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Do you call light colored tights stockings?

Yes

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I call it beige tights

32%

[ 45 ]

Other

26%

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Total Votes : 138

amother

Sat, Jul 27 2024, 10:51 pm

Do you call black tights- tights and light colored-stockings?
Basically when you say tights, does it mean black? Bec otherwise you’d say stockings?
Debated this over shabbos. Is this location/community specific

mrs me

Sat, Jul 27 2024, 10:53 pm

I call the beige ones pantyhose

I call The black ones tights

That’s what my mother always said 🤷🏻‍♀️

amother

Obsidian

Sat, Jul 27 2024, 10:55 pm

I call all of it tights. Stockings feels old ladyish. Black tights and beige/ nude tights.

happy chick

Sat, Jul 27 2024, 11:08 pm

Black tights
Nude pantyhose

I don't know what beige tights are

hodeez

Sat, Jul 27 2024, 11:08 pm

Everything that's not leggings I call tights

amother

NeonGreen

Sat, Jul 27 2024, 11:33 pm

I say clear tights

amother

Dustypink

Sat, Jul 27 2024, 11:51 pm

Sheer of any color : stockings.
Opaque of any color : tights

So in the summer in wear nude stockings
In the winter I wear black tights
To a wedding I wear black stockings

ra_mom

Sun, Jul 28 2024, 12:02 am

Thin skin colored hose is pantyhose

sequoia

Sun, Jul 28 2024, 12:03 am

I call knee-highs stockings…

amother

Lightgray

Sun, Jul 28 2024, 12:11 am

I call it tights. Not beige tights. Just tights or nude tights

amother

Chicory

Sun, Jul 28 2024, 12:11 am

Its stockings. Plain and simple.

Dark opaque is tights

Debbie ↓

Sun, Jul 28 2024, 1:34 am

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amother

Cadetblue

Sun, Jul 28 2024, 1:37 am

sequoia wrote:

I call knee-highs stockings…

But what if they aren't knee highs??

↑ Debbie

Sun, Jul 28 2024, 1:40 am

[quote="Debbie"]I call them tights; I'm English and tights can be anything from 5 denier to 250 denier.
Stockings are generally held up with a suspender belt/ garter belt; the self hold up ones are generally known as either knee highs or thigh highs.

Last edited by Debbie on Sun, Jul 28 2024, 1:45 am; edited 1 time in total

mandr

Sun, Jul 28 2024, 1:42 am

Tights for all colors. Stockings sounds old fashioned and I don’t like saying the word panty in regular conversations with people!

amother

NeonYellow

Sun, Jul 28 2024, 2:31 am

UK English

Tights = whole legs and pelvis covering to your waist in any denier. One piece

Stocking = thigh highs, any denier

Knee highs = knee high, stocking /tight material

Leggings = footless, usually thicker material mostly for exercise but can be worn under clothes

Socks = ankle or knee length in thicker (usually cotton) material

amother

Lawngreen

Sun, Jul 28 2024, 3:46 am

amother NeonYellow wrote:

Agree. But also, in my UK circles anyway, we also call knee-highs "pop socks". In fact when I was growing up, that is all they were ever called.

Elfrida

Sun, Jul 28 2024, 5:09 am

amother Lawngreen wrote:

Agree. But also, in my UK circles anyway, we also call knee-highs "pop socks". In fact when I was growing up, that is all they were ever called.

My mother tried to sound trendy, and very awkwardly referred to them as pop socks. It never stuck. I'd forgotten that term until you mentioned it.

amother

Nemesia

Sun, Jul 28 2024, 11:48 am

Thin, sheer or partly sheer hose that reach the waist are called pantyhose. Tights are opaque, heavy, sturdy and suitable for elementary school children or winter wear. Stockings are hose of any type that reach mid-thigh and are held up by garters or by a band of tight elastic at the top. The sheer ones also used to be called "nylons." Socks are hose that reach anywhere from the ankle to just below the knee. They are usually heavy and sturdy. If they're made of the same material as pantyhose, they're usually just called knee-highs.

Then there were leg warmers, which were heavy knit footless tubes like sleeves for legs. They were introduced as a means of keeping dancers' leg muscles warm when practicing in chilly studios and were adopted by wannabes hoping to imply that they were so physically active that they needed to keep their calves warmed up at all times. They disappeared from the fashion scene quite a while ago and are therefore due for a comeback.

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