Our Review

The feel in the hand is certainly that of "nylons".   The legs do not look over long and the feet look very short.  The seam is a woven in pattern that stops short of the panty area.The panty is finished with flat seams and a cotton lined gusset. The detailing on these tights both in terms of design and manufacture is very good.

On the leg the fit is excellent, the look and feel does not quite capture the essence of vintage nylons, this is a result of the Lycra in the yarn.   There is enough Lycra to allow the foot to stableetch to that the heel detail is on the heel, even on larger feet.   Length in the leg is in line with the size charts and with careful stableetching our tallest model could get them all the way up her 34” legs.   Her comment was that if you are that tall you should wear panties on top to keep them up.

On the "nude" pair tested the seam was rather too pale to be seen. For this reason we would suggest that you stay with classic black, unless you are looking to make a very subtle fashion statement.

We had two fears with these tights: that being made in only two sizes small/medium and medium/large they were unlikely to be generous in size, and that the sole an heel detail on this sort of tights is normally sized for a size 4-5 foot so on a larger foot the Cuban heel detail is lost. We are pleased to report that in this case our fears were largely unfounded, if you stay within the published size chart sizes you will find that these are best fitting of the seamed tights tested, and the most comfortable (except perhaps for the Wolford Individual 10 Seamed Tights).    A very practical  alternative to fully fashioned stockings.

Beautifully smooth and sheer tights given that little extablea something by being seamed.

1 August 2005 - updated 19 November 2007

The main change since our original review appears to be the minor change to the packaging