opaques

Be inspired by the show's styling and just add black opaques and platform creepers for a standout silhouette.

Holli Rogers: The Great Cover Up Holli Rogers 2011

My black opaques serve me well but with some clothes they make me look Amish.

Is it ever acceptable to wear American tan tights? Hadley Freeman 2010

The shocking increase has been attributed to a hesitancy to jump from opaques in the winter months to bare legs in the spring, as nude stockings offer an in-between of sorts.

Is Pippa Middleton Responsible For Spike In Nude Tight Sales? (PHOTO, POLL) 2011

I'll take 20 sweet summer dresses for a weekend trip but then it will be cold, and I'll have brought a pair of black tights but no winter shoes so I'll be "teaming" the opaques with incongruous coloured sandals and appearing on first glance to be suffering from the late stages of gangrene.

Face it, we all look dire on holiday | Victoria Coren 2011

I was reminded quite how simplistic and transparent earlier in the week, when I wore a pair of Henry Holland's trompe l'oeil tights – hosiery designed to look as if it's a pair of stockings and suspenders when it's just actually just 60 denier black opaques.

What I bought this week: witty tights Polly Vernon 2010

Be inspired by the show's styling and just add black opaques and platform creepers for a standout silhouette.

Holli Rogers: The Great Cover Up Holli Rogers 2011

Black opaques are a standard, but is it ever safe to venture into 'lady tights' territory?

Is it ever acceptable to wear American tan tights? Hadley Freeman 2010

If you go too dark too soon, you can only correct it with opaques.

Utopiales Poster, Part 6: Washin James Gurney 2009

Recherches expérimentalessur la cause des changemens de couleurs dans les corps opaques et naturellement colorés, ouvrage traduiut de l'anglois de Mr. Edward Hussey Delaval ... par M. Quatremère Dijonval ....

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

I have arranged dark, transparents on the left edge, mid-value opaques along the longer edge away from me, lights along the right edge and dark neutrals along the edge closest to me.

Palette Arrangements James Gurney 2008