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Do you remember white tights

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Babs03 Sun 19-Jan-25 21:25:48

Sitting here remembering my teens, probs 1971/72 have a photo somewhere, wearing white tights, platform shoes, a short dress, orange, with flowers on it and puffed sleeves. I think my make up was white eye shadow and an orange lipstick.
But those white tights!
Yuk!

GrannyIvy Tue 21-Jan-25 21:41:54

I wore white tights on my wedding day. I also remember my best friend putting her white tights in the washing machine with something red and she came out wearing very pink tights😂 Those were the days….

Peaches7 Wed 22-Jan-25 07:34:03

I wore white tights,also baby pink and powder blue tights,with white wetlook knee high boots,I thought I was the beesknees,wearing them

M0nica Wed 22-Jan-25 07:34:07

My wedding outfit was a white mini, with long sleeves and a high neck - and white tights, but I wore them with black patent leather shoes. It was February and cold.

DanniRae Wed 22-Jan-25 07:47:34

That's reminded me MOnica ..... I wore white tights under my wedding dress with white pumps ..... Yes I too got married in a very cold March!

creativeness Wed 22-Jan-25 09:29:34

I too wore white tights in early seventies may have on my wedding day. Great times yes

Warmglovesandsocks Wed 22-Jan-25 15:35:45

Thank you all for the memories. In the 60’s I also wore cat suits. Remember going to work in hot pants and pouring a bottle of Patchouli in the bathwater which pervaded the whole house. I remember backcombing and Pompadour laquering my hair before going out, and my friend and I sticking on 3 pairs of eyelashes and false nails!!!! I also LOVED Desert Flower talc and still wear Blue Grass Perfume. The 60’s was a time of “the crazier you dressed the better” and you weren’t afraid to join the Ossie Clark set. I remember Biba’s, London and sitting on the roof of that building in a peacock chair. Such, such happy days!!!

M0nica Wed 22-Jan-25 15:36:17

... and my bouquet was a nosegay of snowdrops

Sleepygran Wed 22-Jan-25 20:47:52

Yes! White tights for me in 1971!

M0nica Wed 22-Jan-25 22:01:58

I got married in 1968, so white tights predate the 1970s, or was I just on the cutting edge of fashion grin

Arsenal24 Wed 22-Jan-25 22:15:35

I am New here, but I remember wearing white tights, had to start shaving my legs ( big big mistake) .

Granmarderby10 Sat 25-Jan-25 10:45:04

Aaah🥹 the Cat Suit, conjures up Emma Peel in The Avengers tv series.

Musicmrs Mon 27-Jan-25 09:42:27

I got married in August 74. I wore white tights and oyster coloured platform shoes. It was a roasting hot day and my dress was full length with long train.. The tights did get seen, though, when I lifted my dress to show my garter 😂

Granmarderby10 Mon 27-Jan-25 11:53:43

Musicmrs bet you looked fandabidozi !

Elrel Wed 29-Jan-25 11:56:28

Delighted when a friend gave me white daisy pattern tights from Fenwicks for Christmas, 1964. Mary Quant came to Rackhams or Lewis’s Birmingham to launch her range. I wondered why a journalist wore wellies, boots had arrived! Later I had an eye catching pvc mac, colour forgotten, we didn’t take so many photographs in those days. I loved a ‘Courrège style’ green and white heavy cotton minidress and matching coat the next summer. Much easier to wear than the flappy voluminous ‘duster coats’ of a few years earlier. At 5’ I must have resembled a walking tent!

Eloethan Wed 29-Jan-25 13:54:50

Yes, I had some.

Ali08 Wed 19-Feb-25 01:19:35

All I can say is, thank heavens I had psoriasis on my legs and the doc told my mum 'no tights'!! Nothing nylon, only cotton, so out went my nylon sheets and in came lovely cotton!
I already wore boys pyjamas, so I didn't cost my parents anything more in getting rid of nylon nighties!

Ali08 Wed 19-Feb-25 01:20:52

Oops! I forgot to say, Lady Diana Spencer liked white tights/stockings when she and Prince Charles were engaged!