If You’re Going to Wear Tights This Winter, Wear These Exact Styles to Look Your Chicest

The other day, I was sitting around the Who What Wear UK office with some of my chicest colleagues, discussing my winter dressing philosophy. As someone who has relocated to London from Sydney, I was waxing lyrical about the plights of covering up for the cold and how, surprisingly, tights were a fail-safe wardrobe essential for both combating the freezing temperatures and helping me seem like I hadn’t lost my sense of personal style.

“Tights make me feel like I’m back in a classroom,” someone said in response, much to my dismay. With somewhat matronly connotations, thicker grey styles and fleece-lined black versions can certainly transport you to your time in sixth form. But as someone who adores the way a pair of coloured stockings or printed hosiery can inject a playful and thermal touch to any look, I considered this an opportunity to school her on the chicest tight trends that are anything but dowdy.

Indeed, the key tight trends for winter 2025 in particular are ones that stealthily enhance any ensemble. Be it a wash of primary colour or ditsy prints, these major tight trends bring an unsung bold dimension to your winter outfit that’s unrivalled by any other category. Wearing animal-print trousers or dainty pointelle leggings might feel a tad too out of comfort zones for more demure dressers and commitment-phobes alike, the key tight trends for winter 2025 resolve to add an experimental slant, whilst not being too overt.