All Woman

Plus Size 20 denier tights 

-these tights fit tall women or small women with plus size hips and plus size thighs - sold as 3 pack and multi-saver 9 pack. 

available in three shades:  natural / black / coffee / navy 

These are available in two generous sizes 

UK 22/32  - hips from 40" to 60" and thighs 24" to 32"

UK 32/42  - hips 60" to 90" and thighs 32" to 40"  

To help you to assess the generous amount of 'give' in these tights, it will help you to know that our model Gemma  (with short straight hair) is 5ft 4" tall / 163 cms.  She wears a dress size UK16/18 but you will see from the photo that these All Woman tights are not ruckling round her ankles.  However, we would not recommend them if you are much shorter than 5ft 4" /163 cms 

Would you prefer to buy just one pair of these All Woman Plus Size 20 denier tights just to make sure that they are as Plus Size and roomy as we have said they are?  

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You probably don't believe that heading!  You're thinking "Oh yeh, I've heard at that before" but this time ladies, its true.  There's no big corporation at the back of this blag, no multi millionaire throwing money where he thinks there will be a vast return for his investment, just a couple of women, mother and daughter, who decided that this awful business of tights not fitting the tall and the wide had to be sorted.  It wasn't easy, in fact it has taken more than two years to bring these All Woman tights to fruition, so read on and find out how and why you can now buy tights that'll come up over your belly button and then settle down comfortably on your waist - even when there isn't much difference between your waist and your hips; then they'll stay put all day, no working down, no going south, no need to wear another pair of knickers over them to keep them up because once they're on, they're up and they stay up, and here's the story............

My daughter Laura and I own a company manufacturing plus size knickers.  We decided in 2009 to branch out and manufacture tights that would genuinely fit our customers.  We'd done it with knickers without too much pain, so why not tights.  Hah!.... manufacturing tights. Don't even think about it...... just don't go there.... its in another league.  Talk about a learning curve, folks, you have no idea.

We had learned from our customers that nobody, but nobody, was manufacturing tights that were either long enough or had enough room in the thighs.  Stories of women having to wear an extra pair of knickers over their tights to keep them from riding down as they walked were common place. Tights where the thighs were grabbing and making use of the gusset fabric because the thighs weren’t big enough were also common.  We were appalled to learn that our customers were suffering such discomfort day in day out, and we were naïve enough to promise them a quick solution to their problems.  We approached our pantyhose wholesaler and asked him to talk to his manufacturer about making tights with wider hips and bigger thighs.  There seemed to be problems with this request and eventually, we were put in touch with the manufacturer to talk through our requirements.  After a few not overly enthusiastic discussions it was agreed that a prototype should be produced.  We were very excited – until the sample pairs of ‘extra plus size’ tights arrived at the warehouse.  The manufacturer had simply widened the gusset to something like ten inches back and front and continued this fabric right up to the waist thus making the tights about 20 inches wider from waist to hips and incredibly bulky round the crotch.  We sent them to our guinea pigs whose feed back was not much more than tepid, the only agreement between them all was that these tights were slightly better than anything else on the market.

Laura decided that there was only one way forward, to go to Italy, the home of lingerie manufacturing and talk to the big manufacturers.  She would explain how the ‘extra plus size’ design fell short of what was required and get a solution to the problem once and for all.  So, in April 2009 armed with her English/Italian dictionary, Laura set off to spend three months in the north of Italy talking to pantyhose manufacturers.

That was all nearly three years ago…….. that’s how long it has taken!  But now we have the All Woman tights – 25,000 packs stacked up in the warehouse and they are exactly to the specification Laura knew she needed when she left England in April 2009.   They are long in the leg -  they wont ride down and you won’t need to wear an extra pair of knickers to keep them up.  In fact, the All Woman tights fit the Shrewsbury Town Crier and he’s 7ft 2” tall and wears a size 17 shoe.  They are wide on the hips, stretching to 100 inches if you needed them to!  And, this is going to please so many of  you, the large circumference of Francesca’s barrel means that they will accommodate very big thighs without grabbing at the gusset fabric. We have two sizes, UK 22/32 and UK 34/44 – and whether you’re tall and big boned or short and  plus size, one of those two sizes will fit you….. that’s a promise.

Customer comments:

I had a pair of your new tights recently - fitted really well, loads of room in them, great to have something that isn't going to head south as soon as you start moving in them!

Would love to see them in a heavier weight, but see from your site that these are hopefully coming. I look forward to that.

Best wishes Emma 

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