A Theater-Going Habit

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She Who Knows her Hose...

She Who Knows her Hose...

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Jul 28, 2023
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Hose? Like hosiery. The internet is not giving me an answer I like. How do you spell hōz, like the legs/L’eggs kind?

Did you know that they don’t come in an egg anymore? My dad picked up an egg of Sheer Energy in off-white for my mom from the People’s Drug in the Uptown Shopping Center one Sunday after church. It was on a display near the front of the store. I got to keep the egg. I kept my small collection of clip-on earrings in it.

A surprising number of actors use Capezio’s Mocha color tights. There are other brands that may have a wider range of colors in one end of the spectrum or another. But all Broadway actors know their Capezio color and request it first of all, because they do not tend to run.

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