I am a fan of stockings and not pantyhose.  Perhaps I am just showing my age.  When I reached puberty, pantyhose was just bginning to make inroads in the marketplace, just beginning to displace stockings.  But I believe there are important esthetic reasons for my prefference.

Stockings held up with a garter belt (or suspenders for those of you in the UK) so nicely frame a girl's pussy or a gurl's cock and balls.  Just like a picture frame focusing one's attention on a painting, and accentuating some aspect of that painting, they help focus attention on the wonderful center of lust and desire.  Even if that center is covered by panties, we can imagine what is inside, epecially if, in the case of gurls, there is a nice panty bulge.  A panty bulge by itself if just a panty bulge; a panty bulge framed by stockings and garter belt is a work of art.

Even from the rear this delightful framing remains, with the (albeit plainer) rear of the garter belt and stockings so nicely framing the ass. Those rear straps, perhaps bowed out a bit, frame and accentuate the two delicious ass globes and the hidden asshole in the crack between them.  It is a scene just made for bending her at the hips, bringing her defenseless pussy into view in the framed picture, ready to be rudely penetrated.  Or, you can leave her (girl or gurl) more upright and bury your rod in her little rosebud asshole.

In fact, stockings and the curved framing of the garter straps and belt can almost look like the pillars and vaulted ceiling of a cathedral--in this case the cathedral of lust.  And, in the case of us gurls, a hard cock held firmly upright with the balls rounded out to eash side by tight panties is reminiscent of a cross on the altar of the cathedral.  What can be lovelier and more arousing than that?

In addition, the visual design of the garter belt (shape, color, fabric and lace choices), especially if it matches the design of the panties and bra, adds to the overall unified feminine and alluring nature of the outfit.

Finally, the very fine, thin nature of the fabric of the stockings seems in keeping with the very delicate nature of the girls or gurls of our sexual imagination.  If they are disarranged or torn in the frenzy of sexual encounter, it seems only a fitting result from the encounter of the delicate female with the violence of fucking.  Or, to take it further, a run or tear in the stockings is like a torn hymen as a girl loses her ephemeral virginity.

Finally, they do not get in the way; one can keep them on while having sex. Ah, what joy there is in driving one's codk into the pussy of a woman wearing stockings and a garter belt.  Not only do the stockings and garter belt frame her pussy, they frame the whole action of fucking.  You ca even choose to drop your load of cum on the stockings or garter belt (whether her's or uour own if your are dressed and playing with yourself).  It's like offering a thank-you note for the privilege and pleasure of having been allowed to fuck.

Pantyhose, on the other hand, offers none of these esthetic qualities.  Pantyhose is all about parcticality.  No hooks to fasten.  Stronger, thicker threads that stand up better to daily activity witout runs or tears.  But not pretty; they just rise from the ffeet to the waist without variation (unless the panty part is more solid.  They offer nothing to concentrate one's view to the pussy or cock and balls.  Worse, that line of stitching from crotch to waist does not frame anything, it just interferes with the picture.  For those of you with an interest in decorative architeture, the difference is like that between a 6-panel solid wood door and a hollow-core veneer slab door.  The former is intersting; the latter, although cheaper and easier to clean, is just borking.  That is the essence of pantyhose: boring.  To be sure, pantyhose is often shinier than stockings, but stockings an be shiny, too. So the difference is not large.  And, finally, unless you can tear them apart (although, remember, the fabric tends to have industrial strength!) you cannot have sex unless you pull them down or take them off.

So I firmly believe that a well-dressed woman or gurl should stick to wearing stockings rather than panyhose.