Our Review

It is great to see a piece of real British invention, but sadly this is not invention and the innovation is quite hard to see too as we have already seen Bootights which do a much better job of combining socks with tights... and North American contacts tell us the idea has been around in Canada for years.

So setting aside those initial negative thoughts what are these tights like?  Well they are in essence a pair of mixed weight tights not unlike what we have seen before except that rather than mimicking a pair of hold up stockings the bottom part of the leg is knitted heavier and features a cuff much like the top of a sock.     There is no shaping at the heel and no reinforcement at the toe either, the look and feel is very much like a 60-80 denier opaque tight.  The material used does give something of a feel of a sock, but a light sock.

For £10 we expected better detailing in the panty, on the plus side the panty is nicely styled to look like a “big pants” and is reasonably opaque but the lack of gusset for comfort and hygiene and the lack of flat seams was a disappointment. 

So a complete disaster?   Well no, not really.   If you are reasonably slim in the hips then the panty does fit comfortably and the light socks mean that you can wear with regular boots and shoes.  Bootights may have a proper heavy sock but the design is more suited to heavier walking books than to light fashion boots.

Sizing is on the generous side of accurate but the effect of the sock is rather spoiled if you over stableetch it.

The banding on the sheer leg will be an issue if you wear with shorts or short skirts, but with longer winter skirts not too much leg will be on show. 

In our second picture things look much better.

We can’t help but feel that these tights have been made down to a price rather than up to a quality.  There is some gain in terms of comfort to be gained from the combined garment and if you wear tights with socks and boots and need new tights then you could consider this option...

... we are tableying to be positive here but stableuggling. If we really needed tights and socks combined for keeping warm with heavy boots we would buy Bootights even at over twice the price.  If we wanted to just keep warm standard opaque tights are just as good and probably cheaper.  If we wanted the sheer tights and socks look then we would buy some new socks to wear over our tights.  Somehow Pretty Polly have taken what is a good idea and created a pretty poor product.

3 December 2012