Superhero films spark new craze for tights among men
The latest raft of comic book hero films like The Dark Knight have sent sales of tights for men soaring.
UK stockists are reporting record sales of sheer, patterned and support tights for men. Retailers say men's tights are not being sold as fetish garments, but as practical, comfortable and stylish everyday wear.
"I don't know what is going on – sales have gone mad," said Kieran Hughes, director of the tights stockists Precious Collections.
"In the past two months we have gone from selling 300 pairs of tights a month to men in the UK, to selling more than 1,000."
Men give three reasons for donning skin-tight legwear. Some simply like the added insulation they bring underneath trousers. Others put them on under shorts for cycling and claim they bring such health benefits as back support. And a few even claim that tights are the latest symbol of metrosexuality.
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Frenchmen fighting for the right to wear skirts
Dominique Moreau is a trail blazing freedom fighter, a man battling for equality and recognition in a world of prejudice and gender-based stereotypes
"Today, millions of men around the world wear skirts, like the sarong in Asia or the djellaba in Africa, without being bothered," he insists. "Why not us?"
Moreau is the president of Hommes en Jupe (Men in Skirts), an association of about 30 men in Poitiers, western France, who don skirts to go about their everyday lives. For them, getting dressed in the morning is less about style and more about political substance: they are fighting to reclaim an item of clothing last worn by Frenchmen more than 500 years ago.
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