tights ... Aibu to think they are a torture device?

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So I have recently returned to work after my littlest started nursery . I'm struggling with being in grown up clothes for the office but the worst part is tights !
Why can't I find decent opaques that don't ride down around the waist?
What causes them to bloody roll down anyway? It's driving m crazy and I look like Nora batty by lunch ..... please tell me
why this is happening - and/ recommend me. some that won't do that......

Debenhams do a fair few high-waisted ones. I am nearly 6ft and the right sized ones reach my bra level. They were a revelation after years of poorly fitting pairs.

tapdancingmum I believe you can get suspenders with up to 8 straps each side. But I think those are the ones that appeal for other reasons 😁

Years of research in this area! Mainly because I suffered the indignity of my tights starting to curl downwards to my knees when I was walking through town. I ended up yanking them up in a phone box (maybe that’s the reason they should still exist).

I would highly recommend wearing cotton knickers under tights anything else causes them to fall down. Finding this out was a revelation.

Good luck xx

& Other Stories shaping tights are brilliant at £11 - do not budge (control top is not uncomfortable at all - they are smoothing but they're not Spanx).

Heist are much hyped and are good but I really do think £22 is too much for a pair of tights! I have some but "for best".

Heist 80 denier high waisted are the best tights I’ve ever had, but so pricey.

Pants, tights and another pair of pants over tights works for me.

Primark 80 denier 3 packs are excellent. They come right up to my waist and don’t budge at all.

I once tried knickers-tights-knickers and ended up with the top pair slipping down my legs

A lot of knicker-over-tights wearing going on Sounds really uncomfortable, my nether regions would get claustrophobic!

Knickers over the top

Try heist tights. They have completely changed my view if tights!

I wear big knickers over the top to stop them moving works a treat but you have a vpl!

I can’t be dealing with pulling tights up all day so I can live with the vpl.

God, tights and stockings are foul. They're so uncomfortable. My solution is not to have any clothing that needs to be worn with them.

A lot of knicker-over-tights wearing going on Doesn't that spoil the line of clothes though?

I hated wearing tights as a teenager and avoided wearing skirts/dresses for a number of years for that very reason.

Then I went into a phase of wearing suspenders and stockings all the time because I hated that 'gusset feeling' with tights, and it felt quite sexy to wear them! However, I increasingly found that suspender belts were only designed to be worn in the bedroom so they became a non-starter for wearing if walking was involved.

Finding good tights seems to be more and more of an issue than ever it used to be. It dismays me greatly because I much prefer wearing dresses or skirts to trousers/jeans. I find they fall down, aren't long enough in the waist and/or generally feel uncomfortable with much surreptitious 'hoiking up' required.

DD is always finding fault with wearing tights even at the age of 12. I have already warned her that it will be a life-long issue!

I bought the M&S cellulite reducing opaques, which held everything in and never fell down.... but they were so tight round my toes that they cut off my circulation and I ended up with chilblains!

I only wear tights on formal occasions, weddings, funerals, posh restaurants -- i.e. only when I wear dresses.
So I am looking for fine,10 denier appearance or thereabouts. But I have never been able to find good quality, really comfortable tights for these occasions. (I'm size 16 and 5' 5". And a pants-on-top woman)
I bought a pair of Heist high-tops and laddered them first time I put them on. I still wore them (the ladder was high up, near the body part) and I also have a pair of the low-tops which I haven't tried yet. I don't know whether to get a few more of the high-top ones -- does anyone recommend, bearing in mind my previous experience? (and the very high price!)

Get a larger size than you think you need.

kaytee87 in theory it's a good idea but the only times I've ever 'sized up' I've ended up with Nora Batty tight wrinkles round my ankles. Even less of a good look than having to stop to hoik tights up!

I hate high-waisted anything and actually wish you could get low rise hipster tights.

I hate tights because of gusset droop!
however I have yet to find a pair of hold ups that stay up. The band rolls over and they don't stick. has led to some awkward moments...

Ah yes, TFW you're running for the train and feel the hold up start to descend...

When I first started wearing hold-ups (in the 90s), I found them great.

However, I had one terrible experience in the middle of winter, some years later, when I ended up with one round my ankle . It just wouldn't stay up. I ended up having to take DS to nursery (a good 30 minute walk) with no hosiery on (which mortified me as it's most definitely not a good look at that time of the year!). I wrote to M&S to complain and got a refund, but after that I vowed never to wear them again! A great pity because in theory they were perfect, particularly when wearing figure hugging clothes!

Always the pants on top. Always.

If you choose to wear suspender belts and stockings, remember, knickers go on top. I still get surprised by people that don't know this, including some younger designers who obviously have no idea.

It's not the falling down,Nora batty style that I hate,it's not getting them on STRAIGHT...always get them twisted so the gusset is wrapped around my thigh and I spend all day discreetly trying to twist them round but always get caught and the more I try to explain,the redder my face gets....yes there's lots of genuine reasons for having your hand down your skirt.....😅

Can’t stand the feel of the stupid sweaty synthetic things and haven’t worn them for years! I’m retired now, and live in trousers or jeans. I was lucky I didn’t need them for work either- I was in surgical scrubs all day in the operating theatre, so just had ankle socks under my greens.
I only wear dresses in v hot countries on holiday, and then it’s bare legs and sandals.