Besides for the fact that all the cool kids are doing it? Here's why:

• They're slimming:  Black = slim, and tights are no exception. Black tights automatically make your legs look slimmer.
• They elongate your legs: Especially when paired with black shoes, they make your legs look like they just keep going, making you look taller. Going totally monochromatic, while possibly slightly morbid-looking when that color is black, heightens the effect.

Time to bring black tights out from their exile and place them back on the fashion pedestal right next to their bolder, patterned counterparts. Check out a few of your best options here!

After years of watching women adapt men's fashions to suit their own, men have finally decided to fight back. Women have taken pants, ties and oxfords from men... now men have taken tights from women and superheroes. Meggings, as the male leggings are commonly referred to, first showed up on overseas catwalks in 2007 but have since gained rapid popularity. At least when women make the mistake of thinking leggings are pants, they wear longer tops over them. The trend for men seems to be to wear them in a manner akin to ultra tight jeans.

 

Something tells me you wouldn't catch any of these men wearing a baseball cap, sitting at a football game and chugging beer....