Tight Situations...

The laddering of a pair of tights can truly ruin my day! There is simply nothing worse than finding the perfect outfit, enhanced with a pair of 60 denier Opaques and after strutting into the office, discovering a ladder the size of my credit card bill marking its

way further down my leg.

“Use clear nail varnish to stop the ladder spreading,” a helpful colleague suggests. Please can someone introduce me to someone who is organised enough to carry a bottle around with them, just in case a tight emergency occurs?

With the seasons focus being on tights, then perhaps I should consider purchasing my own “in case of an emergency bottle of clear polish”.

With legs like mine, which would not look out of place attached to an elephant, tights have always been a fashion-God send to me.

Never been a fan of the stocking as the suspender belt offered all sorts of complex problems, not to mention the unmentionable breeze one would get waiting at the train station!

But with tight designs coming straight off the catwalk and into the high street, it seems I can have my cake and eat it, or have my stocking and wear the tights!

Inspiration taken from Henry Holland’s designs for Pretty Polly offer the warmth and practicality of a pair of tights with the glamour and sexiness of a pair of stockings as the design incorporates both.

But if you think that design might be a bit much to rock up to the office in, a whole range of tights are just waiting to be plucked off the shelves at any number of stores. The lace design tights are huge and will offer some warmth, but beware, one snag and that pair is only destined for one place: the bin.

Coloured tights are all over the place and lift an outfit depending on which shade you opt for.

Diamond and heart tights are cute and a perfect finish to your Christmas party outfit and for anyone aiming to incorpate that 1940s feel to their legs, then the backseam tights are the ones for you.

This particular pair of tights have surely been bought out to prevent women all over the world asking their friends to marker pen a wobbly line down the back of their legs.

The best thing about purchasing a brand new pair of tights is that they are relatively inexpensive and can really change an outfit. The only thing is any respectable wearer must stay away from cats, long nails and Velcro!


Perhaps stockists should start throwing in a bottle of clear polish with every pair bought? Just a thought…