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This is one of life's more pleasurable things. So soft, so delicate, clinging like a second skin. There is something wonderful about slowly rolling a new stocking up your leg. It must be done slowly. Like all pleasures, it's a moment to be savoured. By Sylvia Silk

This is one of life's more pleasurable things. So soft, so delicate, clinging like a second skin. There is something wonderful about slowly rolling a new stocking up your leg. It must be done slowly. Like all pleasures, it's a moment to be savoured.

Transvestism thrives on the differences between men's and women's clothing - that's obvious. The difference between a man's sock and a woman's stocking is especially satisfying. The sock is coarse, the stocking sheer. The sock doesn't advance beyond the shin, the stocking clings intimately to our thighs.

A sock is something you use - with a stocking it's closer to a relationship. You have to treat her gently (I make no apology for calling a stocking 'her' - she's too much like a lover to be an 'it'). You need to smooth any raggedness from your nails. She should be caressed, not tugged.

There is something sensuous, too, in fastening the suspenders. Position them carefully. They must grip the welt, not the sheer fabric beneath. Slide the suspender gently into place, feel it take the tension. I love that moment.

The contrast between the female suspender belt and the nearest male equivalent is at least as striking as that between stocking and sock. If I were making a film, and wished to make a male character look entirely ridiculous, I would deprive him of trousers and put him in sock suspenders. They must be the least flattering garment ever devised - it's no wonder that so few men wear them.

If, making that film, I wanted to make my leading lady look as sexy as possible (in a bedroom sort of way) I can't think of anything better than suspernders. Let her lose her skirt - or trousers - to reveal stocking tops and suspenders. It can't fail.

Thirty years after stockings and suspenders were 'replaced' by tights, a lot of women still have them in their lingerie drawers - and on their legs. The appeal of the stocking continues, and not just for transvestites. Indeed, very few transvestites could squeeze themselves into the tiny suspender belts made for teenage girls long after their mothers - or grandmothers - swapped stockings for tights.