Weekly Vibe #119

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

Welcome to Weekly Vibe #119! How time flies and we are already in March!! Unfortuately I had to spend the first day of March working on a Sunday... well I believe some of our friends here also work on a Sunday as well... so why am I complaining? Oh wells.. :X 

Well anyways something really interesting happened, well I always made it a habit to wear my tights for work on Sunday.. well with shorts of course! I didn't have to do much on a Sunday as all I needed to do was watch the little shop from 10am to 6pm. But anyways! One of the neighbours next to my little shop noticed something, she stared at my legs and she said.. well in mandarin "Ohh! Men's pantyhose?" I was really laughing it out in my heart because I always wore them and you finally noticed them!! Haha! and of course I nodded. I was kinda intrigued that she didn't notice them all the past 2 years... incredible! 

I happened to be wearing the amazing black Cette Dublin Tights which PantyhoseHQ kindly sent to me a while back ago I have also written a review on them as well. If you are looking to buy them, UK Tights are fully stocked with all sizes and colours.

I also hope you guys already made good use of the UK Tights' 10% off code!! Because it already expired as of the 28th of February!! :( Well if you haven't it isn't so bad as UK Tights is having a special Mothers' Day free gift with any orders over a certain amount!

The catch is it ends on the midnight(UK time) 3rd of March! So start shopping! 

Wolford fans anyone here? I know I'm one! Tightsplease is having a Flash sale on their Wolford collection with up to 30% off! 

Be quick as I really have no idea when it ends.. probably just a week! Get cracking!

Well that's all I have for you! Time for me to get to the gym soon!

Thanks for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh

Blog Hop!

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

A few weeks back a good blogger friend of me Hosiery For Men threw the Blog Hop baton to me, you can also read his blog hop as nominated by Fashion Writer Linda Hobden 

So here we go!

1. What am I working on?

Like all if not most fashion bloggers, we strive to get as many attention and readership as possible, and I personally believe that fashion bloggers are the ones who impact fashion as a whole on the streets, because people are likely to be more convinced through words. Ultimately blogs are also media outlets and that I strive to bring to the public that men's legwear fashion are the "in" thing! I currently also am working on some backlogs of product reviews mostly from Activskin. 

2. How does my work differ from others?

Most male hosiery blogs focus more on hosiery product reviews in detail but what Legwear Fashion For Men does here is building up on the reviews by providing a fashion edge to things and the flow goes like this... "now that I know how well it fits, now how should I go on about wearing them out." Other than product reviews, Legwear Fashion For Men does weekly outfit posts(Outfit of the Week) for outfit inspirations and weekly updates(Weekly Vibe) for weekly updates on hosiery offers and happenings to my personal life to inspire other men to wear their legwear confidently. 


3. Why do I write what I do?

I always believe that there is more to it than just suits, jeans, pants to men's fashion, sure who doesn't like a woman with well turned legs in hosiery but like a quote from Legwear4men "Because Men Have Legs Too!" and indeed we do need warmth and support for legs, we work just as hard too! Most men would have worn hosiery but wear them under their jeans and pants, and gosh do you know how warm and uncomfortable it can be? Here we encourage our male readers to wear them with shorts and pair up them with shoes and clothing and accessories

4.How does my writing process work?

When I go hunting for outfit ideas, I will consider a few factors: 

1)Will I try something like that? Well if I wouldn't, why would my readers do it?
2)Would the outfit be too visually striking? 
3)Certain outfits only suits a different kind of audience. 
4)Everyone has a different level of boldness openly wearing tights with shorts.

As for Weekly Vibes, I will share noteworthy life events and also good hosiery products deals over the internet. Twitter is also a platform I use to promote this fashion movement, together hand-in-hand with other male hosiery blogs, we break new grounds for Men's legwear fashion!

I would like to thank Hosiery For Men for nominating to do this blog hop and also the support I get from various hosiery retailers and businesses like Activskin, UK Tights, Tightsplease, PantyhoseHQ and Legwear International that have supported this blog over the 2 years! Not to forget the fellow bloggers and most importantly the readers from all over the world!

Now I am passing the baton to Rob Speedking for this bloghop! Looking forward to read his post!

Thanks for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh

Special Focus: Cette Dublin Plus Size Opaque Tights

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

Today we will be taking an in depth look into the Cette Dublin Plus Size Opaque Tights.

PantyhoseHQ has kindly sent me a pair of these for review, and I was really looking forward to trying these as they have very favourable reviews and recommendations for a men's first pair of tights to try on and they rightfully deserve so and you shall find out why in this review!

