'I’ve been wearing them since August' – Lucy Mangan in defence of black tights

Alexa Chung, Rihanna and Kate Moss in black opaques Photograph: REX/Getty Images 

 

Yesterday, Jess Cartner-Morley’s article about the subtle nuances of wearing black tights caused a bit of a to-do. What if you just pull them on when your legs are a bit cold?

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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