BS ISO 5971:2017

This standard BS ISO 5971:2017 Size designation of clothes. Tights is classified in these ICS categories:

• 61.020 Clothes

This document establishes a system for designating the sizes of tights.

The system is based on three criteria:

• identification of dimensions;

• description of the methods of determining size designations from survey data; and

• indication of size designations for garment labelling.

Examples of size designations are given in Annex B.

NOTE Tights are sometimes called by other names, e.g. “pantyhose”.