Attire-Hose Color (Offskintone Hosiery)

Hello guys, I’m back with the next part of this topic. 
Skintone shades are generally easier to go about with anything.  Like the usual saying goes: ‘find a shade closest to your natural skintone’ works well for most of us, but for those who wish to optimize the full spectrum of what hosiery makers do, this will probably not apply.
In this part, we go to the “hose route less ventured” by most of us male hose wearers who are already comfortable and confident wearing skintone shade hosiery out with your berms or shorts.  Not forgetting those who cycle/jog with hosiery!
The offskin shades generally makes the legs stand out, so there are a few factors which we may want to consider when hosing out in these:
How brave are you?
What is the color look you want to portray (fashionastias come in!)?

I’ve learnt from a few experience male wearers that have done offskin shades confidently out, for example, Andreas, whose patterned offskin hosiery attire are simply awesome, especially for the conservative Asian society.  Check out his blog http://legwearfashionformen.blogspot.com

The idea I have here is to bring attention away from the legs rather than drawing to them, so white attire with black hosiery are definitely a no-no.  I’ll split into a couple of scenarios here for easier illustration:
Light Look
Propeds Sheer Support, Nutmeg, Smoky Pearl shade
For these pale shades hosiery, I’d match with the following attire:
Top:    Black Tee / Printed Black Crew Neck long sleeves with grey trims
Bottom:    Slimcut grey berms (default or rolled up depending on how much hosed legs you want to show)
Footwear:    Flips Bare Pin Stripe Denim boat shoes / CottonOn Emblem Grey Canvas loafers

Medium Look
Propeds Sheer Support, Chocolate
This shade is tricky hence I have only matched with the following so far during a trail:
Top:    Blue, Silver variant horizontal striped tee on black
Bottom:    Black with grey checked lines knee length cargos, default length.  Rolling up isn’t advisable in view of the hosiery shade
Footwear:    CottonOn Emblem Grey Canvas loafers

Dark Look
The darker shades in this spectrum consists of the following in my inventory:
Propeds Sheer Support, Sparrow, Shadow, Black
Womanderie Anti Embolism Pantyhose, Black

My best and probably the most daring was in the following attire with Propeds Sheer Supports in Black:
Top:    Blue, Silver variant horizontal striped tee on black
Bottom:    Su.Soku Seamless Ankle Length leggings, black
Footwear:    Power PlayOn slip on runners with neon linings

The last attire had a good way to bring attention away from the leg with the heavier and bulker looking shoes.

Attire-Hose Color (Skintone Hoisery)

Been talking more actively to like-minded male hose wearers in a common cyber community lately.  The topics range from correcting the Flickr hyperlink, leggings and color combination for attires with hosiery.
Today I’ll be a little more focused by talking about what I usually do when hosing out in public, attirewise.  As I’m not a fashionastia, my focus is usually on combination of colors on attire and foot wear to match the hosiery shade I wear out.  We’ll be sticking to the skintone spectrum this time round.
For example, if I’ve decided to look brighter on pale colors, the hosiery shade I’ll select will be in the Beige or identical range, which consists of the following hosiery:
Propeds Sheer Support / Elegant All Sheers, Beige Shade
Astigu Strength Support Pantyhose, Color 152
For these pale shades hosiery, I’d match with the following attire:
Top:    White muscle tee with grey trims
Bottom:    Pale blue linen berms (doublerolled up)
Footwear:    Wakai/Flips Bare Pin Stripe Denim boat shoes

Darker shade hosiery consists of the following in my inventory:
Propeds Sheer Support, Tan, Suntan
Propeds Elegant All Sheers, Suntan
Funfit Support Pantyhose, Suntan
Su.Soku Sheer Support Pantyhose, Color 803

For these pale shades hosiery, I’d match with the following attire:
Top:    Red  tee
Bottom:    Khaki berms with fine black dots (doublerolled up)
Footwear:    Wakai/Flips Bare Pin Stripe Denim boat shoes


The idea was to have the hosiery shade complimented with the overall attire.  More will be discussed in the next post so stay tuned!

The Grey Silky Area

Since I started on offskin shades recently, one of the colors which I have not been able to find a good attire match is Grey; a color that's as tricky as why it's not on either extreme side of the black / white spectrum.

For the past few days, I have been rummaging articles, images in Google to find out how color matching with clothing & footwear will make the attire flattering than looking like a dork.

Just chanced upon this site where you can search for attire by hosiery color, location, gender etc:
lookbook.nu

You can simply type in "tights" and hit Search; from there, you can see some filter options.

Tinatin Gurchiani, movie director.  Image credit: Getty Images

One of the classiest look I've found so far for grey pantyhose is from this image.  The shade of the grey matches perfectly with her grey heels and dress color (though most tips say hose color should also match hem of clothing).  Overall blend looks pretty neat.


Here's one picture from Lookbook which I think the hosiery color matches really well with attire.  The shade reminds me of Smoky Pearl from Propeds:

Dressy Look: Grey open-toe pantyhose with open toe shoes and dress.
Image credit: Kimberly Kong via Lookbook.

Oh, here's another, yet classy look on grey pantyhose. Note it's a darker shade which I would associate with Sparrow in Propeds series:

Classy Look: Dark grey pantyhose with black skirt and shoes.
Image credit: Klára N via Lookbook

Blue Touch: Higher denier greys with blue top and bottom combo.
Image credit.  Boots4Boots via Tumblr

Another look to go with grey hose.  Not that I need to wear boots in the hot climate where I live but a little mod sure works:

Country Look: Grey sheers with shorts.
Image Credit: The Street Style via Tumblr

 Here's one with a country touch:












Not forgetting there are also guys in grey hose too!  Although it's not my favourite sheers, I think it's still a good match and bold step out:

Bold Step Out:  Grey opaques with berms.
Image credit: Llorenç M via Lookbook

I'll be sharing some pictures of my grey hoseout soon.  Stay tuned!