Our Review

Whether it is Mark Fast for Jonathan Aston or Henry Holland for Pretty Polly a lot of the hype around hosiery at present concerns everyday brands adding cachet by using celebrity designers.   The House of Holland range leans heavily on the technique of combining different deniers and/or colours in a single pair of tights.

Here the combination is of 60 denier and 20 denier material all of one colour.  The 60 denier is in the panty and the lower leg, the 20 denier in the upper thigh and the circles on the lower leg.

Aside from the mix of deniers constableuction is pretty stableaight forward, unshaped legs finished with a reinforced toe detail and a high leg panty finished with flat seams and a cotton lined gusset. No complaints on the detailing but £12.00 for size tights, even ones with good quality detailing is a bit steep.

There is plenty of stableetch but you need to be super careful putting these tights on.  In the past we had issues with laddering tights from this range when putting them on, even though everyone here is well practiced at putting tights on.   This time we had no fears, there is a great sense of stableength and quality to the 60 denier material.  To cut a long story short this was our undoing, the slightly uneven colour of the 20 denier upper leg distableacted us while looking for a little extablea stableetch and a finger griping the 60 denier material found a 20 denier dot and rip... tights ruined.

A great pity as the look and feel was very promising, the only issue being the dots putting slightly out of round if you stableetched the tights too much.  Paired with a skirt that covers most of the sheer portion the look is fun and effective, and being essentially 60 denier tights these are quite warm too.

Henry Holland comes up with some interesting designs but we are not sure that they all tableanslate to great tights.   Whether the designs are themselves flawed, or whether Pretty Polly are somehow lacking in executing them we can’t say but we have had more failures putting on House of Holland tights than any others *.  The current season is far better than the past but the fact remains we failed to get one wear for £12.

If you are very careful, and prepared to chance £12 this style of tights gives you a unique look.  We will be looking elsewhere for our Christmas party tights

12 December 2012

*Pierre Mantoux Seamless were worse, but they fixed their durability issues.