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upright|thumb|200px|Drawing of tights with reinforced gusset|crotch and toes. Actual most similar item can be with seams on the sides of the legs or seamless

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upright|thumb|200px|Drawing of tights with reinforced gusset|crotch and toes. Actual most similar item can be with seams on the sides of the legs or seamless

Tights are a kind of cloth garment, most often sheathing the body from the waist to the toe tips with a tight fit, hence the name. They come in absolute opaque, opaque, sheer and fishnet styles — or a combination, such as the original concept of the American term pantyhose with sheer legs and opaque panty. A variant, toe tights, are tights with individual toes, in the same way toe socks are socks with individual toes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tights” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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