The Daily Telegraph

Tights, from £19 (heist-studios.com)

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Truth be told, The Telegraph’s fashion department is proving highly resistant to the notion of sheer tights.

Why should we cover our legs to suit some oldfashion­ed, provincial­ly minded dress code?

Let me count the ways: because it’s not always tropical on these isles. Because not all of us grow that glossy, perfectly evenly tanned stuff the likes of the Hadids call skin. Some of us have veins, blotches and other annoyances. Besides, Jo Bryant, Debrett’s etiquette expert, says that for formal, traditiona­l weddings and so on, a nude tight is what’s required, and having met Jo, we’re inclined to believe her.

Plus we’ve tried these from Heist, and as nude tights go, they’re brilliant – none of that giveaway sheen. They don’t even wrinkle when you bend your ankle. Incidental­ly this is a company that Dame Natalie Massenet has just invested in. Is Dame Nat a nude tights wearer? “Not yet,” says Heist’s spokesman… “but we’re working on it.”

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