M&S Superfit 15
by Geraden
Purely in the interests of hosiery research, you understand ...
These are what my teenage daughter wears for school. She wears a clean pair every school day, so I find five pairs in the wash at the end of the week. Three of them get thrown away each time because she will insist on putting laddered pairs in the wash. As you can see, the failure rate is pretty high. Maybe she is not as careful as I would be!
Ok, so these are Marks & Spencer multipacks, 5 individually wrapped pairs for £3.50. That is 70p a pair! They don't come much cheaper that that!
They have reinforced toe and a reinforced panty that looks like micromesh, though the legs are plain knit. As you'd expect, the seams are raised, but there is a nylon (unlined) gusset. They are what are called in French "collant en mousse". That means that the appearance as you take them out of the packet is like mousse (or foam).
The size was XL (I'm sure she does not need XL, but still) and the colour was natural tan.
They fitted me well - if rather loosely, owing to the only 3% lycra content. I was surprised that the tights were not nearly as awful as I thought they would be, but I expect that M&S have a name to keep up and would not sell absolute rubbish. Nevertheless these tights have very little of the 'strokability' factor. As my daughter has found, they do also ladder rather easily: the yarn is not very forgiving of snags and roughness on the feet or in the shoes.
However, compared with the 69p tights I found recently, the M&S Superfit are much better - they have a gusset, which the others did not, and the sizing is much more generous. These may not put a woman off tights, but neither will they convince her that tights can make her legs look and feel special and that they are fun to wear.
Hi Geraden,
Hi Sheers
I had a look in M&S today. Not many of the Superfit ones left: maybe they
are being phased out. I was surprised to see some even cheaper
tights - 15 denier "Outstanding Value" matt tights, five pairs for £2.50. I
could find no statement of fibre composition, but I would guess they are
100% nylon. They are not individually wrapped. From the packet pic, they
have reinforced brief, as one would expect. They are made in Italy (that
probably means Golden Lady). I did not buy any, but if one of my readers
has tried them, please let us know what they are like!
At least most British high schools have a uniform code that makes tights
with skirts a perfectly normal thing for girls, an option that hopefully
will remain with them into womanhood. Here in N. America, there is no
mandatory uniform at high school. The result is that teenage girls have
come up with their own uniform which at the moment is low-rise jeans
(usually with flab roll-over for those less-than-sticklike)paired with flip
flops or worse, those naff and revolting crocks. Mention pantyhose to my
daughters (now at university) and they will respond with "eww" as if they
are the most hideous and creepy item of clothing imaginable.
Hi Rich
Hi Geraden, I don't know if my daughters realise that I wear tights and
pantyhose because I only wear occasionally and discretely. I wear light
support pantyhose for hiking/snowshoeing in the winter months for extra
warmth and because I have knee trouble due to "hyper-mobile patellae". The
support tights seem to help by supporting and locating my kneecaps. If
they ever noticed my tights in the wash then they probably assumed that
they belonged to their mom!
I haven't posted here before, only a couple of times on the LAUF board
under a pseudonym.
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