Tights are the greatest fashion fraud that has ever happened in the fashion industry. Whoever designed tights and decided that they are a good idea, needs to be arrested for perpetrating crimes against fashion. Tights have never been a fashion statement and will never be.
To begin with, the available colors are horrible. When they blend colors, they look like zebra stripes, the colors of the rainbow or a bad toddler painting. Black tights look like a pair of stockings. All those are characteristics of a bizarre fashion item. If a woman wants to strike that look of being fashion less, careless and wearing things just because they are available, then tights are the way to go.