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northern ocean princess and muppo (kantai collection and 1 more) drawn by sazanami_konami

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    I Hear It's Tights Day

    The difference between tights and pantyhose is their denier (a unit of linear density, fineness or thread/fiber thickness): leggings under 30 D are pantyhose, and those at 30+ D are tights.

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    Moonspeaker
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    Claverhouse said:

    Eh, no. Stockings are two garments, one for each leg, what are called thigh-highs here; tights are one garment, two legs joined by a part completely enclosing the groin.

    Groin: there's a funny word.

    I think we're dealing with some loan word confusion; the artist may have meant to use パンスト rather than ストッキング. Regardless, ストッキング is what he used, so thus it is translated. :-)

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