Anti-pervert? hairy stockings apparently popular in China
An image of a woman in "hairy leg stockings" has gone viral on Sina Weibo (a popular microblogging platform in China, roughly equivalent to Twitter) with the caption "Super sexy, summertime anti-pervert full-leg-of-hair stockings, essential for all young girls going out [emoticon of clapping dinosaur with hearts coming out of its head]." It's prompted a lot of websites to claim that China has invented "anti-pervert stockings." Yes, China was sitting in her workshop, wearing one of those headbands with a flashlight attached to it, sewing the hirsute prototype for months. That's how the picture got on the Internet.
In actual fact, they are J Crew's latest lace tights range - which, from a distance, appear to replicate the look of very hairy, unshaven legs.
The tights are in fact in a lacy fawn pattern.
But the shapes and texture of the pattern make the overall effect from a distance something quite different from what, presumably, J Crew intended.
The tights are certainly attracting plenty of attention on the internet - but sadly for all the wrong reasons.
Blogs lambasted them as J Crew's 'hilarious' new 'hairy tights'.
The tights are described on the store's website as 'an essential ingredient in the season's textural mash-up'.
They are retailing for $22.50.