Pantyhose & Tights

If you live in Europe or Russia I’d say there’s a 100% chance you’ve already come across a Calzedonia store. This Italian hosiery brand founded in 1986 and based in Dossobuono di Villafranca di Verona has taken over Europe as far as legwear shopping is concerned with more than 1300 stores located throughout the continent. The Calzedonia group also owns the Intimissimi and Tezenis brands.

The legwear collections launched by Calzedonia every year have certainly become a breath of fresh air in the legwear universe. Featuring beautifully crafted tights, leggings and stockings they release PDF catalogues every season which also work as a sort of lookbook giving good advice to buyers on what to wear with their particular styles of legwear.

Below you can find our preserved collection of their old catalogues.

These old catalogues are still genuinely useful beyond nostalgia. Calzedonia’s seasonal PDFs typically group items by denier and by intended weather, so even years later they’re a decent quick reference for translating a look you like into the right weight of tights, whether that’s a sheer pair for a warm evening or a heavy opaque pair for deep winter. If you’re shopping secondhand rather than buying new, that kind of denier-to-season mapping is exactly the detail that doesn’t always survive into a bare listing title, so it’s worth cross-checking against a catalogue like this before assuming a pair will suit the weather you actually want to wear it in.

It’s also a nice snapshot of how quickly hosiery trends move: flipping through a handful of consecutive seasons side by side shows how fast patterns, colours and even silhouettes cycle in and out within a single mainstream brand, which is part of why secondhand legwear shopping turns up so many styles that never got a proper reissue.

One thing worth calling out for anyone actually flipping through the PDFs, rather than the archive of vintage prints: Calzedonia typically runs two main collection drops a year, a Spring/Summer catalogue that leans into sheer pantyhose and structured shaping products, and an Autumn/Winter one built around heavier opaque tights, textured knits and fleece-lined leggings. If you’re trying to work out roughly when a particular pattern or print was released, matching it to which of the two seasonal catalogues it appears in is a decent first clue even without a printed date.

The sizing tables are also worth reading properly rather than skipping to the picture: Calzedonia, like most Italian hosiery brands, sizes primarily by height and weight range rather than a simple S/M/L, so a pair that looks right on the catalogue model can still be the wrong size if your own height-to-weight ratio falls outside the printed range for that size, something that trips up a lot of first-time buyers used to garment sizing working purely off body measurements.

It’s a genuinely different approach to showing legwear than what you’ll find here on this site: a manufacturer’s catalogue is built to sell an entire seasonal collection through styled, professionally lit studio shots, while every piece on this shop is a single real item, photographed as it actually is, because it’s secondhand and one of a kind rather than a current-season release you could reorder in your size.