My friend Joan does it, too, so you know it’s very common,” Wilson continued, as millions of moms nodded in agreement behind her. Finally, someone determined that Christy should go home early, and I helped her gather her belongings and pack her book bag while she waited for her mom to pick her up.

If your piece of hosiery has runs in the foot, you could, instead, cut a section of nylon from the leg, stitch one end, turn it inside out, and stuff the resulting bag. Which is what I was saying the following Sunday when, five minutes before church was to begin, my mother found me standing in my bedroom, holding the L’eggs in my outstretched hand. To create the doll’s noggin, simply cut off one foot of the pair of hose (do so at a point about five or six inches from the toe), and pack it with the fiberfill.I’ve felt warmer wearing these tights under a dress and sweater than I have been in thicker leggings and a sweatshirt. Always run your needle through the top of the head and push it back out the same way after you’ve completed any facial feature. Let your imagination be your guide, but remember to exclude tiny beads or buttons (or anything that could be swallowed) if your doll will be used as a gift for a young child. And, more than anything else, we lived for those moments when a young lady, on noticing the exquisite pattern in our hair, would ask us some variant of the question that black people usually hate: "Can I touch your hair? Moms seem pretty adamant about this, so we’re just going to have to take their word for it—wearing pantyhose under jeans is normal, and if you’re not doing it already, you ought to give it a try.

Cut two 5-by-7-inch rectangles, pin them together, and sew a half-inch seam along all four edges (be sure to leave a centered two-inch opening in one of the five-inch sides). The fascination with black people's hair, and the politics of beauty and acceptability that precede it, is well-worn territory and it is the hair of black women that has garnered the lion's share of attention. In the school's hallways, a chorus of hairbrushes on black male scalps was the sound of virility, each stroke a bit of a mating dance to the young ladies that passed by. The Mom Edit may use affiliate marketing links and receive a commission based upon sales made from them. When my mom told me about the “unbreakable” tight I was in disbelief — but when she discovers something good in the fashion world, it’s usually the real freakin’ deal.

mailer, I had a package with my tights, and a smaller package with the sample material encouraging me to try and tear them. On normal days, before we headed home, he would pull us into a group bear hug, and our cheeks would smash into his squishy, fatherly gut. The mouth is formed by inserting a threaded needle through the top of the head, as indicated previously, and bringing it out at a corner of the grin (or frown) to be.