About me
Hi. This is Robin.
I am a business executive, a former journalist, and a martial arts practitioner. I have always loved pantyhose. I founded ActSensuous (http://www.actsensuous.com) in 2001.
I write the ActSensuous blog because I want to be the voice of hope and reason for pantyhose lovers throughout the world. I want to carry the torch for the return of pantyhose to favor in all areas — fashion, entertainment, business, and as a major element of pop culture.
Thanks for reading The ActSensuous Blog.
Hi Robin,
I found an interesting blog created by Jessica, a fellow Canadian from Vancouver B.C. It is devoted to feminine trends including pantyhose. Jessica posted about a Mary Kay convention that she attended where the female consultants of all ages wore skirts and pantyhose as part of a dress code. It is due to the fact that Mary Kay believes that women should look professional and feminine especially when a man respects her for behaving and dressing like a lady. Here is Jessica’s blog along with the Mary Kay post, and youtube video discussing the Mary Kay convention.
http://fantasystockings.com/?page_id=12
http://fantasystockings.com/?p=669
Wow, it’s like she and I are sisters.
Nice find, Brian. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Hopefully there will be some new post soon. Maybe one of these gorgeous girl will do a new photo shoot.
Hi Robin,
thanks for the reply and according to me all the women in the gallery are superb, but Lisa would be my choice. It would be great that you could post more pictures from your customers. Also, you have great legs and it would be great if you would puplish your own pictures. What do you think?
I always try to recruit customers to be our models, but the vast majority of them don’t go for it. As for me, I prefer for the focus to on our customers, but thanks for the compliment.
Hi Robin,
I just had a look of the girls pictures on the gallery of the pantyhose website. Wow, these girls are so nice and sexy and your pantyhose typical to the 80′s reminds me good memories. I remember that my previous girlfriend used to wear that type of pantyhose with no panties and it was such a thrill. The pantyhose touch was so sheer and special. I got a question here. Does the women in that blog still wear there pantyhose with no panties, or they do it only for special occasion? If so, what motivates you as a woman to do so?
Hey Jacques,
Thanks for your comment. All the girls in the gallery of our website except Michelle are actual ActSensuous customers who voluntarily submitted photos of themselves because they love our beautiful and sexy pantyhose. They are not professional models, they aren’t paid by ActSensuous, and it’s their husbands or boyfriends shooting the pictures. They chose to wear ActSensuous pantyhose with nothing on underneath for their own personal reasons, but I would imagine, mostly because that’s pretty much the idea based on our style (completely sheer to waist).
The exception, Michelle, is a professional model in her own right. Even she and her friend, who is a professional photographer, volunteered to do the shoot free to build their own portfolios and because of their conviction about ActSensuous pantyhose.
There are plenty of reasons a woman might choose to wear something under her pantyhose, but probably only one reason why she would choose not to under ours – ActSensuous pantyhose are designed to be very sexy!
Quick quiz: can anyone tell me how the word ‘nylon’ originated?
Here’s the explanation from wikipedia, to be believed or not believed:
In 1940, John W. Eckelberry of DuPont stated that the letters “nyl” were arbitrary and the “on” was copied from the suffixes of other fibers such as cotton and rayon. A later publication by DuPont explained that the name was originally intended to be “No-Run” (“run” meaning “unravel”), but was modified to avoid making such an unjustified claim and to make the word sound better.[8] An apocryphal explanation is that Nylon is a conflation of “New York” and “London”. A humorous backronym is “Now You’ve Lost, Old Nippon” referring to the supposed loss of demand for Japanese silk.
Nice research there, brkev. Thanks for this. Anyone else have anything to add on the subject?
