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Kate and her flesh-toned stockings are the talk of the town - but can nude tights ever truly be chic
How did nude tights become the height of fashion? That the once rather dowdy look is now finding favour with the editor-at-large of the oh-so fashionable Japanese Vogue, Anna Dello Russo, is all down to one family. You guessed it. The Middletons.
Kate Middleton is quite old-fashioned... but when she was wearing fleshy, nude stockings it looked so avant-garde, she said. I think she has the kind of personality to make them modern.
While you might not take her word for it that fleshy, nude stockings are suddenly the height of fashion, it seems the Middleton effect both Kate and Pippa favour nude tights has sent sales soaring.
Style statement: The Duchess of Cambridge has worn flesh-toned tights on all her recent engagements and during her tour of Canada
Debenhams saw sales of sheer tights lift by 65 per cent in the two weeks following the Royal Wedding in April. This spring/summer, following the royal tour of Canada and the U.S., when Kate wore sheer tights almost every day, sales were up a quarter on last year.
Marks & Spencer, too, saw sales of sheers soar by more than a third compared to 2010. The best-selling sheer tights at M&S this year have been the 10 Denier Ladder Resist Tight in Natural Tan, selling nearly 40 pairs an hour.
Even chic American women long stalwarts of the bare, tanned, hairless leg, even in the depths of winter are adopting the look.
The demand for very sheer, nude and transparent looks is being driven by London, an executive at tights company Kayser-Roth Hosiery told Womens Wear Daily. Its about being elegant.
Since the mid-Nineties, sheer hosiery has been abandoned by women, worn only if the office dress code demands it. I havent worn a pair of tights for 20 years because I think they look unstylish. Those orangey American tan tights are seen as something our mothers used to wear.
Before Kate came along, none of us would have dreamed of wearing tights, other than black opaque ones.
Kate knows she needs to appear with flawless legs (i.e., no cellulite, veins or bruises), but also that opaque black tights, which she adored in her student days, are no longer elegant enough.
Like Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Kate has opted for sheer and voila! suddenly, a tanned, bare leg looks a little cheap and disrespectful.
Runs in the family: Kate's mother Carole and her sister Pippa are also fans of nude tights
Joanna Townsend, hosiery buyer for Debenhams, which has brought out a range of sheer tights for different skin tones, says: Nude hosiery is a womans weapon to fight the onset of winter, when wearing black opaque tights is too depressing on a golden autumn day.
Soozie Jenkinson, head of lingerie design at M&S, thinks sales are also on the rise thanks to new technology making them easier to wear.
Our sales of sheer tights have increased this year, not only thanks to Kate Middleton, but because weve used innovative ladder-resist technology, she says.
How did nude tights become the height of fashion? That the once rather dowdy look is now finding favour with the editor-at-large of the oh-so fashionable Japanese Vogue, Anna Dello Russo, is all down to one family. You guessed it. The Middletons.
Kate Middleton is quite old-fashioned... but when she was wearing fleshy, nude stockings it looked so avant-garde, she said. I think she has the kind of personality to make them modern.
While you might not take her word for it that fleshy, nude stockings are suddenly the height of fashion, it seems the Middleton effect both Kate and Pippa favour nude tights has sent sales soaring.
Style statement: The Duchess of Cambridge has worn flesh-toned tights on all her recent engagements and during her tour of Canada
Debenhams saw sales of sheer tights lift by 65 per cent in the two weeks following the Royal Wedding in April. This spring/summer, following the royal tour of Canada and the U.S., when Kate wore sheer tights almost every day, sales were up a quarter on last year.
Marks & Spencer, too, saw sales of sheers soar by more than a third compared to 2010. The best-selling sheer tights at M&S this year have been the 10 Denier Ladder Resist Tight in Natural Tan, selling nearly 40 pairs an hour.
Even chic American women long stalwarts of the bare, tanned, hairless leg, even in the depths of winter are adopting the look.
The demand for very sheer, nude and transparent looks is being driven by London, an executive at tights company Kayser-Roth Hosiery told Womens Wear Daily. Its about being elegant.
Since the mid-Nineties, sheer hosiery has been abandoned by women, worn only if the office dress code demands it. I havent worn a pair of tights for 20 years because I think they look unstylish. Those orangey American tan tights are seen as something our mothers used to wear.
Before Kate came along, none of us would have dreamed of wearing tights, other than black opaque ones.
Kate knows she needs to appear with flawless legs (i.e., no cellulite, veins or bruises), but also that opaque black tights, which she adored in her student days, are no longer elegant enough.
Like Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Kate has opted for sheer and voila! suddenly, a tanned, bare leg looks a little cheap and disrespectful.
Runs in the family: Kate's mother Carole and her sister Pippa are also fans of nude tights
Joanna Townsend, hosiery buyer for Debenhams, which has brought out a range of sheer tights for different skin tones, says: Nude hosiery is a womans weapon to fight the onset of winter, when wearing black opaque tights is too depressing on a golden autumn day.
Soozie Jenkinson, head of lingerie design at M&S, thinks sales are also on the rise thanks to new technology making them easier to wear.
Our sales of sheer tights have increased this year, not only thanks to Kate Middleton, but because weve used innovative ladder-resist technology, she says.