Tights keep rolling down...

[ThatTidyDeer]

Autumn has arrived and I've dug out my tights again, standard opaque work tights from M&S. Every now and again, they gently and depressingly roll down my tummy as they try to work their way off my legs.

Are more expensive brands less prone to this? I would pay more to stop this, but I don't want to pay loads only for the same thing to keep happening. I also don't want to wear two pairs of knickers and sandwich my tights between them, which was the advice I found when I googled this...

M&S velvet touch. If I’ve put weight on I wear knickers over the top to keep them in place!

Wolford Velvet Deluxe 50. Or their standard opaques. For me, nothing compares.
M and S do thermal tights(the only ones I’ve found that are not fleece lined so actually look like normal tights) and I size up in those.

go up a size (or 2)
really helps with the fit.

Wonder Woman

Pants below, then tights, then pants above

Added bonus makes you look a lot slimmer

I do the pants underneath and on top too.

I ignore the snag crap marketing/agenda and just buy the tights.

Snag tights are good but I can’t abide their marketing.

Better Tights really are better!

But they still fall down. So I use a tights belt, elasticated belt with grippy bits on the inside. They really work. Got mine on the A-Z site.

Stockings after giving up on opaques.

I think much like anything else different brands for different shapes. It's not so much about the expense, though I'm sure that's a factor. Definitely go up a size, i think that's the main problem of rolling. Mine are falke wool and last a couple of years and don't roll.

Ps, they're often discounted on amazon.

I also came here to say primark tights! Never had this issue and I buy my normal size.

This is good in theory but perimenopause dictates pants are a must unfortunately.

I found all the M&S range to be dreadful for rolling down. Asda and Sainsbury’s cheapies were better.

I buy Calzedonia tights,never roll down,they are fabulous.

Cannot understand the love for Snag. They are vile. They feel horrible.

Better Tights are super sturdy and stay put all day for me.

I'm going out there and saying I have recently taken to wearing maternity tights despite not being pregnant because then they fit me on the legs perfectly but don't roll down at the top. Still seem to make me look slimmer but I don't feel like I'm stuffed in sausage casing 😂

Don’t suppose anyone could give a brief summary of the Snag advertising issue?

(I have an ad blocker so haven’t seen anything that might have appeared on MN or elsewhere. And obviously don’t want to google and find whatever it is following me around the Internet in any form for all eternity.)

Take a look! They have men in women's clothing, period pants for men etc

Snag are great but expensive, with any brand I buy bigger than I need so I can wear them high

Try the next size up. My tights are all from either M&S or Thought and I have only ever had problems with any of them rolling down when I’ve gained weight and the size I’d had became too small.

It's not the brand, it's the size. You need to size up.

M&S Autograph Seamless in a larger size up. I buy five pairs in Sept and they never ladder or roll down. I wash them in a net bag so they dont get bits of fluff in the machine. They last through Winter.
They do pull up quite high, but thats fine with me.

Jeez.

Happy to skip.

I have this issue and have tried bigger sizes as advised, but I'm short and have narrow hips - almost no waist, compared to my hips - so a bigger size doesn't work for me, they are just too big all over and go saggy. I sometimes have similar issues with workout leggings but have a pair with a drawstring waist, and they stay in place if I tie the string tight! Not that comfortable though. The best ones I have are all ancient but seem to be much stretchier than any new ones I've bought so wondering if the Lycra/elastane content is the issue...

I just need tights for a short, narrow-hipped, no waist, chunky thigh size 10-12, that don't cost a fortune and are readily available in the shops!

No, I’ve tried that, didn’t help. And when you are 5ft 3 there’s only so much sizing up you can manage. I should be an M, but M and L roll down. I can’t wear XL.

Different makes are better or worse on me, M&S used to be good but are now dreadful. Ditto Next. Supermarket are better but not perfect.

I have resorted to pants over so far this year bit will try Primark as an experiment.

They roll down because the waistband is looking for the path of least resistance, so if you're apple shaped when you sit down it's looking for your hips, you should see what happens to me in a pair of Spanks shorts when I sit down to eat, it's like an elastic band round a sausage by the time I stand up again!