Retailers predict hosiery sales will be strong this year, even without office dress codes or a big party season to lure us out of our sweatpants.
But while the high street might be grateful for our 60-denier-a-day habit, David Attenborough probably wouldn’t approve. There’s no escaping the truth: tights are the plastic straws of the fashion world.
Most will meet with enough splintery benches and snaggy nails to render them the closest thing our wardrobes have to a single-use item.
Buy, wear, rip, bin, repeat. Ever since their wartime debut, tights have been made predominantly from nylon; a plastic-based synthetic polymer derived from coal and crude oil.
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