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the only garment equally trusted by ballerinas, bank robbers, and your freezing grandmother
means A close-fitting, stretchy garment that covers the legs, hips, and usually the feet, worn for warmth, dance, sport, or style.
from Exactly what it sounds like: the adjective 'tight' pressed into service as a noun, because the whole point of the garment is that it fits snugly against the skin. 'Tight' itself goes back to a Germanic root meaning dense or close-packed (a cousin of Old Norse 'þéttr'), and English speakers eventually let the close-fitting legwear simply borrow that name — the plural 'tights' echoing other paired leg-garments like 'trousers' and 'breeches.'
- medieval menswear
- Men wore tights for centuries before women claimed them
- denier scale
- Thickness measured in grams per 9000 meters
- war shortage
- WWII nylon scarcity made women paint fake seams on legs
- superhero staple
- Comic spandex descends directly from theatrical and circus tights
- runner's ladder
- A single snag can race the entire leg
spanx — founded by sara blakely in 2000, became a $4 billion company revolutionizing shapewear tights
wolford — austrian luxury hosiery brand since 1950, known for high-end opaque and sheer tights
pretty polly — british tights manufacturer founded in 1919, iconic affordable brand across europe and uk