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We notice tights made for boy in the 2020s, but what we see are footless tights. Some companies refer to them as leggings. This seems to a kind of merger of the two garments. Traditionally leggings were not hosiery, but a garment over pants and hosiery. We are not sure what has driven the change from footed to footless tights. We note girls also wearing the footless tights. And somehow the change seems to have made the tights more acceptable to boys. Boys in the21st century more commonly wire long pants then in th 20th century. This meant that tights were not as needed for warmth. This was a little different for Russia where it gets so cold. Boys commonly wore tights home, in part because their apartments were not as well heated as homes in the West. As far as we know this is still footed tights. We have not seen a lot of boys wearing them yet, but we do see them being offered in stores. We also see European boys wearing them for soccer because soccer is played all year round there. We are not sure, however, if the boys are wearing footed or footless versions. And of course tights are standard winter wear for Russian boys.
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