I’d like to compliment another actress who has made a few public comments in support of sheer hosiery. She is Christina Hendricks of ‘Mad Men’ fame. Naturally – this is a great show because it is set in the 1960′s and all the women are wearing nylon hosiery of some sort. Nylons have even been mentioned a few times in dialogue on the show. I remember well that Hendricks said that she LOVED the old fashion styles from that era and that acting on the show gave her a new appreciation for pencil skirts and hosiery that were commonplace in that time. She said that she is wearing hosiery more often in present day. Just wanted to give her some kudos for those comments.
That’s a good comment, libertariangman. I watched three episodes last year, but couldn’t get into it. Maybe I didn’t give it enough of a chance, but I didn’t like or care about a single character, and I thought the whole storyline was just awful. Too bad, because I really wanted to watch that show specifically because of the 1960s-era fashion.
Anyway, it’s good to hear that nylons are sometimes mentioned in dialogue, and that the actress you named has found a new appreciation for hosiery and is now wearing more often because of the show. If you ever read an excerpt from the interview in which she says that, please copy and send it to me. Might be useful in a future blog post. Thanks.
Hi Robin
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The last couple days of hose sightings here in Ottawa and Montreal were very positive. I went to a bar called Brixton’s in downtown Ottawa which is mostly frequented by federal employees, politicians, staffers and reporters who work on Parliament Hill. Most women at the bar were wearing various types of hosiery. About 50% were in various colors of hosiery (sheer, opaque, etc.), while another 50% were in sheer nude hose
When I was in downtown Montreal yesterday, there were lots of women in various hosiery ranging from sheer nude and colored to opaque and designer hose. A couple of sightings that caught my eye involved a young Asian woman at Centre Eaton wearing sheer white polka dot hose, and a young East Indian woman at the McGill metro station wearing nude hose with open toe heels proving that all this talk of pantyhose with open toe shoes as unfashionable is just complete falsehood. I also noticed an advertisement in one of the transit shelters for Secret sheer black so a least advertising for hose is alive. Montreal is a very fashionable and style-conscious city in Canada especially when it comes to women wearing hosiery.
To me, its not just the Kate Middleton effect that nude hose is popular again. I think sheer nude hose has always been alive and well here in Canada, since Canadians have a different culture of dressing than Americans. Those hose sightings would probably put a smile on your face like it did with me in the last couple days.
Sounds like it. Thanks, Brian.
Hi Brian,
I am very happy to have a Canadian writing in that blog. I work in Montréal and I am on the road and cover the Ottawa region. To be honest with you, I found out that I see much more nylon in Ottawa than Montréal. I can see nylon mostly downtown, but for the rest it is rare. I will definitely visit this bar on my next trip to Ottawa and who knows maybe meet you.
Jacques
P.s. Write me intuitivejack@hotmail.com
Hi, Jacques. Thanks for your comment.
Robin
Hi Jacques,
Welcome to the ActSensuous blog. It’s great to have another fellow Canadian to discuss hosiery on the blog. You are absolutely correct. There are more women here in Ottawa that wear hose than Montreal since most of them are federal employees that work downtown. When I visit Montreal on occasion, I do see women wear hose but mostly in downtown during the work days and rush hour. I would probably see some women wear hose outside the work days maybe if they are going to a bar, club, or party. It’s the same thing here in Ottawa as well.
At least its great seeing hosiery alive and well in those two cities.
P.S. Thanks for the email addy. I will write to you later.
I haven’t been on here in quite awhile, but for the last three days, there have been lots of hose sightings in my city of Ottawa, Canada. On Wednesday when I was running errands downtown, there were lots of women wearing a variety of hosiery including two young women wearing sheer nude hosiery on their lunch break.
The following day when I was on the bus, there were two women sitting together with one wearing designer hosiery in a mixture of sheer black and nude and the other, who was with her boyfriend, wearing nude. However, I thought they were together but were not. The women with the designer hose got off the bus first before the other woman first I saw a couple of women in hosiery. Later at my familiar restaurant, I spotted two women at the bar wearing black hose. One that was wearing black opaques and the other was wearing sheer black hose.
