Tights fit

Fancy tights and leggings offer an easy style fix for the winter wardrobe blahs -- and a leg up on spring fashion.
"One of the quickest, most cost-effective ways to instantly update your look is with beautiful, eye-catching hosiery," says Svetlana Sturgeon, for Phantom, a Toronto-based hosiery manufacturer.

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Medi Introduces Mediven® Sheer & Soft: Stylish and Comfortable Compression Therapy Treatments Now Available

Medi USA, a worldwide leader in medical therapy products, introduces Mediven® Sheer & Soft, a complete line of fashionable, discreet and comfortable compression therapy stockings suitable for day and evening wear. Independently proven to be more sheer and comfortable than leading competitors, Sheer & Soft stockings are available in a variety of colors.

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Colored tights' timing is right in styling cycle

For years, decades -- maybe even since the invention of tights -- women wore them only with boots or shoes. Pairing peep-toe shoes or sandals with opaque tights was so obviously wrong that it rarely made lists of "don'ts." Such advice was unnecessary, like suggesting women avoid blouses with three sleeves or telling men not to hit the office with their neckties knotted in nooses.

Two years ago, several designers, including Prada, Dolce & Gabbana and Jean Paul Gaultier, paired colored tights with sandals in runway shows. Actress Mischa Barton and model Kate Moss appeared with the look -- not caught by preying paparazzi on bad days, mind you, but actually posed in fashionable photographs.

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Debate '09

If you are going to attempt this combination, allow me to point out a few guidlines. Wear this look with dark tights (preferably brown, navy, charcoal gray, and black), with shoes that are similar in color. You do not want the contrasting colors of your tights and shoes to vary significantly. However, do not match them perfectly (unless it is a black on black variation) because you could end up like Gwyneth below, as a metallic mess.
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Pantyhose’s 50th Anniversary

The year of 2009 may be most famous with Barbie’s 50th Birthday, but there is something else that celebrates 50 years of its invention. For every season all of us ladies wear pantyhose, from the sheer in summer nights to the warm detail-oriented in winter cold. In fact, the colder it gets, the more we need our dear friend, the pantyhose, as short skirts and dresses are even lovelier during the winter...

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Celebrities Black Tights Fashion Show

Molly Sims in black opaque pantyhose

Jennifer Garner in black semy-opaque tights

Jessica Alba in black sheer shiny tights.

Love or Loathe: Floral Tights

Patterned tights always tend to go down well each season, but when it actually comes to wearing them, it can be a terrifying thought for those of us who aren't stick thin models.

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