The royal wedding brought together the world in celebration. This year’s Jubilee shan’t be any different. So many different creative names have already made their mark for the event, but the fashion industry has been one of the most noticeable.

Designers like our good friend Henry Holland are leading this new, miniature movement to make beautiful clothing designs in time for one of this nation’s most anticipated events.

Mr Holland’s contribution is something wonderful.

Many designers are going after something very original this season. They’ve sampled the Union Jack and other symbols of Old Blighty, and use them as a feature of their fashion tights. Henry Holland has decided to not alter something so iconic.

The world famous red, white and blue has been preserved beautifully in his Rule Britannia Fashion Tights. Without the distraction of extra features and motifs, the wonderful colours and patterns of a symbol we all know can shine through.

These gorgeous tights are designed for one purpose. When some of the most wonderful traditions of the British Isles are being revived and relived, you can show your pride. These days are momentous ones, so let the world see it.

This is something that’s been on my list to write about for some time. I actually have a list of things that deserve a review or a blog post, and this product has been on it for a while. It’s earned one many times over.

Leg Avenue Corset Fashion Tights are one of our oldest designs. From the first days that we branched out from simple sheers and opaques to complex fashion, it’s been Leg Avenue that we’ve looked to for guidance. Their designs are creative and ambitious, their photography stops you in your tracks and their fashion tights are more interesting than any other brand we’ve ever had work with us.

The great thing about their fashion tights is they never have to try to be chic or stylish. They aren’t interested in manipulating a person’s conceptions about lace or altering seams for a dynamic new effect. They are happy to say “no one’s ever put a Jolly Roger on a pair of tights before.” Then they go and do it.

Well, Corset Fashion Tights proved to be one of their best ideas. They’ve been with us since we first brought the brand on board, years ago. And finally they’ve announced that the design won’t be produced any more.

These are the last few pairs of the Corset Fashion Tights around, and a shame it is too.

Not an overly complex or convoluted design, Corset is chic, sharp and most of all, fun. That’s everything that Leg Avenue has strived to be, fun being the first on their list.

Simplicity matters in fashion, just like it does everywhere else. Why are some things made more complex than they really need to be?

If you want to evoke a season with your designs, pick something that embodies that time of year. Add it carefully to whatever you’re doing and make the image suggest something.

Oroblu have designed the perfect pair of Spring fashion hold ups. Sindy is not just good, it is perfect. Take away anything else from your field of vision, it won’t work. Add anything more, and the delicate structure will fall apart.

Sindy Fashion Hold Ups suggest the season of Spring with their fragile butterflies, and their sparkling crystals, made to look like morning dew.

By taking away from the design, Oroblu leave room for your legs to be seen. The butterflies are only there to draw the eye, after all. It’s your legs that keep them there.

A company can’t say that’s its helpful until it goes out of its way to help people find what they’re looking for.

For a very long time now, we’ve been asked for fashion hold ups, with coloured legs and an ivory top. We mostly fizzled out on this one, mainly because it’s difficult to find items like that, but when they exist and you see them, you get them for your customers, no matter the hassle.

Oroblu Daisy is the first design I’ve seen, in all the time I’ve been asked about it, that has this kind of colour scheme. It was light putting down a very heavy weight when Dawn cam across it. “There! That’s what we’ve been looking for.”

On closer inspection, you’ll notice how beautiful Oroblu’s fashion hold ups can really be. And this one is in leopard print, no less. A very popular and very in vogue pattern at the moment. the gloves and the rustic lace bring vintage outfits to mind, and the leopard print looks like classic Jazz Era extravagance. But this design is unique and very different to what you and I have seen before. So whilst we’re doing our best to be helpful, I’ll say it’s entirely up to you what you wear them with. Good news, it seems Oroblu know what we’re talking about too.

Sometimes, you can tell when a relationship is going to be long and fruitful the moment you meet a new group of people. Sarah Borghi is one of our most recently added brands, and their fashion tights have been well-loved from the very first day. Their designs sold faster than most we’ve ever hosted here, but they’re designs captured our hearts from day one.

I’m very glad that one of their new designs is now with us, and I’m even more glad that it embodies exactly what I think fashion should try to be. Lucilla is such a beautiful piece of design work that we decided to put it on our homepage.

Solid black lines on a off-white or sheer black leg are almost Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in style, and we’ve seen similar, but none that have performed a drastic turn around at the last minute and left the upper thigh bare. They’re mock hold ups, I suppose. And they’re vertically striped, which is always a strong pattern to choose. Sarah Borghi Lucilla Fashion Tights are simple and clean, without interruption. They’re adaptable to the workplace and the dancefloor, and look equally as good against both backdrops. Flexibility and simple beauty are the pillars of classic design.

