Fashion guru reveals bizarre hack to make your tights last longer

The hack to making your wintertime tights past longer is by putting them connected ice.

TikTok idiosyncratic and creator Rachel, who station nether @rachelinarealway, shared the instrumentality with her followers - telling them to enactment their tights successful the freezer.

Rachel, who said she was a ballet dancer for 12 years, has worn her just stock of tights and knows however to sphere them.

'I cognize a happening oregon 2 astir making those sheer achromatic tights past longer, and it is not to bargain a $30 brace of sheer tights,' she shared.

Labeling costly tights a 'scam,' Rachel said the champion mode to support them looking caller is to store them successful an improbable spot - the freezer.

She past pulled retired a marque caller brace of tights - inactive successful the packet - from among her frozen foods, which she said had been successful determination for astir an hour.

'Is this going to marque your tights past forever? No,' she admitted. 'But they volition past 5 oregon six wears alternatively of tearing arsenic you enactment them on.'

While Rachel swears by the technique, immoderate users were skeptical and disagreed successful the comments, saying they person purchased 'tear-free' tights from brands similar Sheertex and Noosh, which person stood the trial of time.

'Unfortunately, the Sheertex tights are 100 per cent worthy it,' 1 idiosyncratic wrote.

'Unfortunately, I bought $30 tights past twelvemonth and they are really the champion happening successful the world. I person to clasp myself backmost from buying much due to the fact that adjacent aft play usage they are inactive going strong,' chimed successful another.

But others agreed with Rachel.

'I bash this and it truly works! I've had tights for five-plus years I've done this with,' 1 idiosyncratic enthused.

The hack is hardly new, with the instrumentality doing the rounds connected societal media earlier successful the year.

According to Philly Mag, the acold temperatures of the freezer support the idiosyncratic fibers of the tights firm, which prevents runs from starting. 

They recommended moving them nether h2o until they're damp, enactment them successful a integrative container and frost overnight to marque them arsenic durable arsenic possible.

In the morning, instrumentality them out, and fto them defrost and adust astatine country temperature. It's a one-and-done woody - bash it erstwhile and you're bully to go.

In 2015, Good Housekeeping tested the theory, discovering that determination was small quality betwixt tights that were frozen earlier being worn and those that were enactment connected caller retired of the package.

'There was nary important quality successful our cloth spot results betwixt the 2 tights,'  she said astatine the clip of the test.

She added the durability of a fibre could beryllium affected by somesthesia and humidity.

There are respective techniques online that assertion to assistance tights spell the other mile portion getting a workout implicit winter.

TikTok idiosyncratic @Ashley.Paiige precocious shared her 'wet manus method,' saying to retired tights connected with bedewed hands to debar ladders.

'When your palms are wet, they somewhat instrumentality to the nylons successful your tights, which is what allows you to propulsion them up effortlessly. Not lone volition it halt disfigured ladders – it besides means you won't interruption a nail tugging your tights up. You're welcome!' she enthused.

The different communal method words arsenic a strengthening and repairing technique, by utilizing hairsbreadth spray.

TikTok idiosyncratic @SydneyGBrown says ballerinas usage hairsbreadth spray to support their tights portion dancing, and spray it onto ladders to halt them getting bigger.