For many years, stylists and fashion historians literally forbade wearing fishnet tights or stockings. But recently everything has changed, now fishnet stockings are among the fashion trends. Tights or fishnet stockings, depending on the style and our intentions, will help create a variety of summer looks, from the most seductive to the office.

History

Fishnet tights gained popularity in the early 1900s, and then became a fashion sensation among flappers in 1920s... Then the tights passed to the dancers. And in the 1960s, the sexual revolution pushed many women to wear them as part of their everyday fashion.

In 1970 Over the years, punks have transformed fishnet stockings from a seductive provocation and fetishistic garment into a street scandal and teenage challenge by making torn holes in pantyhose.

In the 1980s and 1990s followers of the Goth subculture happily adorned their images with pantyhose, stockings and other wardrobe items in a mesh. Then mesh tights became part of the images in grunge style... Some designers fell in love with the mesh so much that they began to release models in mesh dresses on the catwalk. Such dresses have not lost their relevance, in many recent collections you can see an abundance of mesh with different cells.

Now the scandalous history of fishnet tights has remained in the distant past, they no longer carry the vulgar connotation that was in them before. Today, a mesh of various types and sizes can be part of a dress and any other wardrobe item. Therefore, fishnet tights are very relevant, because not everyone decides to immediately buy a network dress, but it is easy and simple to experiment with tights.




Modern fashion allows almost everything, some designers create incredible images that destroy the generally accepted standards of beauty and make us really ugly. But if you adhere to some standards and principles, consider the following rules:

It is better not to combine tights and fishnet stockings with mini-skirts, shorts, so as not to vulgarize your image. Any boots, with heels of any height, absolutely any color, cannot be worn with such tights.

Mesh looks good with a dress or pencil skirt made of dense fabrics that reach the knee. Shoes must be closed. The ideal option is wide trousers or jeans from under which fishnet stockings slightly peep out. Ballet flats are suitable for this set, which completely remove the erotic overtones.

If you really want to create an image with a short dress or mini-skirt, choose a dress or top with a closed top made of dense opaque fabrics, without deep neckline, and better with a collar.




Color and size matter. For owners of slim (but not thin) legs, black and colored fishnet tights are suitable. Beige stockings suit everyone. In addition, it is advisable to opt for a fine mesh. The large one makes the image defiant or turns the leg into a sausage tied with threads.

But if you look at the celebrities, you can see that Kim Kardashian, Kendall jenner, Bella Hadid and many others create coarse mesh looks. In addition, many stylists and fashion bloggers recommend wearing fishnet tights. If you like this trend, you can feel free to experiment, but do not forget that a large mesh looks good only on slender legs.



Taking into account the realities of modern fashion, tights can be safely exchanged for mesh socks, which will be a great addition to cropped jeans and high-heeled pumps. If you don't have these shoes in your wardrobe, sneakers or sneakers will do.

In conclusion, it is important to note that fashion and new technologies have transformed the tights into a fishnet and brought them out of their usual format. Modern fishnet stockings and tights can have a mesh of the most bizarre shapes, from squares and rhombuses to circles, patterns resembling honeycombs, cobwebs and much more. The mesh can be independent, or it can be applied over the tights. Therefore, the choice is huge.