JUST TO BE CLEAR we are talking about something that goes around the top of your knee length hiking socks,
not a garter belt. LOL
This
Not this
Yes, this. What the elderly legs seem to show.
As a prepper and a survivalist, I don't care about how things look in an emergency situation. . . only that things work.
If you think sock garters are bad, consider where I promoted the idea of panty hose in a G.H.B. or B.O.B.. Panty hose protect you from leeches in the water.
Also protects you from biting ants, mosqueto bites, no see ums, and many other types of biting flies*.
Panty hose can be used to filter water, or provide an exellent breathable bandage to hold a dressing in place.
Panty hose protects you from a catfish called the Candiru (Vandellia Cirrhosa), which--supposedly--can swim up the urethra and get painfully lodged.
There is a serious school of thought that suggests that this fear of the Candiru fish is unjustified, and that nothing like this ever happened. It seems that these things--if they actully happened--could only happen in certian parts of South America . . . which is where this fish is native to.
Still . . . why tempt fate when pantyhose fixes this concern.
Post SHTF . . . I'd wear a ballerina tu-tu if I believed--at the time--that doing so could save my life.
If you buy pantyhose, go for no-run variety.
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*No protection from horseflies, though. There seem to be these huge, biting flies that have--paradoxically--utterly beautiful eyes. As beautiful as their eyes are, they will bite through a cotton t-shirt and leave a nasty, raised welt that usually becomes infected if you don't disinfect it properly.