Would you wear no tights in a corporate environment to work?or

[sunkissedlegs]

wear nude tights or opaque with a dress and heels.

I think I would not go bare as you would need to have brown legs and it feels not right your advice ladies.

I work in a relatively formal, but not full on ironed-cotton-shirt-and-skirt-suit for women environment. I reckon that bare legged is fine with an A-line, below the knee dress in proper summer, but is never ok with a pencil skirt or skirt suit.

I'm sure the OP sunkissedlegs is having a BALL reading all these discussions on tights and legs.

First post surely?

WHHAAAAATTT????????

Bloody hell.
I haven't owned a pair of tights for years
Dreadful things
Admittedly I usually wear trousers, but who'd have guessed they could cause this much controversy!!

Can I join in this informative discussion on leg-wear? Since there seems to be...you know...some people here who have a thing about it all?

I'm so glad I'm self employed now.

I used to hate wearing a suit and tights.

I wear tights (black opaques or fishnets depending on footwear) because I can't be arsed to shave my legs, & also my legs are currently white, veiny, & fleabitten. Yum!

Never occurs to me that anyone other than me ought to notice my legwear or care about it though. I'd think they were mildly weird if they did, but that'll definitely be me failing at being female. Again. I'm crap at it.

Can't bear nude tights. I just think 80s & not in a good way/ice skater/Hooters. But that just stops me buying them, not noticing if other people wear them...

I'm not very confident about my legs so I'd always wear tights. Probably not nude ones because I think they look weird (I'm naturally olive-toned and just find traditional nude tights look a bit pale on me). I have some opaque and sheer black tights that I'd wear.

It is too hot here, I never wear tights. I do have brown legs though. For starting a new job, I would go with the tights for the first day. Good luck!!

I only wear tights in the winter with closed shoes. Otherwise my feet SMELL and socks look weird with a skirt suit.

In warmer weather if I have sandals or open toed shoes on then I don't wear there.

I can't imagine anyone I work with gives the slightest damn about my legs. I know I don't pay attention to theirs.

Yes, always nude or black sheer tights unless it's the hottest day of the year and I'm wearing ankle length linen.

As a young un I was gently pulled up by a partner for wearing nude pop socks with black trousers and shoes -'should be black all the way down'.

It's a kind of stamina test in our office, who will give in and wear tights first!!!
No way are bare legs frowned upon or classed as unprofessional and we all take pride in our appearance.

Confused as to the point of wearing nude tights if nobody can tell you are wearing them why not save yourself the sweaty crotch and Go Bare?!

I'd wear tights always I think. The only time I might consider not doing so is if it was scorching and I had a long skirt on.

I work for a large City firm and part of our orientation on joining as trainees years ago was a day with some sort of image consultant who told us how it was and was not acceptable to dress for work. What she said was what I thought anyway, but I was surprised that some people were surprised. E.g. Bare legs are not acceptable; shoes should be polished, no peeptoes, no slingbacks; skirts should be no shorter than knee length; if you are a man, brown shoes with a suit are a no; the more flesh you have on show, the less seriously you will be taken; and (my favourite) "dress for the job you want, not the job you have".

Trainees today still get this training. Nevertheless I have been amazed sometimes to see what trainees and interns will turn up in. Some memorable ones include: a crop top under a suit; a visible tramp stamp and thong (with trousers); a floaty blouse through which black lacy bra was fully visible (no camisole).

None of these people got full time jobs.

I have on occasion gone bare-legged in court when it has been very hot. But then again I was heavily pregnant at the time and also wearing no jacket, flipflops and a "Yes? Do you have a problem with this?" expression that no-one seemed inclined to take issue with.....

Disclaimer: it was the magistrates' court, not the Crown Court which would probably be a step too far, even at 8 1/2 months pregnant!

I don't go bare-legged in court, but others do without any obvious repercussions. I think fishnets/patterned tights look more unprofessional than well-maintained, smooth legs on a hot day.

Only in the height of summer with something knee length or longer. And I'd make sure they were hair free and moisturised!

Worked for many years in a professioanl office and no tights in summer is fine as are smart sandals with a heel. Conversely none of us would have worn trousers unless we wanted to be mistaken for support staff.

When I started work as a graduate trainee (90s) there were all sorts of spoken and unspoken rules about what did and didn't look professional. I thought they were oppresive and sexist - wearing trousers on a cold winters day was seen as a no no as would have being bare legged on a boiling hot day. The marvellous thing about more women being in leadership positions is that the tone has softened and more feminine rather than what men think is appropriate. So on hot summer days, I wear a shift dress, sling back courts with heels and no tights. There is another woman who does that though, but doesn't shave her legs!

I work in a corporate environment but it's not super formal as my role isn't customer facing. Bare legs are ok but I tend to wear flesh coloured fishnets in summer (you can get them from Accessorize). They are cooler than tights and look perfectly fine with a suit or dress.

I've been acting suspiciously and staring at random women's legs in order to do a straw poll. Of my sample of skirt-suited women on a warm but not hot day in EC2, there was a roughly even 3 way split between black opaques, nude sheer and bare legs. And some truly shocking fake tans .

Dylis

I've been the same all day. Every single working person I have seen today (apart from me defiantly wearing a tan coloured skirt with bare legs), has been wearing trousers!

The absolute worse thing is that looking at everyone in trousers made me feel cold, and I had to nip to Waitrose and buy a pair of tights. Mumsnet strikes again.

I go bare-legged all summer - I make sure my legs are smooth and I moisturise them but quite happy to go without tights.

I work in a corporate environment. I wear tigths when it's cool/cold outside, on a hot day my pasty white legs which are full of toddler-induced bruises are bare. It has not hindered my career so far.