Springtime in chocolate brown tights.
by Kaj
Events and non-events
This week I had my “winter holiday” and I spent it at home and in the garden, cleaning the windows and doing all the things you usually do in springtime. In the beginning the weather was very warm, almost 20 degrees Celsius, and the sheer tights that I wore together with shorts felt almost too warm. But in the end of the week the temperature sunk and the amount of deniers rose every day. I bought from the local department store a pair of 40 denier chocolate brown 40 denier tights.
Norlyn is a Finnish brand and you find it in almost every supermarket. There is neither luxury nor anything special about the tights, but I found the colour attractive. They are smooth and harmless. Above are two pictures of me sitting on the stairs in front of the main entrance of our house.
To be honest I was inspired to buy those tights by a friend of mine, Miss P., whom we invited for a dinner for some weeks ago. After the meal Miss P. and I went out to the back yard patio for a cigar. Miss P wore a short miniskirt and chocolate brown opaque tights, I khaki coloured shorts and a pair of Falke Seidenglatt 40 denier ‘powder’ coloured tights. The sun was shining, and we sat side by side and next to each other, stretching our legs, chatting about the serious thing in life, love and death. I felt very comfortable and I was thinking that this is just the right way to exist, naturally in a pair of tights in front of a good friend, something that I did not dare to even dream about for some ten years ago.
Yesterday my two sons, Mr. T. and Mr I. brought their friends and their second cousins to our house. All in all eight from 10 to 13 years old boys and girls. Of course they had met me before while I have worn shorts and tights, but not as a dark shade as chocolate brown. I was curious about their reactions, and was ready to answer their questions and had already some witty arguments to their objections. I performed them a song accompanying me on an electric guitar and later they observed me very carefully when I prepared the dough for home made pasta. To my disappointment no one asked me anything abut my very visible tights, I didn’t notice even a stolen glance. And those kids are by no means shy or excessively polite.
Later I tried to find out how to analyze the lack of reactions, the total non-event. Maybe my outfit was so natural or maybe tights on a man is simply the right thing. ‘The times they are a-changin.’
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Hi Kai. nice pix....I don't think most children take notice of our tights.
I am the father og 4, and none of my children have ever had any comments.
But i have never worn tights visible in front of their friends.
Hej Johs!
Hi Kai.
Thank you, Kaj for your post and for the photographs. As you say, tights
are 'harmless', so why do so many people get hangups about them? Anyway -
another good experience for you.
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