Question for Women ONLY! Need your input here

[rosebud]

Loving all the info here so far!! Here is my thing with tights....they are usually to thick looking and to me they look like I have on my granny's leggings. So I've taken to wearing colored hosiery which is usually in black, navy, cream or chocolate depending on the color scheme of the outfit I'm wearing and these hose look the way I think tights should look. Any one know of a good brand of tights that don't look like your granny's leggings when you have them on?

[Dora]

Opaque hosiery accomplishes the same effect...but you have to get tights with a good amount of SPANDEX in 'em so they don't bunch or pucker at the ankles and knees. There is a brand at Dillards that I like. I'll have to check on it and let you know.

I kinda like the thickness of tights vs. opaque hose. It's one of the things I love about cold weather - getting to wear tights!!! Yay!

[rosebud]

Originally Posted by Dora

Opaque hosiery accomplishes the same effect...but you have to get tights with a good amount of SPANDEX in 'em so they don't bunch or pucker at the ankles and knees. There is a brand at Dillards that I like. I'll have to check on it and let you know.

I kinda like the thickness of tights vs. opaque hose. It's one of the things I love about cold weather - getting to wear tights!!! Yay!

Oh that would be great, let me know the brand because we actually have a Dillards here in our little town. Also have you tried the SPANX tights? I read in a Magazine that Spanx made them also.

[Blubayou]

OK, I am old fashioned- I was taught that a lady is never completely dressed unless she has hose on. ( Plus I have large thighs- chaffing you know) So I wear hose most of the time when I am going out, except when it is blazing hot outside. I wear them to church always. I wear tights in the winter. I like the Walmart - George - brand. They are not too thick.

[dizzyde]

I agree with everyone on the tights, I couldn't live without them in the winter! Also, if it gets really cold I start wearing my skirts a lot longer than I normally do, long skirts and boots look really cute. I live in boots in the winter.

[Dora]

Originally Posted by Blubayou

OK, I am old fashioned- I was taught that a lady is never completely dressed unless she has hose on. ( Plus I have large thighs- chaffing you know) So I wear hose most of the time when I am going out, except when it is blazing hot outside. I wear them to church always. I wear tights in the winter. I like the Walmart - George - brand. They are not too thick.

This is EXACTLY what SPANX was invented for! They're sort of like wearing control top hose, but not so hot. You get the slenderizing effects without having to encase your legs in stretchy synthetic fibers! Yay!

[Felicity]

Dark hose and tights (but no pattern or texture) in the winter.

Bare legs and sandals in the summer.

[nahkoe]

Originally Posted by rosebud

Okay, I admit it I am a little slow to get on the band wagon with the latest trends. I think I'm pretty fashionable but at times I feel like I am waaaaaaaaaaaaay behind times. Here is my question... "Hosiery" so it appears that hosiery is a thing of the past from what i've read in various fashion mags. In one I just read lately a women tried to embarass her significant other by wearing what she called "suntan opaque church lady hose"! So I can grasp this in the heat of summer, great pedicure no hose, works for me. But it is now the dead of winter! It actually snows up where I live in AZ and so what do all you fashion conscious women wear when it is cold or snowy in your area? Oh and please don't say pants because that is not a current option for me! Dora.......your imput here would be great since you are the one who turned us on to SPANKS!!!

I'm not fashionable. But I am warm. I wear feetless tights with knee high socks under ankle length, heavy, skirts. In the summer, I wear socks under ankle length skirts. I don't wear dress shoes, my feet/hips/back don't tolerate them at all. I hate hose, besides it just isn't right in the sort of shoes I do wear.

I hate hosiery, and don't even own any. In the cold, I wear tall socks that I get from http://www.sock-dreams.com (there are some racy stockings on there, but their over the knee, and thigh-high knit socks are great!) and if it is really cold, I pair those with some leggings, like cuddleduds or silk "long johns" and a heavier skirt.

Since I wear longer skirts, most of the time you can't even see but an inch or two of my socks...if at all and generally can't see my leggings at all.

I currently live in the south, but even when I travel to visit family "up yonder," this combo keeps me nice and warm. Even in Chicago in the middle of winter. This also kept me nice and warm through the winters in Germany.

[Dora]

Originally Posted by Titus2Mom

I hate hosiery, and don't even own any. In the cold, I wear tall socks that I get from http://www.sock-dreams.com (there are some racy stockings on there, but their over the knee, and thigh-high knit socks are great!) and if it is really cold, I pair those with some leggings, like cuddleduds or silk "long johns" and a heavier skirt.

Since I wear longer skirts, most of the time you can't even see but an inch or two of my socks...if at all and generally can't see my leggings at all.

I currently live in the south, but even when I travel to visit family "up yonder," this combo keeps me nice and warm. Even in Chicago in the middle of winter. This also kept me nice and warm through the winters in Germany.

Love Cuddle Duds! I wore them to New York and Maine and stayed nice and cozy warm.