T-shirts that last and the world’s best jeans: 50 autumn wardrobe updates under £100 (some are even free)
Classic trainers, high street heels, leopard print coats … Our fashion guru shares her insider tips for those with champagne taste and a cider budget
May 2024
Closet clinic
Stocking up: how to style colourful tights – winter’s warmest fashion trend
Hosiery gets a playful makeover this season, with opaque tights and high socks that add colour and texture to any outfit
April 2023
Coloured tights: are they really ‘spring’s most controversial trend’?
They can be seen as a bit of statement, but also work as an easy way to amp up a more low-key outfit
October 2022
Forever tights? Now that’s an idea that could really have legs
As the UK gets chillier, rip-resistant tights – embraced even by fashion brands – are coming into their own
January 2022
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
Now the miniskirt is back, is it time I started wearing tights again?
I’ve always been a fan of going bare-legged, cold weather be damned, but it seems black tights are having a renaissance
October 2021
Party tights: one of fashion’s favourite trends is making a comeback
Adele, Tracee Ellis Ross, Naomi Campbell and Cardi B have all given their endorsement recently
May 2020
Brief letters
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An apology to pet food manufacturers
October 2019
Tights go green to fight sheer waste
Recycled fishnet reaches the catwalk as top brands seek a new eco-friendly image for fashion’s most disposable item
March 2019
From the Guardian archive
Nylon has a new feel – fashion archive, 1959
13 March 1959 Increased warmth, softness to the touch, and in some cases, elasticity can be found in the latest synthetic yarns
January 2019
Brief letters
Chemistry beats biology for elegance
The truth about tights: my search for a pair to end women’s hosiery hell
October 2018
Black tights or bare legs? Autumn’s crucial style debate returns
It’s the million-dollar question for power dressers everywhere: have tights come in from the cold?
April 2018
From the Guardian archive
The fashion for light stockings - archive, 1923
6 April 1923 The light stocking is very charming fashion, especially in France, where feet are not on a large scale
November 2017
Rich seam: why the fashion pack is back in love with tights
Phoebe Philo led the catwalk hosiery revival – now the rest of the fashion elite has cottoned on, producing covered up, confident and cool styles that have filtered down to the high street
June 2017
Pass notes
Can Justin Trudeau’s socks bring peace to the world?
The Canadian prime minister wore rainbow-striped socks emblazoned with ‘Eid Mubarak’ to Toronto’s gay pride parade – and it’s not his only political pair
March 2016
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
What I wore this week: fancy tights
If bare legs is at root a New York thing – cover-girl gloss underpinned with balls of steel – then the vogue for lace is very Parisian
January 2016
From the joy of capes to the great tights uprising: seven style lessons from couture
This season’s high-fashion shows have schooled us on hosiery, eggs and what the industry is determinedly calling ‘athevening’. Here’s everything we learned from the Paris catwalks
October 2015
Fashtag
When is it socially acceptable to wear black tights?
When – or if – you wear black tights reveals a lot about your status, age, class and self-image. And it signals just how much you are prepared to suffer for your look
July 2015
Sock it to me! How humble hosiery went haute
The appointment of Rihanna as creative director of US sock company Stance has cemented the fashionable status of the footwear item
