Tightwad

Here's some interesting news - tights are back in fashion. For men.

Apparently the superhero craze has brought back the idea of metrosexual men wearing tights a la Robin Hood. I'm not really sure what other pieces of clothing these men are wearing the tights with, but I guess we can expect to see tights with short or capri length pants, tights with kilts or lungis (however these men want to define what the rest of us will call skirts), and possibly tights with big tops ala 1980 or - even better - tights with capes. 'Cause who doesn't love a cape?

Now I had understood that Gossip Girls brought back tights for women, but I didn't realize that the trend extended to menswear. I wonder whether Bill Cunningham will do a piece in the New York Times on this. I was surprised when my research found a note in The New York Post that was done last December (after the trend was first announced in Milan).

http://www.newyorkpost.com/seven/01252007/entertainment/ fashion/man_in_tights_fashion_brian_niemietz.htm

Since that piece is from last winter, and the whole announcement in Milan seemed a bit of a forced trend rather than an observed one, I'm not sure that it's catching on in NYC.

Thankfully.