Snag Tights

[ShrikeAttack]

I hate their marketing.

I really thought they were only for very obese women or very fat men who like to wear tights.

I didn't realise that slim women were their target market too.

@sonjadog

I get holes in mine too. Easy enough to sew up again though. My M&S Autograph ones have lasted much longer without holes.

Agree. Autograph all the way

BUT they will not sell tights to smaller women.
They may as well take their smaller sizes off. No woman below a 14 will even look at them.

I doubt they care. They have their target market.
They will just order and stock fewer smaller sizes.

To be honest, I see why they aim the marketing at plus size women. If you're a size 10, you can buy tights from Primark, the supermarket, M&S, pretty much anywhere. The competition is strong. As a plus sized woman, buying tights is extremely difficult, so there's much less competition.

It's like Simply Be. They're a 'plus sized' retailer, but most of their styles come in a 10/12. But if they aimed their marketing at slimmer women, they'd probably be pretty meh about it since they'd be up against every other high street retailer!

I've bought snag tights but their smallest size is huge on me and I'm not short (size six though - partly cancer related but even when I was a 10 they were pretty roomy). I don't think their quality is great and they fall down on me but they are nice and soft. Agree that their target market is bigger women and I like that they use larger and disable women as their models.

Saying that you think Snag don’t market themselves properly because they come across as plus size when they aren’t is fine. But even once you know they’re not, refusing to buy them because they only use plus size models is very petty. Almost like you don’t want to associate with fatties.

BUT they will not sell tights to smaller women.
They may as well take their smaller sizes off. No woman below a 14 will even look at them.

What bollocks. I never understand why people declare stuff like this as though it's an actual fact rather than just the posters opinion. I buy them and so do plenty of other women below a size 14 too, judging by this thread alone.

I'm so sorry that fat and disabled people wear clothes op

C'mon. That's not what I'm saying. Obviously.

It's just the 'large woman burlesque bopo' exclusive marketing actually excludes both slimmer women and larger women that don't buy into that rhetoric.

I was genuinely surprised when I discovered Snag made tights for women my size.

Their marketing is off is they want to sell to a broad demographic.

I know so many people that absolutely adore their snags all sorts of shapes and sizes, all walks of life.
Their marketing seems to work brilliantly.
People talk about it, we are talking about it.
I bet quite a few mumsnetters have clicked on this thread and gone off to have a nose. I'd imagine some of those places orders too
I can't name many companies that almost exclusively sell tights...

I'm just about to spend my voucher that I bought at the beginning of lockdown in April. Spent £20 on the voucher and have £40 to spend on tights now in November. Helped keep them afloat.

Thanks for the reminder OP. I love their colours, I'm a 12......

I've been wearing Wolfords for 30 years.

I have nada skin in this particular game.

I find their tights brilliant, they wash well, they last and last, and they have great colours and styles. I’m not plus size any more, but for a long time I was, and it was fucking annoying never seeing a woman who looked like me in an advert, and never being able to find nice, well made clothes at a decent price. So now the tables have turned, and larger women can see other women wearing things that are fun and stylish and affordable. Good.

@ShrikeAttack

I've been wearing Wolfords for 30 years.

I have nada skin in this particular game.

Jesus Christ the photoshop on their website is shocking! I thought I'd have a look because I'm open to other options, but wowwwww

@MagnoliatheMagnificent I'm a 22 and always struggled to find tights with a long enough body to cover my tummy and not cut me in half causing more bulges. Other tights plus size seems to just make the legs longer but not the body.

I've been using my snag tights for a couple of years and just replaced them in time for September. Love them!

I don't know why the op is that bothered that they still sell smaller sizes yet seem to focus their advertising on bigger women, they clearly have the business in smaller sizes otherwise they would stop stocking them. Most brands that still stock bigger sizes usually use slim models but that doesn't stop us bigger girls from checking out their stock.

Well I'm size 10 and very short and I've bought them. The size ranges are stated on the adverts. Even thlugh a lot of the models are plus size it seems fairly obvious to me that they are aimed at a wide range of sizes. I've been a bit disappointed mind you. They are fine, but not really any different to other opaque tights I've bought and they cost more.

@Persipan

I sometimes used to find their marketing a bit gushing, but they're such great tights that now I routinely gush about them, too. I bought some when I was pregnant, because I couldn't find any maternity tights that weren't deathly dull, and although they don't do maternity tights they say the ordinary ones are stretchy enough to do the job. I wore them right through pregnancy, and am still wearing the same ones seven months later - no ladders, no holes, and they never fall down. They're bloody brilliant.

Ooh, this is interesting because I'm struggling to find maternity tights that stay up, and I didn't know they said theirs could be used as maternity tights. Do you mind me asking how tall you are? I wonder if the reason that I struggle is that I'm 5'10 and tights never seem to be good at stretching in both directions, even if they're marketed as maternity tights.

I'm 5'6 but they're seriously stretchy so I'd say give them a go!

It’s the pendulum on the up swing OP. There’s a huge drive to be diverse which feels very odd as were used to seeing lots of thin, white women everywhere but eventually it will settle somewhere in the middle and everyone will be catered for.

Just seen a picture of the historian Lucy Worsley. She seems to often wear coloured tights, and really rocks them. I wonder if she is a customer?

They are brilliant.