are fishnets appropriate for work?

[kelhen]

I love patterned tights and work in an office environment. Would fishnets be too much? I'd wear them with pencil dress, cardigan or jacket and heels

No problem at all, as long as not worn with a mini and 6" heels

Go for it. Sounds like a good outfit combo.

Your outfit sounds great. But how can you wear fishnets without major foot pain where the net bit digs in and your toes hurt?

I think it depends on what you wear them with, and how formal your office dress code is. The can look very elegant if worn with a knee length classy skirt or dress. Flesh-coloured fishnets look great in the summer too.

They're far from standard office wear... Don't think I would.

Definitely will be knee length dress or skirt. Heels not too high. Office dress code is not very formal, in fact I'm the only one who wears dresses or skirts as I love them.

In the office I work in, probably not. Patterned ok but not fishnets.

I really don't like nude fishnets - I think it makes people appear to have a terrible skin condition, excema-like.

I used to wear nude fishnets to work (City lawyer). I was the only one doing them, but they weren't hugely different enough to raise eyebrows. They were micro fishnets, from Agent Provocateur, and I had to be careful to match the colour to my skin, as with all nude tights.

I wouldn't.

I wouldn't but I can see in some environments it would be ok when not combined with high heels and short skirts.

In Italy they are the normative transitional office look, many of the women working in nearby government offices seem to wear them to work. Avoid those that look stag night / Moulin Rouge and experiment with nude /soft white fishnets and you'll be fine. If your corporate code is ultra restrictive and your life depends on it, then maybe not

Nude, micro fishnets yes, any other sort I would say no.

Depends on your job rather. I wouldn't and I am quite the boundary pusher when it comes to office wear.

Small weave fishnets with slingback pumps or blocky shoes will look amazing this Spring. I often wear them both in black and other colours. Not the large weave though. They need to be really good quality ones- cheap will look cheap and it is what you wear them with that counts.

Go the pencil skirt/nets with red shirt and you'll look like an off duty Crazy Horse dancer. Wear them with something diametrically opposite in vibe and it's going to look cool.

This time of the year, I see lots of faux fishnets that look something like this. Can be very stylish with the right outfit if you have great legs.

I'm a city lawyer and I wear them sometimes. Very fine ones though and I prefer the nude colour ones.

I wear them for work - my legs are never good enough to bare and I get through nude tights at a rate of knots. I see loads of them in professional environments.

In a mad Miu Miu moment they can look great over a sheer tight in another colour too. You need to have that outlier courage and couldn't imagine it going down too well in suit land although I think it'd look great with a city suit!

The shoes have to be amazing with this look though.

Two pairs of tights ?

Thrush Central

I'm a big fan of nude fishnets but tend to buy them as hold ups.

Crotchless Any Or cotton gusset.

Having a husband who once danced professionally I know all about the two tights-peril

I wear nude coloured micro fishnets lots in summer. I am very pale and my legs would not look city smart if they were bare, and I prefer the matte look to the shininess you get with flesh coloured nylons, especially with lighter colours. And earlier this week I wore black micro fishnets (with sheer black tights underneath- I am a total stranger to thrush incidentally) to make a very conservative outfit look less frumpy. But I dress very soberly/minimally, v little make-up, no coloured nail polish, not much jewellery, no stilettos, no bare toes in the office, ever! So it also depends what your look is.

depends are you a hooker?