This article and video (below) is about “Trendy Tights from Designers and High street stores”.
In addition to trends you will also find out about the first tights boom and brands. And how to take care of tights to keep them in a good condition longer.
Tights didn’t come into our life until fairly recently.
Until 1960 women didn’t wear tights, they had the stockings that you see on pin up billboards and old movies. But wearing stockings was not so easy; they had to have additional equipment such as suspenders or sew them to underwear that held the stockings on women legs. In spite of all these uncomfortable moments women wore stockings regularly as if this were normal.
Lots of people don’t know but there are 6 hosiery brands that have produced and sold tights and, stockings for more than 50 years and these are:
- Pretty Polly, England
- Platino Tights, Spain
- Pierre Mantoux, is one of Italy’s premier tights and hosiery manufacturers
- Oroblu, Italian brand
- Falke
- Wolford.
In this video you will find trendy tights by: Chanel, Balenciaga, Gucci, Zimmerman, Ganni, Prada, Emilio Pucci, Wolford, Falke and etc. Click the video
How to take care of tights
- Choose the correct size. When your tights droop down because they’re too small or when they wrinkle because they’re too big, it causes damage and destroys your tights. Ideally your tights should be the same length as your legs, not longer or shorter.
- You should take tights or stockings on and off with gloves. The gloves can be made of cotton, silk, wool or nylon and they protect your tights from your nails or dry skin on your fingers that make picks or holes.
- Wash all kinds of tights (nylon, wool, silk, etc.) after every use. Don’t leave tights dirty, even if your legs don’t sweat and the tights look clean, as it is not good for the cloth to stay dirty. The first reason why is that clean tights are more flexible and less prone to damage.
- Wash tights in their entirety. Don’t wash the bottom part or one leg only because you think the rest of the garment is clean. The first reason why is, it will be obvious and the second the soap spreads to the upper part and it creates a gradient between the washed and unwashed part.
- Ideally, wash tights by hand or use a special case with plastic protections which protects them against getting knocked in the washing machine and the case also protects from spinning which can also be harmful for your tights. Don’t wash tights with other clothes, or even worse with towels or bed linen. Wash tights separately, only tights and nothing more.
- The water temperature has to not be higher than 30 C, in the case of wool or cashmere tights it’ll need to be even lower. The lower temperature is important because tights can shrink or lose stretch or their color.
- Keep tights in a special section, you can use an organiser with separation sections or keep them in a special bag. But don’t keep them in a mess, because whenever you need to get some tights out you will jumble up all the tights, which can cause pulls or picks.
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