Editing Fishnet (section)

== History ==
During the 1920s, fishnets emerged as a more alternative trend in the U.S. and were favored by women like [[Showgirl|showgirls]], in large part due to the fact that fishnets were more revealing than typical regular stockings of the day.

Fishnets later emerged as an eminent fashion staple in the post-war pin-up and print-porn world with models like [[Bettie Page]], [[Jane Russell]] and [[Marilyn Monroe]] frequently appearing in fishnets.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jane Russell: 'She's got it!'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/8354999/Jane-Russell-Shes-got-it.html|access-date=2021-06-18|website=The Daily Telegraph|date=March 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Marilyn Monroe in the Black Sitting|url=http://www.marilynmonroe.ca/camera/galleries/black/|access-date=2021-06-18|website=marilynmonroe.ca}}</ref>

In the 1970s and 1980s, the punk counterculture's fashion aesthetic included fishnets, often worn extra torn up with huge holes on the stockings or shredded up, as a reference to [[BDSM]] subculture.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fashions of the punk era|url=http://www.phlem.org.uk/|access-date=2021-06-18|website=phlem.org.uk|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200448/http://www.phlem.org.uk/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Leblanc|first=Lauraine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m8Lz1S9v4d8C&q=female+punks+subversive+sexuality+fishnets&pg=PA204|title=Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture|date=1999|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-2651-5|language=en}}</ref>