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Sunday, April 26, 2009

What are dancing tights

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Tights are a kind of fabric that covers the leg tightly, most of the times extending from the feet high up to the waist. Going back many centuries ago tights have been worn by men as an everyday part of their clothing. Presently tights are worn specifically by women and young girls, also young male and female babies wears tights. Although in the last few years, with more male athletes deciding to wear it, tights has been already been considered as part of men’s fashion style and soon tights will eventually become a unisex type of garment.

The difference between tights and a woman’s pantyhose is known by the weight and the thickness of the knitted garment, anything that comes within 40 denier is called a pantyhose and anything that comes over are branded as tights.
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Most tights used today are made up of cotton or nylon and includes Lycra most of the times, to improve the fit and allows user more comfortability. Athletes use tights that usually have a “stirrup” on it that goes along and under the athlete’s foot in order to attach down the cuff nearby the ankle. While in woman fashion terms “leggings” describes those unfitted tights.

Tightshave been worn by men of class or nobility many centuries ago, it was then created as a fitted fabric for horseback riding but during the time of the popular of England King Henry VIII tights are well known as a form of male fashion and was highly used by men of that era.

Tights have since then become a part of the fashion style of the theater world especially black tights, particularly included among the Renaissance period costumes for plays and dances where the use of tights is prevalent.

DanceTights are also used by young girls especially in ballet classes and performance, gymnastics and a number of dances. In horseback riding, tights are worn during the summer or as a form of undergarment during the winter. In places where there is warm climate, tights can be worn throughout the year.

In the world of sports, tights are now used in a number of sporting events like cycling, wrestling, running, and athletics and even in football and basketball. Tights are used as coverings for the legs of cyclists and other athletic events by runners and wrestlers alike. These kinds of tights most of the time offers a much thicker form of spandex blend and are always footless.

In the NBA, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers famously wore one of the first tights in the sport, he wore it under his Lakers uniform shorts as a mean to create proper fitting in his legs and to generate much better movements. Since then many player started wearing tights in NBA games thus creating a minor controversy regarding its use.

Since its introduction early on in the history, tights have become a great part of our lives. Tights have its definite purpose and uses and incorporate an importance to those who uses it and who continues to wear it throughout time. Wearing tights brings a lot of advantage and brings good results in terms of comfort and style.

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