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"   Photo: Getty Images  The first thing to get out of the way when discussing Kate Middelton&amp;#039;s apparent penchant for pantyhose (cringe-worthy, we know) is that she has to wear them. The Royal Family has a sort of dress code forbidding bare legs. It&amp;#039;s also anti-open toe shoes. But the rest of world doesn&amp;#039;t have to wear sheer panty hose, so why are they? The day after the Royal Wedding, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, was spotted strolling across the Palace lawns in L.K. Bennett&amp;#039;s black patent leather &amp;quot;Greta&amp;quot; wedges. It wasn&amp;#039;t long before the shoes were flying off the shelves in the UK. Soon after, they were re-issued and re-named &amp;quot;The Kate.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s now a waiting list\u2014and that&amp;#039;s just one of the near hundred shoes, dresses and bags that have sold out thanks to Kate. Unfortunately, pantyhose have landed smack in the middle of a list that includes Issa dresses and Whistles tops. Now called &amp;quot;new tights,&amp;quot; sheer stockings have come a long way from their 80\u2032s predecessors. Unlike the hard-to-match colors of the past, stockings like Kate&amp;#039;s are transparent. And one of the best selling brands according to the Daily Mail, Pretty Polly&amp;#039;s Naturals, has a cooling effect. Coupled with Kate&amp;#039;s unintentional endorsement, WWD reports that the sale of sheer hosiery has increased by more than 85% over the last year and wonders if the States will fall under a similar spell. While the sheer stocking revival isn&amp;#039;t expected to hit the US until fall, Mischa Barton, Sarah Jessica Parker and Hayden Panettiere are a few celebs who have already picked up the trend. Will you? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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