Friday night while I was shopping at my mall, I was passing by a hosiery and socks boutique called Fancy Sox where two women, who are the employees at the boutique were wearing black opaques and sheer nude as part of the store’s dress code. It looks like that hose is alive and well in my city. Great to see lots of hose sightings for three days in my city. I am sure Robin would be proud to hear about that.
Thanks for your comment, Brian. And, yes, I love hearing about cases in which our readers encounter women wearing pantyhose in their everyday lives. It’s wonderful to see more and more women coming (back) to their senses and dressing more femininely.
Robin, Brian shared your blogsite with me, and I read with interest and smiles that someone else feels as strongly about the bare legs movement as I do! I suspect we are on the losing side of the war, but ya gotta stand up and speak out, and you are. Thanks for doing so. Thanks also for reading and commenting about my blog, The Bright Lights of Muleshoe.
Hi Alice,
Thanks for saying hello. I loved your post, “Bare Legs and Bad Choices.” I thought it was well-conceived and smartly written. I like how you criticized the whole bare legs culture of today, and I particularly appreciated your calling out the female school teachers who showed such a lack of professionalism and good taste by going bare-legged during an awards presentation for students.
It’s not just sad but, in my mind, senseless and wrong that those in a position to set a good example for young people, especially teachers, lack the most basic of values themselves. No surprise then that young people with jobs don’t demonstrate the repect or responsibility that is called for.
Witnessing how our values as a society have plummeted over the years, I have sometimes found myself having to fight off disgust and anger, which sometimes shows in my blog posts. Thus, I’ve made a conscious effort to keep The ActSensuous Blog upbeat, positive and, hopefully, entertaining. There are so many cases of everyday professionals, public officials, and celebrity entertainers who demonstrate such poor taste in the way they dress (not wearing pantyhose), and I try to point that out in a light and comical way, while going overboard to recognize and praise the few who truly “get it” (wearing pantyhose) and take a stand for dressing with class, elegance and glamour.
To me, it is so rewarding to see some of the veteran actresses/entertainers/models, such as Julianna Margulies, Meredith Vieira, and Christie Brinkley always dress beautifully, including always wearing pantyhose. Likewise, I find it heartwarming when a new generation of young entertainers, such as Katy Perry and Lady Gaga, are setting a good example among their young fans all over the world. So I see hope for the future.
Since I actually run a pantyhose company, I feel it is important that I keep my blog upbeat and positive, but you, Alice, can blast away at this ugly and awful bare legs culture. Thanks, again, for doing just that.
Take care.
Robin
Hi Alice,
I want to thank you for allowing me to refer The ActSensuous Blog to you, and for reading my post on your blog with great interest. I can’t stand the bare legs movement myself. Some women don’t even have the legs to pull it off whether if its white, pasty, and blotchy, and when the weather is cold or snowing in the winter especially wearing them with open toe shoes in the snow. How tacky is that?
I feel that women in the USA these days are dressing very sloppy and unprofessional, and are influenced by fashion industry and media especially from Hollywood dictating their fashion choices, and telling them what is in and out of fashion.
Although it may be a lost cause in the USA, at least in other parts of the world mainly in parts of Western and Eastern Europe and Asia, women are dressed very professional, classy, and feminine. They even wear pantyhose regardless if its a casual or formal engagements. It also has to do with their country’s tradition and culture as opposed to what’s in and out of fashion from the fashion industry and the media in the USA and parts of the western world.
I just wish American women could dress more classy, elegant, and feminine especially when it comes to wearing pantyhose, but it’s going to be a challenge.
Some women will do almost anything to avoid hosiery. There is a woman who works in my office who goes bare legged all year long no matter the weather. In winter – she wears high boots with her dresses but no hose. Her legs aren’t that great to begin with – and she doesn’t look good without hose. This is a woman who simply NEVER wears and probably wouldn’t even know where to buy hose if she was forced to wear them sometime. Another thought – many women do not even wear SOCKS with their jeans or pants. It’s WINTER! They’ll wear nice shoes with the pants but NO socks or hose. It’s 30 degrees out. Is this less uncomfortable for them than wearing pantyhose? What is it with these women who can’t even wear socks or hose in the winter?
