Comments on: Unsolved Mysteries: Sheer, below the knee tights

By: Diandra

Diandra — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:10:38 +0000

I don’t really mind the impracticality, but they’re really unflattering! You can’t tell with the sheer color (an advantage, I guess) but they cut off your leg at it’s thickest point, making you look fat. Here, it’s a popular look with little girls who want to wear skirts, but still be able to run around.

By: The Fashion Police

The Fashion Police — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:57:10 +0000

*round of applause for Tiina*
Love it – that’s totally what happened!

By: Tiina

Tiina — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:55:53 +0000

You wore those ooooh-so-pretty shoes you bought (despite the fact that they don’t fit all that well and scrape your heel) because they were on sale. And you went rowing deep in the Amazon jungle and when your canoe turned over and the alligators ate your boyfriend Albert you had to escape through mud and water, contaminating your scraped heel and getting gangrene in the process.
And although you managed to avoid having your legs amputated, you can no longer wear normal tights, socks, leggings, boots or shoes because if not in free air, it hurts, it squirms, it pains and you know you’d have no escape anymore.
Just like poor Albert, eaten by alligators while his impractically attired lady-friend made her escape using him as bait, only to save her ooooh-so-pretty shoes she can never wear again. But I guess that is his revenge.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:41:20 +0000

I like to wear dark, opaque tights like that in the winter, with my tall boots (so I can wear socks for warmth and not have to be layering socks over tights). So maybe that’s it. Except you don’t wear sheer tights in the winter anyway, so there goes my guess.

By: chocoholic

chocoholic — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:59:05 +0000

I wear tights like that sometimes. But they’re opaque not sheer.

By: Chloe

Chloe — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:36:43 +0000

I have to wear tights like that for dance, but wearing them for fashion is pretty pointless

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:44:08 +0000

Not wholly committed to the mini dress, obviously.

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:25:48 +0000

Maybe for cropped trousers, in weather when you really should be wearing a proper length trouser because it’s a bit nippy out? Doesn’t account for the nude colour though…unless the cropped trousers are also sheer!? Has that been done yet? a ‘shropped shrouser’ perhaps? or ‘Shropped Shareem Shrousers’? (am I getting a bit too carried away on the Sheer + clothing =Shress idea?)
These are honestly the only reasons for such pointless tights I can think of!

By: gokarm

gokarm — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:13:15 +0000

I’d wear these pulled up so they look wrinkly and pretend I’m a snake shedding it’s skin…hisssssss. No, not really.

By: Maddie

Maddie — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:28:47 +0000

I suppose its for people who want to not freeze but avoid wearing full on tights with shoes… It’s annoying even if you’re wearing socks as well. Just plain uncomfortable in my opinion. *shrugs*