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As our esteemed customers know - tights are a fabric leg covering that usually extends from the waist to feet with a very tight fit (from which the name derives). We all know Nora Batty didn’t wear tight tights, but they still count!
Fashionable styles of tights are worn by many women and girls, but the thermal properties of tights mean they are ideal for infants and toddlers of both sexes. The use of tights as fashion accessories for both sexes has not evolved as yet however some adventurous men do buy their tights from Sockshop.co.uk – and we have pictures to prove it!
Our customers living East of the Atlantic, please note the difference between pantyhose
and tights. In women's fashion the weight of the yarn and thickness of the
fabric determines the name. Usually, under 40 denier means they are called
pantyhose and items over 40 denier are classified as tights in the United States.
However in the United
Kingdom the word "tights" is
always used – perhaps we are lazy!
At SockShop.co.uk we have many different
styles and weight of tights from control tights to fashion tights. We have
active tights, summer nude tights and our bestseller is the classic nylon
tight .
With the throw back to the 1980s, unfooted
tights (usually called leggings) have become fashionable. Footless tights are
great and our Sockshop.co.uk selection will wow your legs and free you feet.
Why Tights?
Would you believe that tights were a fashion must for respectable gentlemen in Europe several centuries ago. They were made as tight as possible to aid comfort when riding horseback.
Noble men could afford to wear silk or fine wool rather than the cheaper fabrics used by the lower classes. Padding was also a fashion must in the time of King Henry VIII; it was necessary to show a muscular leg – even the king padded the calf area under his hose. Perhaps “Wondertights – calves to die for” would have worked well on the high street in those days!
