Let's beat the cold with (layers of) statement tights

I am making the bet that all the elaborate hosiery trends are really going to take off next Spring.

Not before, and especially not during the last mile before Christmas.

Knee-high socks might be spared because they are easy to accommodate with any pair of thick leggings, or even jeans.

They are a great way of adding a smudge of colour to a dark winter outfit - and colour lifts the mood.

Fancy print and lace tights however, are in danger of becoming winter-extinct.

Mostly, because they are too thin to protect against the cold.

And unless you work in an Caribbean-beach-like warm office and you have a taxi to shelter you from the frost and wind while traveling from point A to point B, they are often not worth a month with the sniffles.

The way out is to wear them over a pair (or two) of skin coloured tight. Because let's admit it, they look fantastic.

Statement tights however might be the solution

A lot of brands have opaque statement tights: they are thicker which rhymes with warmer.

Opaque also means it is easy to wear another pair underneath, without them having to be paper-thin and skin coloured.

And of course there are all the patent, PVC, shiny or leather imitation leggings.

Even ice-age temperatures cannot stop a girl to show off some leg from underneath woolen trenches.

Plus-size: Less fashionable

If you are a size 20 and about to wear over the knee socks with shorts, a tartan cinched jacket or any of the season's trends for that matter, think again. The result will probably be laughable. Because these clothes have not been designed for you.

All current fashions are made for slim bodies.

A lot of designers agree to say that most clothes hang better on thinner people. It's all about flowy materials and suggestive draping. It's harder to work with curvy shapes than lean, straight ones.

The only way to have fat look fab would be to change the design process of clothes.

Figures are more important than we think: it might be more beneficial to have alternative fashion brands focusing on bigger body shapes.

But it also would mean the emergence of a "fat" fashion, opposed to mainstream fashion. No one is quite sure if such a thing would work, and how much outrage in the chubby ranks it would cause.

I believe everyone has the right to have great clothes, but the best way is probably to go to the gym and reach down to a size 14 or under.

Body shape ideals change constantly (think of chubby Marylin Monroe and Twiggy) and thin isn't necessarily size zero and outrageous. If thin is in, why not flow with it.

All depends if you would rather buy crisps or clothes.