Pantyhose & Tights

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Our pantyhose music video of the day was conceived by designer and illustrator TU SAIS QUI and director Elsa Blayau for the French band Jupiter and their nu disco revival song “Saké”.

This is quite a playful silly video which starts with instructions for dipping your sake cup into your beer glass and, after gulping it down, hitting the dance floor to watch a spectacular over the top dance competition between Red & Blue Team which are dressed head to toe in those particular colours. The graphical interface is a really fun analogy to 2d arcade fighting games of the past and features power bars, scores and lives remaining for both teams while they battle each other with wicked dance moves.

Style wise we can see Amelie, the band’s singer, featuring lovely 80s dance floor inspired make-up and wearing a shiny golden sequin dress with black star pattern print, black pantyhose and heels covered in sparkling dust which shines in multicoloured reflections in an effect similar to a disco ball.

The girls on the dancing teams sport blue and red spandex leggings and tights whose colours are matched by old school sport jackets and boots/heels. Later on you can also see a girl wearing leopard print tights and a simple cut pink dress, at this point the stage gets invaded by an army of maddened dancers shaking their bodies like they’re having epileptic seizures and the video finishes in an apotheotic frenzy of foolish dance moves.

Besides the music video, the music itself is really awesome, if you still haven’t checked them out you should give their album “Juicy Lucy” a go on their website.

Team-colour dressing like the Red vs Blue rivalry here, built entirely around a single saturated colour worn head to toe including the tights, is a surprisingly practical styling trick outside of a music video too: it reads as a deliberate, coordinated look rather than a random assortment of coloured pieces, which is harder to pull off with a mix of colours fighting each other. Matching spandex leggings or opaque tights to a jacket in the exact same shade, the way the dance teams do here, is the simplest version of that trick to actually recreate.

The leopard print tights that show up later in the video are a nice contrast to the team-colour blocks around them, a reminder that a single patterned pair can do the same “instant coordinated look” job as a matched colour block, just built around a print instead of a flat shade.

It’s also worth noting how much the choreography leans on synchronised colour rather than synchronised movement alone to read clearly on screen: when an entire team is dressed in the same saturated shade including the tights, viewers can track which side is “winning” at a glance even during fast, chaotic dance sequences, which is exactly the kind of visual clarity team-colour dressing is useful for outside of a music video too, whether that’s a themed party, a sports event, or just wanting an outfit to photograph as a clearly coordinated look in a group photo.

The 80s arcade fighting game framing is a nice touch as well, and it’s very much in keeping with nu disco’s whole aesthetic of borrowing unapologetically from decades past rather than trying to sound futuristic, the same spirit that shows up in the deliberately retro, saturated colour choices running through the whole video.