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Tights were once considered revolutionary, when showing off your legs was scandalous. Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick was famously photographed in hers, with Life Magazine observing that she was “doing more for black tights than anyone since Hamlet.” Now they’re as standard as the white sock — though in talking to tights-obsessives, it became obvious to me how many opinions…
There’s a stereotype that women from the north of England don’t sacrifice aesthetics for comfort in winter. Southerners remind us of this every chance they get. And, generally speaking, the idea is that we won’t as easily swap cute outfits for practical, warm ones when temperatures plummet. I’m from Liverpool, and my signature…
The problem with tights is that most of them aren’t very comfortable and they rip, snag, or wear out after a handful of wears. The best tights are tough yet flexible and extremely flattering. They stand up to sharp toenails, dogsthat jump up, and table corners that come out of nowhere — like this…
While some flight attendants and all Hooters waitresses are still required to wear flesh-toned pantyhose as part of their uniforms, almost every major American corporation has banished any mention of pantyhose from dress-code manuals. Outside of conservative law firms, an audience with the queen of England, or a southern debutante ball, the…
When hot girl summer came to a close last year, I couldn’t stop thinking about those fishnet crop tops I kept spotting on my weekends at the beach. All summer long, I noticed beautiful fishnet-clad bodies of all shapes and sizes along the Jacob Riis boardwalk. In their neon fishnet tops stretched…
A couple of months ago, I had a small, freakish accident: I was walking in midtown and wiped out so totally on the sidewalk that I fell flat on my face, bruising my cheek, chin, hip, and knees. It was fairly shocking. But what was maybe even more shocking was…
Somewhere around the age of 21, I stopped wearing stockings. I had left college early to work in New York City in late October. There, closing in on winter, some of the women around me were still walking around with bare legs. Despite inclement weather, they even wore sandals. I now…
