And Just Like That, Marmite on toast and opaque tights have in common? The answer is that nobody seems able to agree on whether they are very good or very bad.For some women, black tights are one of fashion’s greatest inventions.
Each October, they pull on the thick stretchy material with joy, finally able to wear a short skirt without baring any flesh.
For others, they are the blight of winter – endlessly drooping at the crotch or laddering at the first whiff of a broken nail.
For years, fashion sided with the tights-phobes, and even at the notoriously freezing February shows, editors battled through New York snow drifts in bare legs because pulling on a pair of opaques was one fashion faux pas too far.But with the return of the miniskirt, we are seeing the return of tights as a fashionable item.
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