Comments on The Nylon Gene: Charnos Launching a Men's Legwear Line?

Helps with those pasty white British legs.

2010-02-24T14:43:55.764-05:00

Helps with those pasty white British legs.

Point well taken, El Huron. I suspect I may be al...

2010-02-08T20:29:15.688-05:00

Point well taken, El Huron. I suspect I may be allowing my affinity to ActivSkin to slightly color my comments. You're right. Any large company that is bold enough to commit significant resources to men's legwear should be commended for that, and their products evaluated on a level playing field with all others.

What is sometimes a bit annoying are the companies that just 'toy with' the idea, yet never actually do anything meaningful because they're ruled by fear. Fear, that is, of some imagined backlash from their female customers if they're seen catering in the slightest to male customers.

We've seen this with No-Nonsense, who briefly put up a men's legwear page on their website, only to take it down again very soon afterwards. Another is Berkshire Hosiery. Most people are unaware that they had--and may still have--a line of men's pantyhose. They launched it some 6 or more years ago, under the brand name, Lexwear. The product website was completely and utterly severed from any connection to Berkshire. It's never updated (check and see if it's still there: www.lexwear.com), and they've done absolutely nothing to try and sell this product concept.

Not THOSE are the type of hosiery companies that we men should not support, in my opinion.

I will support the first brand who will help the a...

2010-02-08T15:12:38.895-05:00

I will support the first brand who will help the acceptance in making real marketing actions like visible ads or tv spot, press... Showing a real action to push this market to mainstream

Dear Steve Re, your comment: "men who wear l...

2010-02-08T12:00:28.423-05:00

Dear Steve

Re, your comment: "men who wear legwear are best off supporting the companies like ActivSkin." Well I have bought ActivSkin opaque tights as well as other tights marketed at men such as DoYeah etc. And to be honest, although some of them are great products, I do find that with careful attention being paid to sizing, tights made for women can fit really well. Charnos, for example, offer great value opaque tights that fit really well and last a long time. I just don't buy the argument advanced by some bloggers that men should only buy tights made for and manufactured for men. If Charnos are interested in and acknowledge that men wear their tights that's good enough for me. If they have men testing them and giving feedback even better.