Your Honor, my nylons are falling

Trial story II. So Wednesday night was round two of the trial competition. This one was later than the other, but that worked out well for reasons I may relate later. Anyway, I was wearing what I thought were my best pair of nylons. I'd had a little trouble with them before, but as long as I wasn't walking in them they seemed to do fine. And of course I stepped into the bathroom and pulled them up to my neck (it seemed) right before. But to no avail. They kept slipping. Worse and worse. I needed another private break to fix them, but I was in the middle of trial. So I just tugged a little here and there. Finally, during my very final rebuttal after closing arguments they were going. By the time I finished, they were down to my knees. Note: my skirt only comes about 1 1/2 inches below my knees. I hobbled to my chair and thought how grateful I was that at least it was over at this point.
Well, after the trial - since this is competition to teach us - the judges (an student in the trial program and a local attorney) give us critiques. For half an hour we heard the usual type things. Then the judge ended with this: When he was a student one of his teachers would video tape them so they could see their bad mannerisms. And one thing many students would do was stand up and hitch up their pants. You know how some people do when they stand up. The teacher called it the "John Wayne move". I'm thinking nothing of it at this point - with my stomach I do not have this nervous habit. Then he says, it's bad enough when men do this, but when women do it (he looks at me) it's really bad. Once again, second time that day, I was mortified. Even more so when I told my partner and one of our witnesses (another female law student) why I was pulling up and they both commented - yeah, we noticed you were pulling your skirt way up and were kind of taken back. I was embarrassed the rest of the night. That's the feeling I walked away with, even though I had a great trial.
But, one saving point. Said "judge" did mention after his earlier comment, "You should only do the John Wayne move if doing it is better than the alternative than not doing it." It's winter (which means I don't shave), half the people in that room were men, and nylons are nylons are nylons. Yes, your honor, the alternative was definitely worse.