Be Tight with Your Tights

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Because you will be wearing it a lot in the coming months

If the runways are anything to go by, it’s the hottest piece of clothing you can own this season.

Talking about seasons, it is strange how Little Red Dottians should even care very much about them - they mean absolutely nothing to us here where the heat and humidity is always cranked up.

Yet, our local magazines work themselves up into a frenzy about the Fall/Winter Season every year between July and October.

I think perhaps the key is to adapt the looks of the Fall Collection, without transplanting their functionality (i.e. to keep you warm).

Tights are one of the most easily adaptable Fall pieces.

There’s the black, opaque ones, which are under-stated but not boring:

Wear them with almost anything - baby-dolls, cropped smocks, wrap-dresses, and even shorts.

They’re near idiot-proof, and there are many reasons why you should don them. 1) They are sexy; covering those legs up with a opaque second skin only draw attention to them and 2) blacks makes legs looks slimmer than they really are

And there’s coloured ones:

Choose a deeper shade (like this red) to avoid looking OTT. Because very few people can carry off turquoise leggings.

If you think the humidity+tights combo may kill you with the resultant stickiness, choose a lighter material such as cotton lycra, to keep you cool.

Footless and past-knee lenght tights are much more LRDES-friendly than full-length ones.

Neutral/Nude colours may also be more appropriate.

When all else fails (in the fight against the tropical heat), go for stockings.

Not just any stockings, but sexy sheer ones or fancy pattern-on-lace ones. Needless to say, the peek-a-boo effect is very sex kitten, in a tasteful way (if you cover up the rest of your body and not bare much more than necessary).

And that’s that

 

 

 

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