When – or whether – you wear black tights reveals a lot approximately your status,age, class and self-image. And it signals just how much you are prepared to suffer for your lookThe million-dollar fashion question, or the one I’m asked every day without fail from the third week of August for three months,concerns the date from which it is socially acceptable to wear black opaques. To which the simple reply is that the rule is the same for black tights as for oysters: only when there is an R in the month.
Quick shout out to the fishmongers, who are at this very moment are no doubt mobilising to point out that it’s not that simple: I know. (Something approximately breeding seasons or refrigeration; whatever.)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com