Description

Legging Tights:
Tights:
Tights are a kind of cloth garment, most often sheathing the body from the waist to the toe tips with a tight fit, hence the name. They come in absolute opaque, opaque, sheer and fishnet styles or a combination of them, such as the original concept of the American term pantyhose with sheer legs and opaque panty. Wearing of tights has a history going back several centuries, when they were worn by men. Today, they are worn primarily by women and girls. In recent years, they have been sometimes offered as men’s fashion. Athletic tights are considered unisex. Originally, leggings covered only the legs, not the lower torso; were two separate pieces; and did not contain elastic fibers, so were cut close fitting (to use less fabric) and were loose, not tight. When made of fine silk, this hosiery was considered to be a stocking. These stockings were referred to as nylons. When the separate legs were woven together with a panty that covered the lower torso up to the waist in a single, integrated format, the term pantyhose was coined, since it was a one piece construction of a panty with a pair of separate hose, one for each leg. This joining together eliminated any need for garters for holding up each separate leg covering.

Legging:
Leggings in the form of skin-tight trousers, a tighter version of the caprices ending at mid-calf or near ankle length, made their way into women’s fashion.
Leggings made from cotton-Lycra, or a cotton-polyester-Lycra combination, are more typically worn for fashion, but are also worn as exercise wear. Cotton-Lycra leggings are available in many colors, prints and designs; but black, navy and various shades of gray remain the most commonly worn.
Wearing black leggings under long, often diaphanous, skirts was part of a general fashion trend of wearing gym or dance clothes as street wear that evolved along with the fitness craze and under the influence of the movie Flash dance and the long-running Broadway show A Chorus Line. A more recent trend has been the wearing of black leggings with miniskirts.