Where did you go?

I'll bet that this is a very frequent occurrence.  Someone starts a blog and keeps it going for a time, then suddenly drops off, leaving the followers wondering what happened to the author.  In some cases, blogs end up abandoned or eventually pulled by the hosting service as an inactive account (hard disk space is cheap, but a little bit added up over time makes a difference).

I had actually considered abandoning this blog.  Why?  Because I felt I had pretty much achieved my objective.  I wanted to write a diary about my tights experience starting from the very beginning, and comb through all of my memories about it as a therapeutic exercise.  It actually helped, quite a bit in fact. It was certainly a trip down memory lane. I put myself in touch with some memories I had left dormant for several decades. But it was also enjoyable too. I can look back on myself with amusement of how I struggled but also how I enjoyed wearing tights and the way I developed the interest over time.  When I was a pre-teen, I never ever thought that I'd find myself still wearing tights several decades later, not to mention having several super stretchy neck to toe Lycra unitards, but also come to see tights "opened up" as an athletic garment for men (outside of ballet).

If I were to abandon it, all of this work would be lost.  A site like this won't likely be captured by the "Way Back Machine" website (the "Internet Archive"), and in fact I checked--it isn't there.  So it would be a good idea to try keeping it alive.

I don't have a lot of followers... 8 in total as of this writing.  Only a few have written to me, expressing gratitude or sharing similar perspectives. But it's amazing to see how I seem to get hundreds of views every week, with a grand total of over 26,000 page view hits since the blog began under a year ago. Well, I do hope it never goes viral--that would be embarrassing! But I do have compassion for those people who have gone down a similar road as me, and how my writings may help them in one way or another.

So my intention is to keep it going.


On a side note, it's interesting to see what else is out there, in terms of guys writing about the interest of wearing tights. While the down economy put a major hole in the "male tights" garment category (the major European hosiery maker Gerbe has dropped all of their men's tights products), there are still plenty of guys buying them from other makers.  And a number of blogs continue to push forward, documenting the interest and even posting reviews of tights.

Do a simple "hosiery for men" Google search and immediately you will find hits for sites that sell tights for men, as well as blogs about the subject. Two blogs I immediately noticed are "Hosiery for Men" and "Tights for Men" (I won't link them here for privacy reasons, but do a search and you'll find them).  While the former is quite active with tons of reviews of tights made for both women and men, the latter appears to be inactive but having amassed quite a lot of content. I was actually impressed with the tights reviews published on both sites.  Lots of helpful tips in finding good quality tights for yourself, whether you're a man or a woman.  :-)