Possible Clues:

• Acrobat's wear
• Woman's garment
• Common circus wear
• Perhaps drunks are never so loose but they are so wearing
• Hose worn by dancers
• Female garment
• Hose near sewer opening
• The nights a woman goes out in clingy attire
• Legless and short? They're just the opposite
• Start to hunt through odds and ends of things for a garment