Crotchless Tights

Why wear crotchless tights?

Other than the obvious sensual reasons, wearing crotchless tights can actually have a few practical functions. First off, if you're wearing shapewear garments, these items can often be difficult, if not impossible, to take off in order to use the ladie's room. Instead of holding it all day, something actually extremely unhealthy, opt for a crotchless option to make tinkle time all that much easier. The same idea can be taken for traveling. Maybe the restroom is small and you can't move around, or there is a different idea of a restroom altogether. An easy workaround for travel on trains, planes, and buses is to wear a crotchless alternative to make things much more simple. Lastly, some women actually prefer crotchless tights because they typically don't come with a gusset (extra room around the crotch area). If you wear panties underneath tights and other hosiery, these gussets can actually create bunching, which then leads to chafing, quite the uncomfortable scenario. A nicer alternative is to opt for a crotchless version and then in combination with underwear, the item is much more enjoyable to wear.

Where do crotchless tights come from?

Before the 1800s there basically wasn't the concept of underwear as we know it today. Believe it or not, underwear that closes is a relatively new invention. Hundreds of years ago, underwear was tight around the waist to make room for the many layers of skirts and petticoats women were expected to wear. It made much more sense to wear them this way because taking a trip to the bathroom meant stripping completely naked or not stripping at all. With these restrictions, it's a no brainer why it made much more sense not to have panties with closed bottoms.
Knickerbockers were introduced in the 1850s, but they were completely unfashionable, impractical and basically unhealthy so they didn't stick around long. As the 1900s rolled around, women were expected to do more "manly" things like riding bikes so a different type of underwear was required. There were options like trapdoors or split leg underwear. After WWI, women made up a bulk of the workforce so the only option was to wear panties more like men did. Then with the introduction of elastic, problems with taking panties on and off became a thing of the past, leading to the panties with all the frills that we are more used to today.