How To Wear Tights Like A Grown Woman
Tights are one of the best things about winter fashion. Not only do they keep your legs cozy and warm in freezing temps, they also give you the power to extend the wear of your summer staples a few more months. Who doesn't love to see their closet expand without shelling out the cash?
But for all their good qualities, tights can still be challenging to style in a chic, grownup way. We've all seen stockings that look more like a Halloween costume accessory than a fashionable wardrobe basic. Check out our tips below to ensure your tights game is on point this winter.
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Why pantyhose sales are still surprisingly strong
For much of the 20th century, pantyhose were an essential component of any polished woman’s outfit. But then, many Gen X and Boomers stopped wearing pantyhose years ago, dismissing them as uncomfortable and easily ruined by runs. Most Millennial women have never even worn them, and thanks to more casual office wear, they don’t need to in most offices.
Overall sales for sheer hose are down 8% in the 12-month period ending in September, according to the NPD Group / Consumer Tracking Service, and just last year, Cosmopolitan’s style editor declared that hose was not okay.
But pantyhose is far from extinct. In fact, it is enjoying a small bit of a popularity among younger women, according to the NPD Group. Sheer hosiery had $482 million in sales in the one year period ending May 2015, the NPD Group reports, and 27% of those sales were to Millennials, which considering its increase of 9%, the group calls a notable revival.
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Why it's time to embrace tights (and how to do them)
To listen to some women talk about tights, you’d think you had stumbled across a group of foot-binding survivors. Repressive, oppressive – there is not an “ive” that hasn’t been lobbed at tights in recent years. How ironic: tights were invented in 1959 by Allen Gant in response to his wife, who’d had it up to here with suspenders and garters. For a heady moment, tights were emblems of freedom (see Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton cavorting in their mini skirts). Technological advances mean that, theoretically, they still are. They keep you warm. They hide a multitude of leg issues, real and imaginary. They’re your best hope of acquiring legs like Gigi Hadid’s. If you wear skirts in January, you wear tights. End of.
Except – it isn’t. As recently as last winter, fashion experts were doling out tips for bare legging it in the bleakest months. Favourites included ankle boots with sheepskin insoles, invisi-shoe socks or, if you’re British, 7/8th trousers, allowing you to show the smallest sliver of naked flesh, just enough to prove you were tuned in to the zeitgeist. But why bother when you can just wear… tights?
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'I’ve been wearing them since August' – Lucy Mangan in defence of black tights
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| Alexa Chung, Rihanna and Kate Moss in black opaques Photograph: REX/Getty Images |
Not for the first time a memo issuing from the bowels of the industrial femininity complex appears to have got lost somewhere in the labyrinthine corridors before it reached me. Apparently, black tights are a vexed issue; there is a question mark over when exactly it is socially appropriate to don them.
Not in this house there isn’t. In this house, I ask a series of simple questions to determine whether or not today is a 60-denier day.
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6 Skin Tone Tights For Women Of Color Because There's More Than One Shade Of Nude
I don’t think I’ve ever owned a pair of nude tights in my adulthood. The nude nylons and stockings that were available to me while growing up in New England were always someone else’s idea of nude. They were never even close to the color of my brown legs. Sure, I could go with black tights, but living in a region where the weather can quickly turn cold and my outfit of choice requires my naturally beautiful leg color meant it was time to find some nude tights to protect my future outfit choices.
I’m sure it comes to no surprise to anyone with brown legs that finding nude tights or pantyhose on the fly is pretty hard. The search term "nude tights for women of color" had me at least five pages deep into Google before I found anything that could match my skin tone. Of course, some lingerie brands are actually starting to realize that humans aren't all the same light beige color, but nude tights for WOC are apparently still few and far between. For the sake of all brown-legged babes that want a pair of nice nude tights for their skin tone, I bring you the fruits of my Googling labor. These companies are manufacturing pantyhose for everyone.
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Video FOGAL Glamour Pantyhose
My first pair of pantyhose from this swiss brand of hosiery.
I combine them with three different pairs of heels.
What do you think? Which one fits the best?
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