who wears legwear with shorts?

Well to start off.. a little about my personality, I'm pretty much an artistic person and my day job is a photographer. And I believe very strongly in creativity, I portray myself to be unique individual, I enjoy to engage myself in conversations with people in my leisure time. I'm also considered to be a metrosexual man, in other words I enjoy shopping for clothes and look good outwardly. And so when I accessorise myself with hose, I will portray myself as being fashionably unique, not every men will or can wear hosiery, just like not all men will wear kilts. I would clothe myself in a way that the attention wouldn't be just on my legs, but on every single part of my body. So I would wear unique shirts, shades, style up my hair, nice shorts + hose and nice shoes(Matching them with the right colour is another story)

Style by Songzio (2011)

When I go out I would normally portray myself as walking down the runway like a model(of course without really swaggering like one...Hahaha!), walking confidently not being conscious of what I'm wearing on my legs, in fact if I do actually bother about people reactions, but in fact there aren't really much looks to my legs because my other clothing items have already "overpowered" the look of my legs. It's more of being yourself than being aware of people, just behave like how you normally would without hose.

Style by Reserva (2011)

My conclusion is in other words, be yourself and slay the demons in your head! Dress fashionably and look confident!

Thanks for reading!

Andreas Lucius Loh

10000 views!

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

Legwear Fashion For Men has garnered over 10000 visits ever since September! Thank you so much for the support you all have given to this blog! I look forward to posting up more material as we go by!

Thanks for the continuing support!
Andreas Lucius Loh