But first, a couple of things to remember about choosing stockings for the hot season.
1) Avoid anything with a control top. Not only are control tops tights massively uncomfortable, they also don’t allow your skin (including your delicate bits) to breathe. For women, that’s a special concern since the combination of dark, damp, and dense can lead to yeast infections.
2) Make sure that whatever hosiery you buy has a cotton gusset. Cotton (unlike nylon) allows air both in and out which is essential to preventing, well, you know.
3) The lower the denier the better. For people unfamiliar with the word, denier refers to the density of the hosiery fibers, and is given in number form. The lower the denier, the sheerer the stocking. For summertime, you want to look for deniers of approximately 15 or below, with single digit deniers being ideal.
Great advice and loverly picks Treacle. Heat around the feet is another reason to not love tights in the good old summertime.
Perhaps your fellow addicts might benefit from a feature on footless / toeless tights sometime soon.
Heat index put us well over 100f yesterday. I am afraid zero denier is just about right for now… :(
Everything you wrote down there is news to me, so I learned a lot, thanks. Great post, lovely pics.
Have a super day!
Colin.
Commando! Best solution to prevent yeast infections. :) It's a great season for slips.
Great post and great suggestions. I was just talking with my girlfriend about hose in summer, and she believed in a hard cut off date, like June 1st. I argued that hose can (and should, lol!) be worn all year long.
And those 8 denier Wolfords! Oh my goodness! Swoon.
Denier…thanks for the vocab lesson! Didn't think I would ever consider wearing stockings in the summer, but I just may…
Great, I just totally misspelled my own domain. This one should work
I think you can still pull off tights in summer as long as they're not made out of wool!
I agree with you Kate, especially if you are working in an office or professional environment. I had no idea about summer stockings and the deniers. Thanks ladies!