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Men can wear tights in specific situations. Normally they are worn for athletics, costumes, or under trousers for warmth. Male Ballet dancers wear them for dance.
In most social contexts its considered inappropriate for men to wear tights. Men’s wardrobes are not well suited to wearing tights in the current era.
Tights were originally worn by men in the 13th century and went through many changes over the centuries. Men abandoned tights in favor of trousers by the 1800s.
In the late 1950s and 1960s, tights made their way over to women’s legs. They were first worn with dresses and skirts. At that time tights were viewed primarily as a female garment and have remained so as of this post.
Leggings, a new form of tights, can be worn by both men and women. For men they are typically worn in specific contexts. Women wear them as regular fashion and have followed the history of men. Women currently wear them as full bottoms or as pants. Men generally wear them with shorts.
Tights are a garment that made the transition of being a male garment originally, but were adopted by women and became viewed primarily as a female garment. As a result, men still wear them in a limited context, But it is now women who typically wear tights as the new social norm. Due to this change its often viewed inappropriate for men to wear tights in most social situations. The predominate view is its women who wear them most in society today.
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RossNot many males wear tights today. Tights were adopted by women in the fifties and sixties to wear with dresses and skirts. They were used to replace garters and stockings which women wore with dresses. However when dress hemlines began to rise garters and stockings were not not sufficient in covering the legs. This is why pantyhose were invented for women. Tights became popular to wear with mini dresses in the sixties. Since then tights have been viewed primarily as a female garment and it has been considered inappropriate for men to wear them. Leggings are a newer form of tights which have also been worn primarily by women. Its due to this current social norm that most men don’t wear tights today. The garment has been feminized over the decades and a man wearing tights is often viewed as dressing as a woman.
If they are fantasy super heroes, yes! Generally, however, in modern western culture, men no longer wear tights, although Elizabethan men regularly wore a kind of tights called "hose" instead of the more modern trousers/pants. In the army and in sports, and in many outdoors pursuits, men sometimes wear tights in place of more bulky thermal longjohns under their trousers. The only occupation where men seem to have regularly have worn some form of tights is dance, particularly ballet.
Generally speaking men do not wear sheer tights. Sheer tights were created for women to wear with dresses and skirts. Perhaps with shorts. They require the wearer to shave their legs first. Sheer tights are considered translucent, meaning the leg can be seen through the tights. Men don’t wear dresses or skirts. Most men don’t shave their legs. From a fashion standpoint there is no reason for men to wear sheer tights. If a man were to wear sheer tights it would be considered crossdressing. Most people would view it negatively and wonder why he is wearing tights line a woman.
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