Who can understand anything about a woman anyway? The bimbo.
Hi libertarianqman
Very unfortunate and unprofessional on the part of your co-worker going bare legged for all seasons especially in the winter. I guess she must be a “Bear” legs movement follower with a Sex and the City mindset instilled in her. I wouldn’t worry about it that much.
I am sure there are some women at your workplace that wear pantyhose unless they dress like your co-worker.
Occasionally I’ll post a ‘hose sighting’ when i see a woman adorned in lovely hosiery. Over the past few years the newswomen on TV have abandoned hosiery in droves – so when I see someone resisting this trend – it is worthy of comment. Today on CNBC – Julia Boorstein was almost certainly wearing nude hosiery. As she was speaking – the camera panned back to reveal nice legs and hosiery. Her dress was knee length or slightly higher. VERY NICE JULIA!!
And don’t think I and our readers don’t appreciate your doing that, libertariangman. Thanks for this, and for all your support this year. Wishing you a Happy 2012 and then some.
I just wanted to say thank you and keep up the good work. Most woman that I have dated hate any form of pantyhose. Although I dated an ex stripper that was very open minded and understanding
And she would wear them and knew how to pose and position her legs and just made me go wild. We would be in public and she would flash me and tease me showing me her nylon clad legs or reinforced toe my favorite and sometimes I couldn’t wait to get home I was so turned on. She told me one night if you want me to wear them so bad why don’t you wear them and she said she would also wear them but only if I did too so needless to say I did and it was incredible sex and it felt so good as our nylon clad legs rubbed each other. I was really really turned on and she actually wanted us both in them several times after. That’s what an understanding woman and pantyhose can do provide some hot sex and I’m great full for brave woman like you wish there were more of you
After reading this…I do not know what to think….
When it comes to wearing pantyhose… I want to be taken seriously plus i want to be fully accepted as a wearer….
Yes… Pantyhose can be magical and fun…. But this posting is mostly of a sexual nature….
I do not want to be negative..But all this can give off a bad impression of pantyhose…
Most of all i want women and men…Old and young to discover and enjoy wearing pantyhose…..
From a very happy and pleased ActSensuous wearer…
Take Care
Carl
Hi Carl,
Thanks for your response to Sid’s comment. Certainly, you’ve been a longtime contributor to The ActSensuous Blog, and I respect and appreciate your take on things. The thing about blogs is almost anything goes, including others’ comments. There’s only two situations in which I would edit the comments of our readers: If their sentence structure makes it difficult to read and comprehend, or if it is distasteful or too sexually explicit.
Before deciding to publish it, I read Sid’s comment several times and found that it was just a guy’s honest expression of the power a woman in pantyhose holds, the positive way in which it affects him, and the thrill he got from the experience of wearing pantyhose with his girlfriend.
During its 10 years in business, I’ve always steered ActSensuous along a course that is classy and elegant. But I am wise enough to know that, at its very core, pantyhose are extremely sexy. As you know, I’ve designed ActSensuous pantyhose to be among the sexiest available anywhere on the planet.
Again, Carl, I appreciate all your contributions to my blog and your support as our customer. Trust me. I’ll always keep ActSensuous classy and elegant, but we can’t escape how sexy they are, too.
Happy New Year!
Robin
Hi Robin,
I really enjoyed reading your posts over the last few months. Its great to see that women are still wearing pantyhose through the sales and encouragement of the Act Sensuous blog, and praising those such as Kate Middleton and various celebrities who still have the class, decency, and elegance to wear pantyhose with their outfits, and have not joined the Bare (or as you say “Bear”) Legs Movement or as I abbreviated it “BLM”.
