What are modern garters like?
My fiance wants to do a garter toss, but I don't wear knee-highs normally, so I don't know what a garter nowadays should look like. I'm familiar with tied ones, but apparently for a garter toss they should be elastic. I've seen some for sale at bridal shops, but they all have lace. What should I use as a basis for making one/is there anywhere I can buy one?
And I know that a lot of women wear lacy underwear, but I find it incredibly uncomfortable, so I have never developed a tolerance to the look. It's going to be humiliating enough to have my underwear on display without it being lace.
Specifically: is there a non-frilly option, i.e. I won't die of embarrassment over how it looks.
I was thinking of taking one of the thread-covered elastic hair bands in white and using that, since he wants elastic. (Isn't elastic uncomfortable if it isn't integral to the sock?)
They are pretty simple to make, just get some 1" wide ribbon of a favorite color or wedding color, and cut two pieces the same length, measure your leg to see how long it needs to be and then add half of what that length is to the total length. Buy some elastic that is 3/4" thick and sew the two pieces of ribbon together and insert the elastic. You can make it so the garter goes around your calf instead of your thigh if you don't want it that high. You can sew on a charm if you would like.
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