I wore stockings semi-regularly in the transition weather between tights and bare legs, but I don't usually have to wear them, so I don't! I think the last time was actually in May for an event.

And yes, I do see a lot of women in suits and nylons on their way to their (apparently) fancy Wall Street jobs.

Do big-city professionals wear them to work any more (Jesse, bon bon, Vortex)?

Wearing them today, wore them yesterday, wore them on Tuesday. That's fairly frequent for me. But if I'm seeing a client or going to court (or a deposition, something like that), I wear a suit, and all my suits are skirt suits (pants suits are just too complicated to fit and maintain). So a couple times a month. If I'm just wearing a skirt to work in warm weather, it's bare-legged.

Flea, I wore them at the F2F!

There are advantages to hose, as I see it-- I generally don't have to have shaved legs, and my lack of tan is less noticeable.

In a related matter, is there any rule of thumb on how long hair must be before it's waxable? I mean, like for a salon-type job? I could buy a package of do-it-yourself stuff, but it might be nice to have somebody else worry about what to do with the icky used wax, et cetera.

My main problem with nylons isn't the wearing, it's the maintenance -- if they don't run, they have to be hand-washed, etc.

There are advantages to hose, as I see it-- I generally don't have to have shaved legs, and my lack of tan is less noticeable.

This is key for me, as is the fact that I have some noticeable scars on my legs still.

Grey's: Maybe they originally planned for him to recur but negotiations broke down and they took the opportunity to not have him back.

Oh Top Chef, I so adore you.

Seeing the top 4 pitted against each other really drove home how much better the S1 casting was -- seriously, who'd have thunk at the time that I'd ever be thinking "Wow...Stephen seems so mature compared to these people!"?

I do think, wrt the cooking, that S2 shot themselves in the foot making Ilan cook the duck course. Not that Elia has ever made a decision for the good of the team in her life, but she really should have given him the scallops and taken the duck herself. She's trained in French cuisine, we know she can cook poultry. So that was just dumb on their part.

I'd forgotten just how freaking whiny Dave is. Dude, if you want to cook with local flavors, make a case for it! If you don't even bother to say "I think the idea of sticking to one cuisine is a good one, but since we're in Miami, let's go with a Latin/Carribean theme instead," you don't get to spend the rest of the challenge bitching and moaning about how you were forced to cook outside of your comfort zone and work with flavors you don't normally use. Cry me a fucking river.