Hopefully if the pantyhose trend keeps, we will see more women including celebrities wear them at various events, and not be dictated nor criticized by those so called fashion experts, media, and BLM followers that hose is old fashioned, and out of style.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Keep up the good work in those sales of pantyhose encouraging women to wear them not just to make men proud, but to make themselves look proud in their neatness and appearance.
Brian
Hi Brian,
I’d like to thank you for being a loyal reader of this blog and for leaving very well-conceived and thoughtful comments on some of the posts. It’s nice to know my writing means something to some people. Thanks for your support.
Best wishes to you and yours for a Merry Christmas, and much happiness in 2012 and always.
Robin
Robin,
I can’t agree with you more. I don’t know why women perfer bare legs over pantyhose.. it also seems that heels went out of style for a while. Don’t women understand that pantyhose and a nice pair of heels make men go wild???
Hopefully things will turn around and hopefully they will choose your pantyhose. I do my best to get the word out about your products, they are great!
JC
Hi, JC. Glad you found my blog, and thank you for leaving a comment. You have always been a big promoter of ActSensuous, but you also have recruited models for the gallery of our website. What would we do without you? Take care and keep in touch. Robin
Hey Robin – I just discovered your blog. It’s excellent. Christina Applegate was another big time pantyhose wearer in the 1990′s. I can’t bear to watch her new show this Fall as I fear she has joined the bare-legged brigade that infects American society these days.
Hi, libertariangman — Thank you for your commment. I agree with you. I used to love Christina Applegate, especially on “Married with Children,” because she never missed an opportunity to wear short dresses, high heels and pantyhose. And she looked great. I thought she had a lot of class and femininity, but you’re right — she has digressed recently. I was so disgusted from watching the promos of her new show that I haven’t tuned in to a single episode. It appears that she’s really let herself go. She looks awful, and from the promos of that show, I just don’t like her attitude. I realize that I shouldn’t judge that show when I haven’t watched it, but if the promos were the best the show has to offer, I have ZERO interest in seeing it. Too bad. I hope she bounces back and gets classy again because she does have talent and she is funny. Thanks for finding my blog, and please feel free to comment again. Robin
Hi Robin,
I want to say that I enjoy reading and commenting on your blogs from time to time. It’s great to see more women are starting to wear pantyhose instead of bare legs. Yes, I agree we still have a ways to go but I have faith that one day, pantyhose will be back in full force.
Thanks, R.M. I’ve enjoyed reading your comments and am looking forward to your continued involvement.
Robin
very nice job–it would make a lot of marriages go further- men are beside themselves
Agreed, Lowden. Thanks for your comment.
Robin
Hi Robin!,
By the way, great profile pic! Well anywho, the reasons for this partcular email are a couple: 1- Thanks for your blog! It’s nice to see a woman on the side of us pantyhose lovers, for once! 2- I have a phrase that I use on occasion, that you may be able to get a lot more “millage” out of than I can, since you have a lot of followers: “Pantyhose are make-up for the legs!” There are so many women, and probably some men, who wouldn’t be “caught dead”, for lack of a better way of putting it, in public without facial make-up, but will go almost anywhere with their legs, blemishes and all, bare for the world to see.
Hi, Garry. Thanks for your comment and welcome to The ActSensuous blog.
Also, thank you for the compliment.
Your thinking is correct — “Pantyhose are makeup for the legs” — but someone already came up with your slogan a long time ago. Still, you get props for thinking of it, too.
Feel free to comment on any of my posts that so inspire you.
Best wishes,
Robin
I am so glad pantyhose are making a comeback, finally the polished and finished look on women is back
Hi Jeff,
Thank you for your comment.
I think there’s a long way to go, but it should be a fun ride getting there. It’s very encouraging to see a return to the beauty, class and elegance that wearing pantyhose brings — especially among so many young women today.
Robin