Don't get caught in black fishnets at work

SCRIPPS HOWARD
Thanks in part to the success of the movie "Chicago" and all its sexy gams, fishnet stockings are the look for legs this fall.
But beware.
Before pulling on a pair, choose the style carefully. Nets for a night on the town are not the same ones deemed appropriate in most offices.
It helps to understand a bit about the style first.
Fishnets were the siren call of the 1940s and '50s, when pinups and burlesque girls favored them.
"It was really kind of a prurient fashion," says Kevin Jones of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.
Since then, the stockings have been recycled every decade or so.
The '60s saw fishnets break into the mainstream, in pastel colors, paired with miniskirts. In the '70s, glam rockers donned them.
High fashion types rediscovered them again in the '80s, followed by goth acolytes in the '90s, and finally back to the mainstream today.
The key to fishnets in the office is toning down their sex appeal.
Suzanne Libfraind of Wardrobe Consulting in Raleigh, N.C., suggests pairing fishnets in neutral colors, such as beige, with conservative two-toned shoes, such a brown/beige pump.
"It would be very pretty and very subtle," Libfraind says. "Do not do black for the office."