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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