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to beg for help regarding tights?

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MoonGirl1981 · 31/01/2011 12:03

Ladies, please tell me.......

How do you get your tights to stay up?

I'm getting too old for knee socks now and need to move on. I wear tights to work with hot pants over the top so they don't fall down.

I'd like to not have to do this. And I want to wear tights more often, especially now you can get funky woolly ones.

I see many women every day happily wearing tights. How do they do it?

I'm buying the right size, what am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

xxxxx

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frgr · 31/01/2011 12:52

Holy crap, falke merino are £19 pair! I'd have to wear a pair for 2 months to justify that sort of cost... i'm not convinced they'd last that long even if you can repair them...

Gissabreak · 31/01/2011 12:54

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BrainThrustMastery · 31/01/2011 12:56

kreecher I'm 5'/~155cm tall. Perhaps I've been buying the wrong brands...can you recommend any? :) I can't imagine not wearing underwear underneath...would it not get a bit...moist?

woollyideas · 31/01/2011 12:58

Am I the only one who thinks bras should have a couple of handy buttons underneath the cups and that tights should have a couple of buttonholes around the waist so you could attach?

Or you could have nice long straps that you can put your arms through, like dungarees, only tights... (Although I guess you'd need a weewee flap if you went with this option.)

Dartsonwednesdays · 31/01/2011 13:00

Stockings come in different sizes, and suspender belts have straps that can be adjusted for length. I don't ever have a problem in getting the right fit.

Also you can get some really funky stockings in all sorts of shades, thickness or material (I have some super warm wool ones for the really cold days).

No nylon, etc next to fanjo!

And best of all, if one ladders, you can simply take another stocking, it's not like chucking a whole pair of tights away when one leg rips. Go online, there's loadas available. I've not worn tights for years!

kreecherlivesupstairs · 31/01/2011 13:08

Brainthrust, we are in Belgium where the women seem to be related to Amazons. They are very tall which is useful for me.
Darts, I completely agree with you. Stockings are fab.

BreconBeBuggered · 31/01/2011 13:08

Darts, where do you get your funky/thick stockings?
I'm agape at all this two-knickers-plus-nylon malarkey. Canesten must be creaming themselves (snigger)

Northumberlandlass · 31/01/2011 13:09

I am 6ft tall, size 18 (well more 17, hey ho). The extra large tights which I have to buy for length of leg, are sooooo big that the waist can stretch to my norks.

I HATE wearing tights, disco gusset, that obvious cut off / bulge around the mid-drift...so I stopped wearing tights years ago and wear hold ups.

I love them.

I do have traditional stockings / suspenders but am happy with my hold ups.

tyler80 · 31/01/2011 13:09

I'm a size 10 normally, 5 foot 4 but with fairly long legs in proportion to height but often end up buying large tights because that's the only way that the crotch will be in the right place. Of course they don't stay there, but that is preferable to not being able to pull them up in the first place!

thunderbird69 · 31/01/2011 13:15

I don't think I've worn tights since I was about 16 - for school. just the thought of them makes me shudder.
I don't wear skirts/dresses unless it is warm, so go bare legged. On the very rare occasion I've had to cover my legs I wear stockings or hold ups.

RueLaChesty · 31/01/2011 13:15

i am size 14/16 and quite tall and always had major issues with tights until i bought a pair on saturday from H&M. My life has been changed. They do sit quite high up but i like that. 100 denier black tights, wore them for almost 12 hours and they didn't budge!

They have them in loads of colours and they are quite good at 'controlling' the tummy!

throckenholt · 31/01/2011 13:16

Yuk, Throck, you don't want nylon near your bits.

hmm - never thought about it - but now that I am - well they are mostly hole anyway I think - as in they keep you warm by trapping air in the mesh (or am I talking rubbish ?). So they should breath ok and not cause any problems to your bits (not that my tights fit that precisely anyway).

ThisIsANiceCage · 31/01/2011 13:21

Oh this thread is so reassuring: I thought it was just me who struggled with tights.

throckenholt · 31/01/2011 13:30

I think it varies with the make. I have some that fall down and annoy me intensely, and others that are fine.

But I am never organised enough to work out which is which so when I buy new ones again it is pot luck as to which I end up with.

I often find I don't get as far as washing them - I ladder them on the first day of wearing. If they do make it past the first day they definitely need washing before wearing again otherwise they go really baggy.

I usually end of hand washing a batch or occasionally putting them in the machine on a gentle wash (and then have the fun of untangling the resultant mess - is it just me that has that problem ?).

Never realised there was so much to tights.

irishqueen · 31/01/2011 13:32

i am the hold up queen ...even in late pregnancy these bad boys dont shift. m and s so thick opaque ones and i even got some opaque coloured and damond patterned ones.
make the switch

togarama · 31/01/2011 13:32

Could never be bothered handwashing anything. Stuff them all in a pillow case and stick in a normal wash with everything else.

I believe that you can buy special bags for washing delicate items but I find a pillowcase does the job too.

irishqueen · 31/01/2011 13:33

and i cant spell sorry

togarama · 31/01/2011 13:34

And a big yes to hold-ups too but only from April - October...

LadyWellian · 31/01/2011 13:47

I'm 5'6" and a size 12 but I always need to buy large tights or they are too short in the leg and fall down. I was a bit puzzled by this (as height and size wise I should be a medium) until I remembered I have quite big feet and the tights don't really account for that.

So if you have big feet, buy bigger tights.

ThisIsANiceCage · 31/01/2011 13:53

And yy to the washing bags. Now I've got a couple I use them all the time, cos I might as well.

Definitely one of those little things that make life so much better. Wish I'd bought them years ago.

CoteDAzur · 31/01/2011 16:25

Buy a size above what you are currently wearing, even if its package says it will be too big for you. Problem solved.

softpaw · 31/01/2011 16:28

buy good quality tights and then it really matters how you put them on..roll them really small to fit exactly around your toes and feet and then work them slowly up your legs..this works..oh and i buy a size too big x

ensure · 31/01/2011 18:05

Hold ups for me too. I hate the feeling of tights round my waist. Always feel too tight. Rather fitting I suppose.

Dartsonwednesdays · 31/01/2011 20:27

BreconBB, to give some idea on stockings, try here.

InPraiseOfBacchus · 31/01/2011 21:17

Are you tall? I am, and it's a nightmare getting through the day without tights ending up with the crotch somewhere around my knees. Recently I've been buying thick, cotton-rich tights which have a jersey-like weave so they don't fray, and cutting the toes off so I can wear them as leggings. This probably doesn't help if you wear thinner tights, or wear court shoes, but you must be able to find sheer tights which are footless.

It's odd that everyone is telling you to buy smaller tights. I always buy a size XL even though I am a M-L, in order to stop the penguin effect!

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