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"Next time your favorite tights go missing, you might check out your guy&amp;#39;s drawer, because if a new report is to be believed, &amp;quot;mantyhose&amp;quot;--yes, hosiery for dudes--is totally a thing right now.\nPinterestFacebookThe look hasn&amp;#39;t exactly gone mainstream yet, but apparently enough men are interested in svelte-ifying and staying warm that demand has increased, and hosiery specialist Emilio Cavallini tells WWD that his recently-launched just for dudes line is doing pretty well. &amp;quot;A growing number of men have been buying tights at emiliocavallini.com since a unisex collection was introduced in June 2009, said Cavallini. Purchases by men account for 2 to 3 percent of the company&amp;#39;s annual production of one million tights,&amp;quot; reports the paper.\nSo just how did &amp;quot;mantyhose&amp;quot; come to be a Cavallini specialty? &amp;quot;When we started our online shop we noticed that a lot of tights sized medium-large were being purchased by men.\u2026So I did a search on the Internet and discovered there is a cult following for mantyhose...we came up with the concept of creating tights that both men and women could wear.&amp;quot; Basic black is their best seller, and he says most men wear them under pants for warmth, or with shorts to make a fashion statement. And of course, there are some wild patterns available for the more adventurous (check out the his-and-hers pairs from his site above).\nWe&amp;#39;ve already seen Spanx for dudes...and a real-life &amp;quot;bro&amp;quot;...and undershirts that second as shapewear...so are mantyhose just the next logical step? Or is this just a road you don&amp;#39;t think men should go down? Would your guy ever wear a pair of tights? Don&amp;#39;t you just love the name &amp;quot;mantyhose&amp;quot;? Discuss!\nPhoto: Emilio Cavallini"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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