ALL WOMAN  

20 denier Plus Size tights - fit from UK22 to UK42 

-these tights fit tall women or small women with plus size hips and plus size thighs - 
sold as a single item or in a 3 pack 

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

Gemma our model is modelling the smaller size of our ALL WOMAN tights size 22-32

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.

It was a soul destroying three months.  Her Italian wasn’t up to persuading receptionists to allow her to speak to the decision makers within the companies.  She did manage to learn that the problem was the barrel on which the tights are knitted.  All manufacturers use a standard sized barrel and that dictates the amount of stretch in the thighs. ‘You can’t have tights bigger than the barrel’ they told Laura. ‘What about getting a bigger barrel?’ Laura suggested. They insisted that nobody needed tights knitted any different to what was already available and when she insisted that this wasn't true and that a bigger barrel was the only way to solve the problem they shook their heads and threw their hands into the air, ‘There is no problem and there is no bigger barrel.’  Dead end! 

Making them longer proved to be a problem too.  Not technically a problem….. but a problem non the less, because Italian men, not being overly tall could see no point in making their tights any longer.  ‘Why you want these tights longer, they long enough, they fit ME’ they grinned, proud of their stocky, small torsos and their broken English. 
Eventually, Laura had some unbelievable luck from which all of you plus size ladies are now able to reap the benefit.  She was driving back to Parma after a particularly unproductive day when she stopped to take a mobile call. As she spoke, she noticed that she was parked outside a small lingerie factory. The facia looked in need of a lick of paint as did the office door. Laura decided to give it a go, walked up to the building and rang the bell. The door was opened by a tall, plus size, forty-something Italian woman.  It turned out that the factory had recently been left to Francesca by her grandfather and she was feeling quite overwhelmed with the thought of how she was to modernise it.  Laura recognised her opportunity and grabbed it.  Francesca’s ample thighs and heavy hips meant that she was aware of the problem with tights and hardly ever wore them, she was, however, polite enough to listen to Laura’s theory that a bigger barrel was needed, NOT extra width in the gusset.  Together they worked out how big this barrel needed to be and what size minimum order would make it worthwhile for Francesca to go to the huge amount of trouble - not to mention the expense of commissioning such a barrel to be made for her.

That was all some years ago…….. the All Woman range has proved so successful that the first batch we brought in from Italy sold out within a year. We now have the All Woman tights in three shades and stacked up in the warehouse in thousands so that we never run short 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. 

In 2013 we introduced the All Woman Opaques


All Woman Opaques - Plus Size UK22/32


Besides our All Woman Opaques, we also have a wide selection of other Plus Size Opaque / thick tights .....  LARGE TIGHTS

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Customer comments:

Hi,

Just tried a pair of the tights I bought from you via ebay. Would just like to say a big THANK YOU for tights that fit properly.

Are you able to supply them in a thicker denier please? The ones I bought were All Woman 20 denier fit up to 8XL.

Catherine  5th Jan 2012

Our reply:-    Yes, we've got them now, our own All Woman Opaques - see the link above.

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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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Hi Laura - Thank goodness we have found you. You are "the answer to a prayer."  The tights I bought aren't actually for myself but for a friend who is very disabled. I had been having great difficulty in finding comfortable tights in a suitable size for her. There's nothing available near where we live and nothing very suitable from other internet suppliers that I tried. But, Laura, thank you for all that you've been through to make these All Woman tights available, my friend is delighted with your product - you may have noticed that the order  is a repeat - no doubt she will continue to purchase from you. Thank you for solving the problem for us!  

Hilary 
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They fit, I am 5.10 and big, so its nice to get navy ones at last   Tracy B. 2nd Feb 2011

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