This is why we’re so struck by Sarah Borghi, and why we know in our bones they’ll be with us for long time yet.

Good art is what you see between the brush strokes. Between the notes, the colours or the curves. Miss Oroblu Idole Fashion Tights are black, primarily. But it’s the white plumes of smoke that suggest so much more.

The only solid presence are the white butterflies in the centre. Their size and shape grab your attention, but only to hold it there. To set the scene. It’s the rest that’s far more interesting.

Mostly petals and stems, Idole is a ghostly, beautiful floral pattern. It’s not an ordinary pick for floral, but Miss Oroblu thinks differently from most designers. There is no need to repeat what has already been when you have an inexhaustible supply of creativity.

I’d be repeating myself, saying Miss Oroblu’s designs are no ordinary fashion tights. They aren’t, anyone can see it, but it bares repeating. Miss Oroblu have some of the cleverest designers in the business. They refuse to dust off a box of conventional solutions. They design what will be other people’s solutions. Idole is the result…. this season. There’s more, and there always will be.

Jonathan Aston are the fashion tights wing of Melas, one of our most trusted and loyal brand families. They’ve gotten that place in our hearts by releasing great collections each and every season and never letting us down when it comes to their work.

But what’s special about this fashion tights range is it’s opening product.

Everyone likes to start with a strong piece, but I dare say Jonathan Aston have used their most exciting design as their opener. Bouquet Fashion Tights are a sharp, rich and incredibly bright design.

The richness of the scarlet roses, next to the mint green leaves, are immediately noticeable. But look a little beyond that. For me, it’s the nude leg that’s the most genius part of the design.

These images may have been put on a coloured leg, perhaps a white one, by less accomplished designers. But against the nude, cosmetic backdrop, the contrast between neutral and sharp colours is glaring.

All of this isn’t to say that what’s to come won’t be spectacular. Jonathan Aston has opened strong, but they may very well follow with the outstanding.

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Last week we talked about one of London Fashion Week’s most important trends. Leggings managed to make a prominent name for themselves on the catwalks. Nearly big name designer featured them and I’m ecstatic about it.

This new trend couldn’t have come at a better time. Our own designers have given us their Spring/Summer works, and leggings have not gone unnoticed.

One design that required musing on was Oroblu Viviette. It’s somewhat previous for Spring, but just on time for the early bird fashionistas.

Leggings have been featured heavily in the fashion world recently, but so have their makers. Oroblu have taken up a sizable portion of this blog’s editorial space, amongst others, but for good reason.

Oroblu is an incredible designer, and the photos they’ve chosen could scarcely be better. Every season, they show everyone what it means to be on the knife edge of fashion.

Whilst these leggings look like they’re made of velvet, as the name alludes, they’re a complex blend of cotton, mostly, as well as Nylon and Elastic. The materials make these tights incredibly comfortable and ideal for Summer heat waves. Whilst everyone is looking decidedly flustered, you can stand out as the dedicated standard of style.

The pattern is a little difficult to decipher, but beautiful. Earthy, varied and rich, the chosen imagery reflects how Oroblu thinks about leggings. They should be robust and substantial. Oroblu Viviette is nothing less than that.

London Fashion Week closed yesterday. It was an exceptionally good one this time around, by all accounts. Burberry and McQ claimed the catwalk as their own and stole the show.

It’s important to report on fashion as a whole, as it all influences the rest, but one particular trend that’s been seen over the last week is perfect for leg wear lovers. Leggings were heavily featured in this season’s show.

The above were leggings by designers Clements Ribeiro and Issa, respectively. They’re truly beautiful pieces when they paired with the rest of the outfit. Leggings have been popular for years, but high fashion has mostly stuck with sheers.

This could be the beginning of leggings, an everyday fashion item, be included in the hallowed halls of high fashion. It may very well signal the start of opaques and thicker leg wear being an interesting and versatile addition to more formal outfits.

Fashion is what we make of it, so over the next few posts, I’ll be showing you some of the best leggings around and we’ll see if we can’t bring leggings into the realm of stylish, as well as that of casual wear.

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Although UK Tights is comprised of, for the most part, intelligent individuals who work in a synchronised, almost majestic manner, we can make the most astounding faux-pas.

When I saw the new Le Bourget Denim Look Butterfly Leggings, I thought that we had started selling jeans.

Leggings like these are some of the most exciting, in my opinion. With the versatility that thick and durable material provides, plenty of manufacturers take the opportunity to decorate their designs beautifully. They really go to town on the fabric like well poised, grown up finger painters, wild with creativity and imagination.

Not only have they managed to make these leggings authentic, like some kind of optical illusion, but they’ve also managed to add something beautiful and different to the mix.

A triumph on all fronts.