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AIBU?

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To wear tights with knickers?

145 replies

WobbleMolly · 25/02/2022 19:15

Someone said you're not supposed to wear underpants when wearing tights - that they are 'pantyhose' with the pants built in. Have I been doing it wrong all my life?

I've googled and there seem to be different opinions, but I wanted to see the percentage split. AIBU TO wear tights with underpants underneath?

OP posts:
gasty · 26/02/2022 06:10

I thought it was normal to wear knickers with tights?

gasty · 26/02/2022 06:13

Never head of 2 pairs of pants.

CheapFoodShits · 26/02/2022 07:02

Like others have said, one under and one over to stop them falling down.

gasty · 26/02/2022 08:24

How far do they fall down without pants?

Moancup · 26/02/2022 08:26

Eugh no knickers would be grim.

They’re called panty hose in America - where pants means trousers!

KittenKong · 26/02/2022 08:55

So what’s the hose bit?

LubaLuca · 26/02/2022 08:58

I think it means sort of 'trouser socks', pants and hosiery combined.

drspouse · 26/02/2022 09:28

@KittenKong

So what’s the hose bit?
Hose means any sort of tights or stockings. Panty means underpants. They are stockings with pants.
CaMePlaitPas · 26/02/2022 09:31

Ugh all I can think of is how sweaty and thrushy no knickers with tights would be. Awful.

KittenKong · 26/02/2022 09:33

Duh, doublet and hose…

TheGoogleMum · 26/02/2022 09:40

I definitely always wear pants

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 26/02/2022 10:00

Some tights have a built in cotton gusset area (posh ones) but you are meant to wear knickers with the others because your pubes work their way through the weave and then act like a wax strip when you got for a wee. Not fun!

Oblomov22 · 26/02/2022 10:00

Who said? They are a berk.

downtonabbeyfan1234 · 26/02/2022 10:13

I mean no knickers means you can avoid a wedgie. But is it that much of an issue?

FlasherMcGruff · 26/02/2022 10:26

Are you a sweaty tights crotch fetishist, OP? Do you really need to ask this?

LondonQueen · 26/02/2022 10:42

I wear knickers or otherwise one gust of wind in the playground and there would be an unexpected show!

AllOfUsAreDead · 26/02/2022 10:52

@HangOnToYourself

Who are the 5% saying YABU Confused
Probably the same ones who let their kids pee and poo in the middle of a restaurant.
WeirdlyKind · 26/02/2022 11:16

@KittenKong

So what’s the hose bit?
Hose is a collective word for socks/tights/stockings, at least in British English. Probably comes from the historical use to describe any sort of men's trousers.
Crunchymum · 26/02/2022 14:46

Isn't the hose in pantyhose short for hosiery which is the collective for tights / stockings etc?

As for the OP. I'm not sure they are genuine (understatement of the century!)

whataballbag · 26/02/2022 14:49

I wear them over and under 😂

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