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Do you wear pants with tights?

94 replies

beingchampion · 12/01/2020 15:13

Wore tights for the first time in forever yesterday, DH asked why pants with tights as the top bit is thicker and quite substantial (although not when stretched round my fat arse!). I thought everyone wore pants but it made me wonder? I have in the past worn them over the tights to stop the hanging crotch thing, but surely everyone wears pants or have I been doing it wrong?

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Emma198 · 12/01/2020 15:13

😂

dementedpixie · 12/01/2020 15:14

Of course I'd wear pants. Dont want moist tights gusset!

CherryPavlova · 12/01/2020 15:15

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MaryBoBary · 12/01/2020 15:15

Oh god, you wore them OVER your tights?! Don't do that again OP...

SexlessBoulderBelly · 12/01/2020 15:17

I wear pants under my tights... and if they’re the type to start making their way south after 20 minutes I also stick a pair on top to keep them up. Best thing ever

dementedpixie · 12/01/2020 15:18

I remember as a child wearing an extra pair over tights to keep them up (plus the pair underneath)

DrinkSangriaInThePark · 12/01/2020 15:18

Of course I wear pants! Tights aren't made from a nice, hygiene-friendly material like cotton.

ThePinkiestPonk · 12/01/2020 15:19

I always double-pant for tights!

GreenTulips · 12/01/2020 15:20

If you have to wear two pairs of pants you are buying the wrong size tights.

Yes you wear knickers

NarwhalsNarwhals · 12/01/2020 15:32

yep, I always wear pants under tights and assumed everyone did.

SexlessBoulderBelly · 12/01/2020 15:33

@greentulips
Not necessarily. All the tights I buy are based on height. I’m 5ft.. so tells me to but small. But i also have huge thighs and am basically as wide as I am long, so smalls either don’t have enough material left to reach my crotch, and anything bigger there’s too much material they just slide down and are too big on the waist.

We can all win with promotions unfortunately :(

SexlessBoulderBelly · 12/01/2020 15:33

Proportions*

Coughy4u · 12/01/2020 15:40

Yes pants under tights. Who needs thrush?! Oddly my dh was like that oh you wear pants too? Ugh men and their porn brain.

diddl · 12/01/2020 15:40

I where pants with tights.

I can see why it would seem that there is a "built in pair" but the seam & the material I wouldn't want next to me other than on the legs!

TSSDNCOP · 12/01/2020 15:43

Yes indeed. Otherwise your lady garden looks like it’s off to do a bank job.

SmileyClare · 12/01/2020 15:43

Please let your dh know that
Nylon does not absorb moisture so sweat is trapped against your skin, creating a breeding ground for odour and infection in the crotch area, it also doesn't move with your body as cotton would, causing chafing

He'll wish he never asked Grin

SmileyClare · 12/01/2020 15:45

Fair point TSSDNCOP it also looks like you're housing a masked bank robber between your legs.

GreenTulips · 12/01/2020 15:46

Alternatively get him to wear the tights and see how he feels after work

Fishcakey · 12/01/2020 15:50

Always pants and always underneath the tights!

TSSDNCOP · 12/01/2020 15:51

You paint quite the picture overall Smiley. I think between us OP’s DP will be sponsoring a be-knickeref approach in future.

lorettalemon · 12/01/2020 15:52

I thought everyone wore pants under tights?! Tights are just an alternative to socks - you wouldn't go out in socks and no pants 😂
Like pp I did used to wear extra pants over the woolly saggy school tights that fell down all the time

Lailaha · 12/01/2020 15:53

TSSDNCOP GrinGrinGrin

MintyMabel · 12/01/2020 15:56

@ThePinkiestPonk

I used to, then I bought those Snag tights. A revelation!

And I promise I have no affiliation to the company whatsoever, I’m just so pleased I found tights that don’t fall down or roll down.

pictish · 12/01/2020 15:58

Ugh the thought of wearing a pair of tights with no pants is grim to me. Yes pants...absolutely pants.

PhoneLock · 12/01/2020 16:00

I thought everyone wore pants under tights?! Tights are just an alternative to socks - you wouldn't go out in socks and no pants

Stockings are just an longer alternative to socks.

I know somebody who used to wear stockings and no pants. It cured her chronic thrush.

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