FASHION: The Tights Have It

"They're mad, simply mad," cooed a Los Angeles coed out shopping for her fall regalia last week. What drives the girls mad—and may well make the boys a lot madder—is this fall's latest fashion: a glove-tight, foot-to-waist cross between Ebenezer's red flannel long Johns and Fonteyn's ballet costume. The biggest thing since Bermuda shorts, the new tights emphasize that slender, leggy look everyone strives for. Children wear them for play, college girls in class under skirt or kilt; working girls and young matrons buy them for lounging costumes, fortyish ladies don them...

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