Thigh-high stockings in a luscious silk/wool blend yarn with lace snakes meandering down the back seam–the next best thing to having real, live snakes sneaking out of your skirts. These can be clipped up using metal old-style garters (don’t bother with the cheap plastic ones), or you can rig up something fun with kids’ mitten clips.

Photo by Al Parrish, courtesy of F+W Publications, Inc.