First look

At first look, these are really very luxurious feeling tights, taking them off from the packaging gives you the feeling that they are truly a luxury item! These were very nicely packaged. 60 denier with sheer to waist brief, sheer toes with and a cotton gusset.

Putting them on

PantyhoseHQ sent me an XL size for this, the length of the legs had ample space and boy sliding them up... it felt really nice as they just glided up to my legs and I noticed that it had a lot of stretch!

Feel and Look

These felt really really smooth and soft and also you could feel its durability, though it is mentioned to be matte, these actually give out quite a lot of shine(which you can see in the photo above) as compared to other matte tights I got. As your knees bend you could start seeing skin showing, about some 40% opacity. It's opacity is pretty accurate to what you see in the packaging picture, it's more of a semi opaque but leaning more to an opaque appearance. 

Here is a style I came up with the Cette Dublin Plus Size Opaque Tights

T-Shirt: PUMA   Shorts: HUSH PUPPIES  Shoes: TOPMAN  Eyewear: H&M  Legwear: CETTE   Model & Photographer:  A. LUCIUS. KUNSTWERKE FABRIK

The following properties such as Comfort, Compression, Durability, Opacity, Shine & Price will be rated by numbers.

Comfort: 4 out of 5 points

Compression: 0 out of 5 points

Durability: 4 out of 5 points

Opacity: 3.5 out of 5 points

Shine: 3.5 out of 5 points

Price: 3 out of 5 points

Price US$19.02

Material Content: 94% Nylon, 6% Lycra & 1% Cotton

Sizes: 

•          XL = 5'1" - 5'9" Height 44-48in hips
•          2XL = 5'1" - 5'9" Height 48-53in hips
•          3XL = 5'3" - 5'9" Height 53-59 hips
•          4XL = 5'3" - 5'9" Height 58 - 63 hips

Colours: Black, Ristretto & Chartreux

Pros: These are very comfortable, won't make you heat up too much as it's 60 denier, very smooth and glides up to your leg, very stretchy, decent price paying for tights of this quality and very good for men who want to try tights for the first time.

Cons: They are probably not the cheapest tights you will find around but come on hey these are good quality tights! If you're looking for something totally opaque these wouldn't work out for you.

To buy them go to this link! (As of now 23rd of October 2013 size 4XL is currently out of stock)

Conclusion:

These are really great tights, this is one of those that you know you should have in your wardrobe if you are a guy who wear tights and if you are wanting to try tights on, these are the ones that you should really really go for!

Thanks for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh

Happy 1st Birthday Legwear Fashion For Men!!

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

Wow!! Can you believe it? Today's Legwear Fashion For Men's First Year Anniversary!!! It isn't just for me the blogger but for every reader of this blog to celebrate!!! And for the interesting fact this blog is still very much alive and good after a year! Thank God for all of you who read and support this blog everyday! You are all that make this blog alive! 

We have reached over 48,000 views over the span of 1 year! AMAZING!!! We average about 100 views a day from all over the world, reaching out mostly to the Americas, Europe & Singapore! And we have had sponsors from Legwear International, PantyhoseHQ, and G.Lieberman & Sons, Ltd we also made friends with various other related bloggers such as Hosiery For Men, Hosiery Advocate, Tights For Men, Fantasy Stockings & so many more to name! One of our biggest supporters portal Legwear as Unisex Fashion or LAUF that really brought in a lot of traffic to the blog! 

So what's going to be new for the blog? 

We will be starting something new called Outfit Of The Week or "OOTW", this will feature both male or female styles for the week and it every week an outfit will be featured ! They will feature photos found from all over the world wide web worn by real people! 

More features will be implemented in the future!

And for this special 1st Year Anniversary, G. Lieberman & Sons, Ltd or Activskin as your know it has graciously given all of you readers out there a special Legwear Fashion For Men 1st Year Anniversary discounts! All you need to do is use this code LFFM2013 when you checkout your shopping cart this code is valid for all Activskin products, usable 3 times till the 30th of September 2013! To start saving and shop click here! 

As you all know that we have started a special retweet competition on Twitter and the 2 winners that walk away with 1 pair of A866 full support tights are.. @VanMan1973 & @Hasanaraba! Congratulations!

Please remember to DM to @LegwearFash4Men your height, waist circumference, inseam, name, & address. Please DM as soon as possible! 

Once again a big thank you for all of you that support us! And that's all I have for you today!

Thanks for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh

Weekly Vibe #37

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

Welcome to the 37th edition of Weekly Vibe! I hope you guys had a great week! Although I was down with a cold but it didn't prevent me from celebrating my good friend's wedding on Saturday! I was glad to be part of it and did something extra by helping him photograph some really special moments of that special day, here are some photos!

