Patterned tights have a way of slipping in and out of fashion, but they never quite vanish.
Once a necessity, they’ve also long served as a canvas for playful self-expression – whether it be the daring openwork lace hosiery worn by the Victorians and Edwardians, the bold and brightly-hued geometrics of the 1960s, or even the argyle and ribbed knits that found their way into school uniforms. Each decade has reinvented them, leaving behind a trail of motifs that linger in memory as much as in wardrobes.
