I am mystified by tights. Please can you help?

[Birdly]

Am trying to get into skirts but facing a mental block after a lifetime of committed jeans-wearing.

Tights frighten me on several levels, but my main question is this: what do you wear on your feet at home if you're wearing tights? Do you go 'bare-footed' and risk snagging them, or do you wear some sort of slippers/mules?

I really worry that if I had something on my feet with tights at home, I'd look like somebody's granny or a retirement home resident.

What's the style answer? Is there one?! Thanks!

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Look for sophisticated slippers

LOL, does it really matter? I've never given it any thought. I'd have thought a delicate little pair of slippers would look just dandy.

Sophisticated slippers? That's a whole other can of worms!!

I only wear thin tights for work - when casual it's 70 denier opaques and no slippers for me.

When I have needed slippers in the past (student/new grad rented shared houses with sticky carpets) I wore black ballet shoes

I wouldn't wear tights at home, take em orf !

I ladder tights before the day is out anyway

How about some diamante mules and a feather boa?

IF 60/70 denier "Black" Opaques..[I Wear my 17 yr old daughters] then i wear them barefooted inside or in the garden ..as thay are not mine , i dont mind if i ruin them..if my own Tights 15/20 denier Tan ..then i always wear slippers.

I don't do tights but neither do I wear anything on my feet at home except maybe socks if it's really cold.

I wear slippers over them, my slippers are like these:
www.next.co.uk/shopping/women/lingerie/59/5

Or I take them off and put leggings and socks on, in fact, just buy leggings and socks...

I live in tights! I have to wear black opaque tights as part of my work dress code so keep them on when I get home.Like others who have posted replies I wear either ballet slippers or socks at home in the evening.