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've never understood how you apply fake tan in order to stop it looking all raggedly and crap round the ankle line, and I can now announce that no other woman in Central London knows how to do it either.

Ok so I went to work with opaque tights, looked around and only saw a few women with no tights but they were in back office.

One lady was wearing no tights but management made no comment,she was hairless,sunkissed brwon legs and looks like a model.

I am sticking with tights, I have olive skin and my legs could light up a office and thats not a good look, and don't get me started on fake tan, maybe thats another thread.

Sorry spelling mistake there, I meant brown legs.

This is not my first thread ,I'm very surprised at the response's I have had, and thank you all for your input whether you wear tights,go bare-legged ,or wear opaque tights or fake it.

Glad you had a good day!

I'm disabled and physically can't manoeuvre myself into tights.
I would be beyond pissed off if I was told by someone at work that I had to wear tights to work there. And humiliated if I had to try to explain why I couldn't.
Fortunately, in my office, no one gives a rats ass what we wear.

Thanks DoctrineofSnatch I am so tired, and I have another three days yet.

Bloody ridiculous. As long as you are not flashing acres of inappropriate thigh and legs are well cared-for then what is the problem? Tights are horrible sweaty things. I'd rather wear leggings or footless tights and boots in the winter, at least I can have cotton socks on. In the summer it has to be sandals, but never with flaky feet or skanky chipped varnish. The key is to look as if you care enough about yourself to look after your body, but not to flash it about in a work environment.
It's the same with cleavage. Mine is fabulous, but I won't be wearing a low-cut top to deal with my clients.

Good lord!
I never knew this rule!
I dress formally for work and don't wear tights between April and the end of September (my own etiquette - although think it should be in debretts, personally ) All skirts hit the knee (middle bit).

Then again, I do have quite nice legs that are quite swarthy also (one thing I wouldn't change about myself!). Always annoyed by Kate Middleton's granny shiny nude tights in the summer.

I still think it looks slack as I said up thread, particularly in a corporate environment. I do spend some time visiting organisations in the public sector and the standard of dress is very variable. I think a lot of Per Una is bought by women in local government admin jobs :). Somebody is going to give me what for now.

If your legs are attractive to behold - hairless, spot and blotch free, no varicose veins or scars and no fat/cellulite - you can go barelegged to work.

winkle2: "I work at the worlds number one law firm (so extremely corporate) and loads of girls go bare legged."

I wonder what you consider the worlds number one law firm. I work/have worked in a number of law firms on both sides of the Atlantic who like to think of themselves as the 'worlds number one law firm'. I agree that loads of women go bare legged and it is not commented on.

I wear tights only because I prefer a polished look, but that is for myself.

I work at CC :)

Totally inappropriate in a corporate environment to go bare legged unless you are very young, gorgeous, tanned and waxed, and even then I would automatically presume you were the secretary not the boss.

In Paris, for sure, tights = the secretary, (beautiful) bare legs = the professional.

Personally, I don't like bare legs in a work environment. But sometimes tights just look too frumpy and hot.

Actually, I'm a fan of trousers in the work place. I always feel much less constricted and happier to dive about the place IYSWIM.

Yes, wordfactory - have had various [professional!] jobs where frequently crawling around under the desk (to fiddle with computer cables etc) comes with the territory. Trousers are so much more practical.

Trousers with high heeled sandals and a great pedicure are also parisienne professional workwear. Trousers with flats = secretary.

Bilbo trousers are much more practical for bombing around town, jumping in and out of taxis, running up stairs...

They're also much more adapatble than a dress of skirt. You could pop on some flats for a journey and then slip on some heels for a metting. The advocates room in every court is full of women swapping ballerinas for courts.

I think that in Paris, if a professional woman doesn't show a bit of glamorous flesh at work, she is communicating that she is insecure in her own attractiveness. And being secure in your own attractiveness is a key component of status in France. Hence high-status professional women must communicate that.

Interesting bonsoir.

Complete opposite here. Trying too hard to portray oneself as sexy or desirable is seen as somehting for the underlings.

In fact I am old enough to remember when women were finally allowed to wear trousers in court...and they did. Wholesale over night .

I had a meeting the other day with the CEO of an investment management firm. She has a Harvard MBA and has held senior jobs in finance companies for over 20 years. She is probably in her 50s, has very glam shoulder-length blonde hair and some serious jewellery. She also had bare legs.

I think nude tights are the least chic thing you can wear. Horrid things.

Ah, but it is nothing to do with trying hard to project oneself as desirable, wordfactory. It is about being totally secure in your own attractiveness - they aren't trying hard! It is completely natural to them - the great security borne of years and years of making the best of yourself.

Oh come on Bonsoir you and I both know that the women in Paris are some of the most insecure on God's green earth.

They are uttterly conformist and keep the shrinks very busy .