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June 8th, 2009
Despite many videos featuring both tights and pantyhose, there still seems to be a great deal of confusion about the differences between tights and pantyhose amongst some users of the blog. In order to hopefully get everyone up to speed, I thought I'd compare and contrast the two in order to make their differences clear for everyone. The reason I'm covering this is because people typically prefer one over the other even if they don't know the terminology, so sharing this with them will hopefully allow to find content that closely matches their interest more easily.
To begin, I'm going by the American English usage of tights and pantyhose, as the British English usage uses 'sheer tights' in place of 'pantyhose'. Either usage is fine, except that on the blog I'm using the former.
Tights and pantyhose, simply put, are different by their opacity — tights are more opaque than pantyhose. There's no real line that separates them, making identification of them in a situation subjective, but the 2 main ways of identificiation are based on appearance when worn and denier, which is the measure of the thickness of the thread used to knit the garment, which determines how transparent the final product is. In an even broader scope, tights and pantyhose are are leg garments that extend from the waist down to the tip of the toes without any openings in that distance with the exception of the crotch (a missing gusset.) Garments that don't fit this criterium are outside of my own fetish and outside of what the blog will cover.
Tights typically mask the skin tone underneath and toe detail to a greater degree than pantyhose due to the increased opacity. This means that with tights, there may be portions of the covered area which have the skin tone mostly or entirely obscured. Tights generally color and hide what is underneath, while pantyhose tint it. In terms of denier, tights start at around 40, although this is not always the case, as different pairs of the same denier may have higher or lower opacity due to color, pattern, and other factors. Dark colors tend to appear more transparent than light colors due to the difference in color between skin tone and garment. To get a sense of how the denier scale works, a denier of 10 would be very transparent, 40 would be moderately transparent, 80 would be moderately opaque, and 120 would be very opaque. To see the difference, compare the entries under the tights and pantyhose tags. If you have any more questions, you can ask me directly or post it in a comment.
To begin, I'm going by the American English usage of tights and pantyhose, as the British English usage uses 'sheer tights' in place of 'pantyhose'. Either usage is fine, except that on the blog I'm using the former.
Tights and pantyhose, simply put, are different by their opacity — tights are more opaque than pantyhose. There's no real line that separates them, making identification of them in a situation subjective, but the 2 main ways of identificiation are based on appearance when worn and denier, which is the measure of the thickness of the thread used to knit the garment, which determines how transparent the final product is. In an even broader scope, tights and pantyhose are are leg garments that extend from the waist down to the tip of the toes without any openings in that distance with the exception of the crotch (a missing gusset.) Garments that don't fit this criterium are outside of my own fetish and outside of what the blog will cover.
Tights typically mask the skin tone underneath and toe detail to a greater degree than pantyhose due to the increased opacity. This means that with tights, there may be portions of the covered area which have the skin tone mostly or entirely obscured. Tights generally color and hide what is underneath, while pantyhose tint it. In terms of denier, tights start at around 40, although this is not always the case, as different pairs of the same denier may have higher or lower opacity due to color, pattern, and other factors. Dark colors tend to appear more transparent than light colors due to the difference in color between skin tone and garment. To get a sense of how the denier scale works, a denier of 10 would be very transparent, 40 would be moderately transparent, 80 would be moderately opaque, and 120 would be very opaque. To see the difference, compare the entries under the tights and pantyhose tags. If you have any more questions, you can ask me directly or post it in a comment.
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