Things to Do with Tights

Tights, tights, tights, they always seem to get holes and runs.
Not only that, but they are not cheap either so here are some tips for tights!

-Buy your tights a size larger than the height/weight chart tells you to. Buying your tights a size larger means that the material is not pulled as taught and therefore less prone to get holes... I wouldn't recommend doing this with mesh tights because they tend to be a little less stretchy and therefore baggy.

- Wash your tights by hand. I don't follow this rule because I go through a pair of tights a day at least but if you can, washing them by hand doesn't make them lose their colour and stretchiness the way a washing machine and dryer will.

Old tights: If you have tights with holes that simply won't go away no matter how much darning it takes try using them for something else such as:

- Warm up shirts! Cut out the crotch of the tights (don't make too big of a hole or it will fall off your shouders) and cut of the feet of your tights. Turn upside down and voila you have a shirt. It might look nice if you dyed it a pretty colour!

- Shelf bra for leotards, make the warm up shirt and then put it on under a leotard you have sans lining. Then mark where you will need to cut the tights so that they are not visible. Take the leotard and warm up shirt off and cut along your markings. Sew the new shelf bra into your leotard, for added support you could double the tights up.

- Hair elastics, cut the legs across horizontally. You can use these as a hair bands too!

- Waist belts, cut the elastic waist band out of your tights

- Footless tights... just cut off the feet if they have holes in them. My school will not allow these to be worn in class but for most summer schools and open classes these are a nice change!

- Dog toy, braid/knot together a couple of the legs


Now go find that pile of old tights you have lying around xxx <3