WHAT COLOR

WHY DOES IT MATTER?
The right colour can help flatter your legs. Co-ordinated colours look smarter. When wearing natural shades, wear something that matches your skintone or is darker.

If you want to find a particular colour you can search through all products by using the: Colour Selector. There is also a colour guide for each brand accessable from the details page of all products.

Why Wear Black?
Black always looks smart and elegant. It gives a clear outline to legs and it has a slight slimming effect. Fab in winter with darker clothes and goes with almost everything.

Why avoid Black?
If wearing pale clothes, black will make you look bottom heavy. When wearing burgundy or pink, try wearing dark grey (nearly black) or silver. Traditionally black should not be worn with navy clothes.

Why Wear Nearly Black?
A softer, and often more versatile version of black (It can have a brown or grey hue). In a low denier, nearly black hosiery can be worn with far paler coloured clothes. More flattering than black as it does not give such a hard outline to your legs.

Why Wear Blue?
Navy blue is very smart with navy clothes but is not usually worn with black. Blue hosiery can be worn with other colours, such as silver and most shades of grey. Darker colours hide more imperfections than light hosiery and even out the appearance of legs.

Why Wear Skintones?
In Winter, skin coloured hosiery worn with darker coloured clothes makes legs fade into the background, as no attention is drawn to them. In Summer, skin coloured hosiery complements more colourful summer clothes. General rule, wear hosiery that matches your skin tone or is darker than your skin tone. If naturally pale you can achieve a healthy leg look by wearing a shade slightly darker than your skintone.

How Do I Find The Best Skin Tone for Me?
The Colour Selector has categorised all skin tone products into five broad groupings:
(i) English Rose
(ii) Olive English
(iii) Mediterranean Olive
(iv) Asian
(v) African

Although obviously there are wide variations of colour within these, hopefully this guide will be sufficient to help you find what you want.

MyTights.com has split skintones between:
(i) Ultra sheers (less than 10 denier) which give a bare/nude leg look (fab for summer)
(ii) Normal skintones (sheer/10 denier plus) which are stronger and give more cover
(iii) Other products