I've done a little more work on my painted-on stockings, and have now used them in a series of photos. My next step is to create different displacement maps to make different wrinkling effects. You can see some wrinkling here at her heel, but I want more variety for different poses. Then I want to try to change the color of the stockings. Bagginsbill has a neat trick for his nylon procedural, where you select a color with the color picker, and I'll see if I can make that work in my system. I'm sure I'll have problems and will look for help later...

There's a lot of discussion on these forums about making figures as realistic as possible, with subsurface scattering and so on. I have a different take. I havent much interest in the "surface" of reality (my novels always tend towards the surreal or expressionist), but I do want verasimilitude. So I want details, like the wrinkles in the stockings or the quality of the sheen, to look realistic, but overall I prefer a sense of mystery, a darkness,  shadows, even distortion. A deeper reality hides beneath the surface. It seems to me the Poser people, at least with our current technology, will never look entirely real, so their inherent unreality is something I like to work with. In the photos I've made, I imagine an old woman, Viktoria, in an abandoned factory. She wants to look young again, in these photos. So I have used Photoshop and other tools to take the Poser renders and imagine them as photos of an old woman being modified into images of a young woman, so there will be some "real" details, like the wrinkles, but an overall sense of, well, unreality....sigh. How does that sound?

Here's a link to the pictures on my website

Your render seems to me much away from reality