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Tights are the real deal

Posted by Stacy on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:38 PM

I seriously haven't gone out one night this year without seeing a girl wearing tights in some form. I feel like tights were something that we looked at our parents wearing in pictures and laughed at a few years ago, but now they are back and seriously bigger than ever.

There are so many ways to wear tights. I personally have black solid tights, black sheer, grey, white and pink. I sometimes wear them under skirts or dresses when they are short or it is really cold out. I remember when we were in high school and tights were starting to get popular and we would wear them under skirts we knew would break the dress code and we thought we were beating the system in some kind of way. But I wear tights sometimes with a long sweatshirt and my boots to class when I'm lazy.

I see people everywhere wearing them though. I was surprised how many people wore them as part of their Halloween costumes. It seems like there is no way that you can't wear tights now. It wouldn't surprise me no matter how weird the person was wearing them, they are always in style.

I always wonder though what will happen when we are older and have kids. We look back at our parents pictures and laugh about how silly we thought they looked and can't believe that they were really dressed ‘in style'. Are our kids when we are our parent's age going to do that? Or will they still be wearing tights like we are and our parents did. I look at my closet now and think that everything looks good and is pretty timeless (I wear a lot of black and white and jeans). So it really makes me wonder how long it will take for the clothes I am wearing now to go out of style and be laughed at by some teenager. Until then though, I am going to wear my UGG boots with my tights and over sized sweatshirt and my cute going out tops and pray that they are in style for at least a little while since I have spent so much money that I don't have shopping these past few years. And maybe when I am an adult and have kids (and way more money to replace my clothes) I will look back at those styles and laugh too.