I still have to go back and read all the responses on this, but after reading the op, I vote cotton tights or yay! Silk ones if they can be found! If you work in an office or some where along those lines, leg coverings are required. When I was growing up, girls were required to wear dresses. And I do remember the mini skirts in the middle of winter!! Then they started letting us wear pants on Fridays and eventually you could wear pants all the time by the time I was in high school. My first day of my freshman year, I got to wear pants to school, hardly any one did. Oh! and then the big bells came out, and I would wear big bells with toe sandals and toe socks!! Ya hoo!!
And then, the big bells were big enough to hide my feet under, so I went to school barefoot!!