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truth be told- I have never read Rabbi Falk’s sefer, but from the previous posts it seems that he holds one must wear stockings, clearly against Rav Moshe. Please explain what I’m missing. The teshuva is in even haezer 4 siman 100 seif 6. Here’s a loose translation: “This that there are men who are makpid that their wives and daughters wear stockings on their legs but are not makpid that the stockings are in a way which makes it impossible to see, that you ask, what difference does it make (meaning what’s the point), because if below the knee is an ervah they don’t help because seeing ervah through glass is assur, and if like the mishnah berurah that they are not an ervah then there’s no need for stockings? The truth is that it’s an extra level of tznius because lihalacha below the knee is not an ervah. But there is a reason for those that are tzinus in this because the materials even in these thin stockings do not allow one to see the leg. The proof to this is that when they are dyed black or white, the leg is not seen, only when they are dyed like the color of the skin. Therefore, in reality, the leg is covered, it just appears that it is not.”