Earlier this week I watched Despicable Me 2!! It was adorably great! I really love Agnes as she is so adorable!!! Coolest part was that I watched it with a co-worker whom I'm starting to like a lot.. Hahaha!

Today I helped cover the co-worker whom I'm starting to like at work as she was down with fever after she had a fall.. poor girl. Worked about 3/4 of a workday, my boss was nice to give me time back for work today and I'm gonna be using that time for writing up hosiery reviews!!! I know right...

StockingsHQ is giving a 25% all Nylonica products this week so don't miss out!

UK Tights has got new patterns released from Pierre Mantoux Fashion and Le Bourget Fashion. I'm looking forward to review Pierre Mantoux's legwear the next time.. after clearing my backlog of reviews with Legwear International and PantyhoseHQ.

That's all for this week! 

Thanks for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh

Weekly Vibe #32

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

Welcome to the 32nd edition of Weekly Vibe!! Firstly I wanna wish the Fathers Happy Fathers' Day! I just made a realisation that the ActivSkin A866 tights are really awesome as if you guys might know, I wore the A866 for the National Vertical Marathon last Sunday and I just totally noticed that I didn't have leg cramps at all! I mean wow.. I climbed 40 stories! The A866 are really awesome for sports, you can read my review on the A866 here.

Earlier today I was wearing my Nylonica Linea 70 opaque tights which PantyhoseHQ sent for reviewing purposes(I usually wear them for a day out before writing a review) and I had a friend who randomly commented on my bottoms and said "Cool pants!" well since I was like on my way out already and I said "Thanks mate!" Before I could like process myself fast enough telling him "dude, they aren't just pants but shorts and tights!" Hahaha!

I would really want to hear from you people.. Like seriously what do you want to see in this blog?

Please comment! :)

That's all I have for you this week and have a great Father's Day!

Thanks for reading!

Andreas Lucius Loh 

Weekly Vibe #30

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

Welcome to the 30th edition of Weekly Vibe! My apologies that I couldn't post this up yesterday as I was working extra on a Sunday for a baby related exhibition throughout the weekends. I also took the opportunity to test out the legwear that I was sent by Legwear International.

UK tights are having a discount on their hold ups just use this passcode at checkout HOLDUPS10, you can check it their hold ups here 

So far I'm having an adventure wearing reviewing the hosiery products Legwear International sent me. I'm absolutely looking forward to my off day on Wednesday so I could do the photo shoot looks for the products PantyhoseHQ sent. 

That's all for today!

Thanks for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh

Special Arrival + Just Arrived: PantyhoseHQ samples and Wolford Hosiery

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

PantyhoseHQ has kindly sent me samples to review and they include the Cette Dublin Satin 60 denier size plus collection and the Nylonica Linea Classic Opaque 70.

Here are photos of the products from PantyhoseHQ:

Cette Dublin Satin 60 den Tights

Nylonica Linea Classic Opaque 70 Tights

Today I also finally received a pair of Wolford Velvet De Luxe 66 which I have ordered from Tightsplease.

It took a little longer because Tightsplease was waiting for the XL stocks to come hence I had to wait a little longer.

Here is a photo of the product from Tightsplease:

Wolford Velvet De Luxe 66

I am so looking forward to reviewing these tights soon! However I am going to be very busy with work this week and all these have to wait till next week!

Thanks for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh

Weekly Vibe #28

Hi Creative and Fashionable people!

Welcome to the 28th edition of Weekly Vibe! It's been a great week for Legwear Fashion For Men! Ever since the inception of our Twitter account, many good contacts have been made, namely with StockingsHQ/PantyhoseHQ, LegwearInternational & NylonWarehouse and of which PantyhoseHQ and LegwearInternational will be sending us hosiery samples for Legwear Fashion For Men to do reviews on! Wow! And also we will be doing an interview with NylonWarehouse! It is great that both fashion bloggers and retailers can collaborate and in turn help us fashion bloggers generate more traffic and for retailers to generate more business! 

Personally if it wasn't for creating @LegwearFash4Men twitter account, I probably wouldn't have had known so many other hosiery retailers, sites, other fashion bloggers and individuals who are into legwear.

One thing that was really good about Twitter for me was that I could post things that I would probably not post up in the blog as those posts would just be just too short to be posted up as a blog post. So if you haven't followed Legwear Fashion For Men's Twitter, please do follow @LegwearFash4Men for the latest updates on hosiery tips and hot sales!

Thanks for reading!
Andreas Lucius Loh