slate | First BuzzFeed came for our leggings. Now they’re back for our tights. On Thursday staff writer Diana Bruk fabricated a list of 21 reasons tights are “the most evil form of clothing.”
It is stuffed with lies and weird metaphysical claims about how tights
constrict our souls along with our bodies. It details a completely
imaginary progression of tights-wearing, whereby the tights first
“terrorize your legs with itchiness,” then pinch your bladder, then
suffocate your internal organs, then snag, then decimate your
circulation, then—in the course of their removal—tear off shreds of your
life force. I have no idea what kind of demonic stockings Bruk is
dealing with, but clearly her piece belongs more in the genre of
paranormal phenomena journalism than fashion writing. For the rest of
us, wearing tights goes something like this:
1. Pull on tights
2. Oh hey, my legs look really good
3. Pull off tights
The end! There are perhaps some variations (2.5: Tights rip. Cool, now I’m wearing ripped tights and look like Rihanna) and footnotes (it’s true that unpeeling tights feels vividly great).
But the process of donning silky legwear that conforms to the unique
shape of your thighs and calves is neither as complicated nor as
psychologically demeaning nor as physically harrowing as BuzzFeed makes it out to be.
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