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Grey opaque tights

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balletgirlmum · 08/02/2015 19:48

Ok so it's not really style & beauty as its school uniform but dd is really struggling to get grey school tights since she has outgrown her age 13 ones.

I've been to M&S, BHS, Primark, New Look & Boots.

Nowhere has a proper grey colour (not the bluish pewter) grey tights in either girls age 14/15 or Ladies XS/S

It's too cold for socks & even the largest grey knee length socks in M&S only come half way up her leg.

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cannaethink · 08/02/2015 21:54

I've got grey tights (ladies sizes) from tesco and sainsburys. The tesco ones are nice and thick.
I think H&M have grey tights too.

mysteryfairy · 08/02/2015 21:59

Next have them - a 3 pack is £9. Glad DD has navy though - wherever I buy them from primark through to falke I've learnt to accept that they are basically all going to need replacing every month or so - primark prices all the way since that sunk in!

HiawathaDidntBotherTooMuch · 08/02/2015 22:05

I have proper grey ones from m and s. Opaque, wooly, other £5 or £6 a pair. They are really good. From the womenswear but, come in s, m, l and xl.

KatoPotato · 08/02/2015 22:06

Tesco have them, got some today!

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balletgirlmum · 08/02/2015 22:55

I'll have to make a special trip to Tesco then

Why can't the school allow black I say.

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balletgirlmum · 08/02/2015 22:58

OMG!!!!!

I just put grey tights into Tesco website search & came up with 50 shades branded stockings!!!

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balletgirlmum · 08/02/2015 23:00

Can anyone link to the Tesco ones as I can't find them

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KatoPotato · 09/02/2015 00:21

I can't see them online ballet I just got them instore, sorry!

101handbags · 09/02/2015 11:28

www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-60-denier-velvet-touch-opaque-tights/p435641?colour=Charcoal

I have these in charcoal.

BeCool · 09/02/2015 12:30

The John Lewis school ones are really great - much better than the supermarket ones.

You can get JL to deliver to a nearly by Waitrose for free.

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balletgirlmum · 09/02/2015 13:16

Lol. Waitrose won't open in my city, we are not posh enough!!!!

She's had JL school ones before but now they are too small. We go there maybe 2-3 times a year as its 50 miles away.

I may have to resort to ordering the ladies ones but £10.50 including postage is a lot for a pair of tights.

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BeCool · 09/02/2015 15:10

I had to buy DD some grey tights and everywhere was out of stock - M&S, Tesco all the usual suspects.

Then I remembered JL deliver to Waitrose and there is one near work so it was a massive savior. Same situation with PE pumps earlier in the year.

Sorry I didn't realise until after I posted that you want ladies sizes.

I have some lovely M&S Autograph merino wool tights that I have been wearing all winter. I think they were possibly meant to be black but they are charcoal grey and suitably "schoolish". And by the looks of the website, out of stock. Drat.

Shonajay · 09/02/2015 15:12

eBay, 100 denier, quick delivery. I have a pair in most colours.

Pippin8 · 09/02/2015 15:17

I've just bought some from peacocks for £6. Really soft & quite good quality.

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