I really have grown to dislike panty hose but they are sadly a necessary evil for women when dressing up in business or party clothes. What do I hate? Well, for one thing, I am super tall and my legs are disproportionately long even for my height, and I am not wide in the legs, so hose designed for big gals can either be too short and wide or slop at the ankles. Also, the trend to unreinforced toes means that my extra long feet poke through the toe in one wearing. (Many European brands have sized for longer feet, not so in the US. I had pairs of Falke stockings from Germany that never ran into ladders in TEN years of wearing them! I am not kidding. I am lucky to get one wearing from American hose and this is another reason to hate them.)

However, these Hanes fit reasonably well, though still short for my size-eleven feet and they look great. The knit really looks like silk and there are a number of attractive colors that don't start and stop with black or artificial suntan-orange only. The control top helps the muffiny bits on top but if you need "Spanx" (which are what replaced the evilly bad girdle of the olden days) --the top is probably not quite sufficient to smooth you out around the waist. I got some excellent wear out of these until my toe finally did poke a hole in the foot. I'd buy them again. Maybe someday, with women's foot sizes becoming larger than the old average six or seven, they will make longer feet in hose. One can only hope.