Tights ditching boring black for vibrant colours
BLAIR Waldorf strikes again. Gone are the days of streetwear and other staples of popular culture as the fashion industry looks to return to a more elitist style.
And this is reflected in the influx of colourful tights, spotted in every shade, evoking a wardrobe straight out of the Upper East Side in New York City.
Here’s what you need to know about this trend, seen on catwalks as well as on the street.
To brighten up our lives, the fashion world is splashing our closets with a whole range of colours.
Here, it’s not about full-on dopamine dressing, as has been the case in the past, but about livening up wardrobes by means of a very specific accessory: tights.
While some millennials are undoubtedly traumatised by the mere sight of coloured tights (remember those pink or yellow wool tights that were very much in vogue in the early 1990s, it goes without saying that designers and major fashion houses have set about making these accessories more desirable than ever.
In fact, this time around, they’re more reminiscent of the kind of thing Blair Waldorf from the TV show ‘Gossip Girl’ might wear, rather than the typical garb of a 6-year-old, and that’s good news.
Early last year, we were already reporting on the advent of the Plazacore aesthetic, which aimed to reconnect women with the colourful tights regularly paraded by Blair Waldorf and her sidekicks on every street corner of the Upper East Side.
Now they’re back, spotted on the catwalk, on red carpets, in street-style looks at fashion shows, and finally... on the street.
It’s a trend that may take you back, depending on your age, to the fashions of the 1970s or 1990s. While Versace, Vivienne Westwood and Thom Browne were among the first fashion houses to bring coloured tights to the forefront, they now seem to be increasingly present in people’s wardrobes.