Anthing goes - or maybe not

I sometimes wonder if the attractions of modern life are on the wane. The Independent reports:

In olden days, according to Cole Porter, a glimpse of stocking was looked upon as something shocking. Today, however, the garment's main shock value seems to reside in its rarity rather than its ability to titillate.
A new report has suggested that when it comes to a choice of legwear ­ in public at least ­anything other than stockings goes.
The slide of the stocking, which has been under attack since the invention of the pantyhose in 1959, is part of a more general trend, it was claimed. According to the market analyst Mintel, total UK hosiery sales slipped last year to £272m ­ down from £319m in 2002. But stocking sales were worst hit, plummeting 50 per cent ­ from £10m in 2002 to £5m last year, making up just 2 per cent of all hosiery sales.
Once the epitome of big screen glamour, immortalised by movie sirens such as Anne Bancroft as the carnivorous Mrs Robinson in The Graduate, modern generations consider stockings to be quite simply inconvenient.
Younger women it seems are more likely to buy hold-ups or footless tights ...

Not sure that I know what 'hold-ups' are - which probably defines my ignorance of young women today.