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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Emma Childs

Fashion Girls Are Using Sheer Knee-High Socks to Level Up Their Looks

A future graphic of three images of Chloe King wearing black sheer knee-high socks and street style imagery of women at Fashion Week wearing sheer knee-high socks.

So, you bought a new mini skirt and want to take it out for a spin. But it's too leggy for a fall outfit on an unsuspecting Tuesday. A pair of tights would be the more obvious addition to your mini-skirt outfit. But street-style maven Chloe King will tell you to try sheer knee-high socks (or stockings, as my nana called them) instead.

King, a luxury retail professional you'll spot in every best Fashion Week street style round-up across the internet, has become the unofficial face (or rather, legs) of the burgeoning knee socks trend. The fashion darling has styled sheer hosiery with mini shorts and jackets worn as dressers. Though she's experimented with "more masculine brogue loafers, a super high heel is more fun," King writes me over email.

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