Attention hosiery manufacturers:

[kelliem]

Ahem.

Making a pair of tights longer does not also magically render them wider. When I buy a pair of plus-sized tights, I do not want a pair which would fit someone who is seven feet tall and of average weight. I want a pair that fits someone of average height who is pleasingly plump. This should not be a difficult thing to grasp. I don't want to pay good money for a pair that somehow manages to be both saggy and binding.

Grrrrr.

Comments

[isilya]

Oh, yes, like stockings, but instead of being all light and filmy, they are thick, opaque tights.

I mean, I have stockings too, but I tend to shred them on the first wear. The gripper band I find reasonably comfortable, though I'm not plus-size, but it basically grips onto your flesh with a slightly tacky wide plastic band. When I take them off, I have that sore red place like when any elastic cuts into you.

Which is why a garter belt sounds like a much more sane alternative.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Huh, interesting. I've never seen heavy opaque tights made like stockings. Where do you buy them?

[isilya]

The best ones I've found (even better than the more expensive department store brands) were from Target, though that's Australian Target. You want a nice high denier number for thicker tights.

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I suspect if this is yet another of those places where the US is backward and deficient. I am pretty sure I've never seen those in the US. I will have to do some googling to see if I can find a US supplier.

[isilya]

Sueded tights are definitely the best. :)

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I bet. :)