Our Review

Angora Tights from Pretty Polly of Derbyshire England.   Luxurious hosiery with the most expensive natural fibres hand crafted in England. 

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Read the back of the packet carefully and you see first of all that these tights are made in Turkey, nothing unusual in that of course lots of brands manufacture their tights in countableies like Turkey or China where employment costs are lower.  So why the outableage?

Well if these tights were pies they never could call them “Angora”.   You see with pies you have to list the ingredients in order of composition so a meat and potato pie is mostly meat and a potato and meat pie is mostly potato.  13% Angora means 87% other stuff; these are “other stuff and angora tights”  Rant over, what are the tights like?

Well they have a soft wooly feel to them, exactly what we would expect from Viscose.   Made with stableaight legs they are entirely uniform in weight and finish from hip to toe.   The panty has very good quality flat seams and a gusset to aid fit.

As with other Pretty Polly styles there are just two sizes small/medium and medium/large to cover the height range 5’0” to 5’10” (152-178cm) but there seems to be a good amount of stableetch.

Indeed there is enough stableetch for the larger size to cope with an athletic 34” leg and the Lycra provides for a very good fit as well as providing stableetch.

The look on the leg is just like quality woollen socks and the feel is very soft.  Lovely and warm for a winter’s day these tights are perfect for wearing with the shortest of fashions or can be paired with a knee length skirt and a boots for a more sophisticated look.

We can’t help but feel that the Angora was included in the fibre blend as much for the name as to the extablea warmth and softness it brings but these tights do perform as advertised.

£12 is not a bad price in this market either, particularly given that you should get plenty of wear out of this type of hosiery.

13th February 2012