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Summary: After leprechauns roll up their pant legs, there is an emphasis on their stockings. Wear stockings for a leprechaun costume with tips from a makeup artist in this free video on making costumes.
"The next part of our costume, we're getting some stockings on. Now there are a couple of different options for you to consider. You can do what I've done and basically what these do is they come up the legs and they join, in an area which I will not exactly show you on camera me getting into them. But keep in mind, the colonialists also wore these all the time. If you're not feeling super masculine about it, if you're a guy out there. If you're a girl you've probably worn stockings before and it's no big deal. These are special St. Paddy's Day stockings. You can see they have nice clovers all around them, which are really cool, and you know adds into the St. Paddy's flare of our costume. Now if this is going too far for you, no problem, there are other options too. Like those really really big long athletic socks you have, the white socks, that go way up your calf. You can also get those. And those will go up to right about here, if you get the really big ones and you can get a similar effect, which is you know a little more modern, a little less traditional, but I highly recommend you consider a good pair of stockings. You can get a good pair of these like in your basic costume stores, your party stores, even some of your general, regular convenience stores are starting to carry these now that St. Paddy's Day, like a lot of other holidays, is ballooned in scope in recent years."
eHow Article: Leprechaun Costumes: Stockings