Sheer Tights

[austinsmam]

Does anyone still wear sheer tights?
I only ever wear opeques or fishnets these days.

opaques

What do you wear fishnets with? (nosy)

Longish dresses and skirts, only for those rare nights out though

I saw a woman wearing fishnets with a shortish skirt the other day. Didn't like them with that outfit. I used to wear them in my yoof though. I even had a white pair in the 80's.

My days of wearing short skirts are long gone And even to get the chance to dress up does not happen that often

they are coming back in i read

Really? They can look nice I think but not with everything.

Brian What are coming back?

I love microfishnets - you can hardly see that they are fishnet, and are soo hard wearing its unbelievable.

I do wear sheer tights for super best work purposes - actually, usually sheer holdup stockings though

Seems like all the youngsters are making a move towards sheer these days, if the Top Shop website is anything to go by.

I think fishnets can look nice as long as the dress/skirt is knee length and worn with simple black heels....otherwise I think it is too easy to stray into dodgy Liz MacDonald territory.

Personally, I am an opaques fan - mostly Wolford velvets. Bought my first pair of Falke today and cannot wait to wear them.

tulpe are Wolfords and Falkes really worth the extra £££?

I don't know about Wolford (they don't do a tall fit, so I don't buy them), but Falke are really the dogs doodahs imo

I cant justify paying more for a pair of tights, than i pay for a skirt

I do own some sheer tights but never wear them. Am thoroughly bored with black opaques, so now it's coloured opaques, lace or fishnets.

Cmot - where does one buy these micronets of which you speak?

Isn't the new thing a revival of all those sheer dotty/ lacy tights from the 80's?
I think black sheers are just about ok if they have a pattern such as dotty etc
Flesh coloured sheers (even good ones) are old fashioned/out.
Coloured & patterned sheers is where it's at I think - I quite like idea of these with party/evening dress/skirt although tend to be quite unforgiving.

Opaques much more forgiving obviously but I personally find black opaques a bit boring now and mumsy

I favour Levante but the Jonathan Aston ones are OK too.

Eshermummy - Really? I was thinking only the other day about the zillions of pairs of Christian Dior dotty tights I bought to wear to dance to Wham! in the 1980s.

I have already succumbed to the lace tights revival. What will be revived next I wonder? Ruffled shirts and knickerbockers?

I think i am the wrong side of 30 to carry off the dotty tights

You say that now but......in a few months when they are everywhere I am sure we will all be sucumbing.
Who thought coloured opaques would be so mainstream a year or two ago? Likewise with lacy tights.....

You DO need great legs to wear them with a kitten heel (also on its way back apparently!) and a mini skirt but less so if it's only 2/3 inches on show between knee high boots/hem of skirt.

no, my legs look terrible in sheers. I have strong legs.

I have never liked lacy tights. And cant see myself getting any dotty ones. Not sure how long a pair of sheers would last on me with DS`s

"Strong" legs. Yes, me too, poinsettydog.

Strong legs??

yes, strong legs. Euphemism of sorts. Chunky, wide and muscular, whatever.