These are the days when you wish your bed was already made

[susie_flo]

I wish it was Sunday.  This has potential to be a terrible week at work...   people really ain't no good.  And the coffee beans have run out :-(

Still....  today, under my drearily demure office wear (M&S Autograph... a festival of greyness) I am wearing a pair of lace up fishnet stockings that have been languishing unopened for months.  Apart from making me feel a little more jaunty on this Monday morning slog to work, it has started me wondering about the science of fishnets...  

Given that they are nothing but holes held together by bits of string, how on earth do they manage to make your legs feel so warm?

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

The science of fishnets. Air is actually better at insulating than, say, cotton -- it doesn't conduct heat. So if you could just wear a layer of air next to your skin you would be really warm. However, going naked doesn't work to keep you warm because air convects heat -- that is, it drifts about so the warm air next to your body drifts off somewhere else and is replaced by cold air. Therefore in practice, you need something to hold the air in place. Wearing fishnets under something should, in theory, be quite warm.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! What would I do without you.

So in theory, we'd be better off wearing fishnets in winter than thick opaques...?

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

That's the reason men wear string vests. Not something you want to come back into fashion surely?

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Ew - absolutely not! It makes me think of Eddie Yates...