I think it was my Aunt Joan (God Mother) that unknowingly got me interested in and admiring stockings. In the later 70' my parents took it in turns with their friends to host a little party every month, I was just 18 and Aunt Joan would have been in her mid-40's. The parties had Mum, Dad, 2 other couples and my Aunt Joan, as far as I remember she has always been single even to this day. She would be 90 odd now.
I was relegated to the floor or low foot stool and the older adults had the sofa, chairs and dining chairs. The women were always dressed up short skirts most times (fashion of the day) and all wore tights and stockings at times, special occasions etc. And if I sat in right position I could glimpse lots of leg and more. But Aunt Joan was always in stockings.
Aunt Joan was always the best dressed. Always the latest fashion and she spent more on clothes. Also always wore perfume which was always nicer than the others (or that's how it seemed to me).
One week one of my parent's female friends was wearing stockings and I got in a position on the floor to see up her skirt, it was later in the evening and after she had a few drinks and her legs were repositioning quite often, I was moving to get best view and had a great display. I turned and looked around and my Aunt Joan was looking straight at me, she glanced at where I had been looking, I remember thinking shit I am in trouble now and scarpered to another room. Red faced.
Nothing got said and the following week the party was at Aunt Joan's so I avoided that one, But the following week from that I was back on the floor looking but more carefully. Aunt Joan came in and sat in one of the taller dining chairs and I remember one of the men saying swap and she could sit on the sofa but she said she was OK. She was in the corner and I was by the opposite wall, she was turned 45 degrees to me and could see her stocking top and her mid-thigh and from that position I was the only one who could easily see. Again she had seen me looking but this time moved a little and her skirt moved back revealing more stocking top. In the end I could see a strap, she turned to face me, and opened her legs slightly so I saw her white panties, she glanced at me and knew I was looking and we were both blushing.