This was on a fashion web site. and I see more and more hose on runways lately.
Derek Lam Shows Minis and Covered Legs
By SAMANTHA CRITCHELL – 11 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes what you don't see is the sexiest thing at a fashion show. Derek Lam unveiled his spring collection Sunday at a cavernous space near the Hudson River with models wearing black pantyhose with seams down the back.
It's probably the first time pantyhose — not tights — have been on a New York Fashion Week runway in years. But the dark covered leg added a bit of sultry mystery to all the satin, sirenlike looks.
Lam seems to like a short hemline, turning out some of the tiniest skirts and shorts of the season. He balanced them well, though, with subtle colors and looser shapes on top; a leopard-print, shirt-style minidress was a great example.
He also offered a few daytime outfits that would meet office dress codes, including a navy short-sleeve safari jacket that looked smart with the billowy, blousoned sleeves of a gray spot-print blouse peeking out.
There also were gray-and-white shorts — not the super-short kind — that were elegant enough to pass as a part of a cocktail party outfit, especially with a black shirt jacket in lacquered sateen. The print on the shorts was ikat, a weaving technique native to Uzbekistan that Oscar de la Renta and others have taken a liking to for print patterns in recent years.
For evening there was a noteworthy group of outfits with navy, red and white beading in a large floral pattern that didn't look like anything this increasingly jaded fashion crowd is getting more than halfway through the spring previews.
A white georgette scarf dress was reminiscent of some of the other 1930s-inspired looks already offered by others designers, but Lam's was lovely and glamorous nonetheless.
