White Tights: A Do Or A Don't?

Those Gossip Girls sure love their white tights--in last night's episode, Blair even used hers as an instrument of seduction in her exhausting attempt to woo Chuck Bass. They were also on the runways for fall at Narciso Rodriguez and for spring at Balenciaga, making it pretty clear that they're no longer the sole domain of school nurses and ballet school students. But will you wear them?

For Blair Waldorf and Jenny Humphrey, white tights are a classic part of their prep aesthetic. The secret to their style is wearing them with a sense of purpose I'd almost call cartoonish--the entire look is so over-the-top-schoolgirl-WASP-primaries-and-plaids that there's no mistaking them for girls who are just out of touch. It's almost as if they're saying, "I wore these white tights on purpose. They're trendy. Okay?"