French Girls’ Easiest Street Style Trend Is Matching Your Tights to Your Shoes

street style stars matching their tights to their shoes in paris for fashion week

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published 12 March 2025

As Fashion Month draws to a close with the shows in Paris this week, I set my sights on the stylish French girls and their chic ensembles. In my sleuthing, attendees picked up a street style trend perfect for incorporating into my end-of-winter outfits: the ingenious hack of styling my tights with matching colored shoes.

The easy-to-master look is so great because it relies on a piece I already have in my closet—I've been wearing tights as a much-needed extra layer this winter, and they're great for transitional spring dressing. But you don't need to rely exclusively on your usual black stockings to get it right. Colors like burgundy, cherry red, dark brown, and white have become stylish options when teamed with ballet flats, heels, or trendy sneakers in a coordinating hue.

Keep scrolling to get some much-needed end-of-season outfit inspiration straight from the streets of Paris. Don’t be surprised if you see the look crop up on your Instagram feed.

Cherry Red

PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 05: A guest wears red jacket gloves, skirt, tights outside Stella McCartney during the Womenswear Fall/Winter 2025/2026 as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 05, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Christian Vierig/Getty Images) — All-red outfits are perfect for creating statement-making outfits.

The next iteration of the red spring color trend comes in the form of bold, matchy-matchy shoes and tights. Picking a sheer pair lets you tap into the look with less punch.

Stems Avery Microfiber Tights

Alohas Lindy Slingback Pumps (Were $150)

Easy All-Black

Monochromatic black looks are the key to an easy everyday ensemble.

Teaming your black tights with black heels might not seem new, but it's a styling hack that you can fall back on when you're in a pinch. The combination also creates the look of longer legs, which I rely on as someone who stands at five-foot-two on a good day.

Wolford Neon 40 Pantyhose

Nordstrom Liv Pointed Toe D'orsay Pumps

Gray Days

Gray sneakers add edge to otherwise cutesy outfits, especially when worn with gray tights.

While many of the looks on this list are heels and tights, show attendees at Paris Fashion Week made the case for matching your tights to your chunky sneakers. It's an easy way to tap into the corporate-core look that's also taking over the fashion set.

Lechery® Shiny 20 Denier Sheer Tights

Adidas Handball Spezial Shoes

White-On-White

woman wearing white floral tights paris fashion week FW25 — Lacy white stockings add sweetness to pointy-toed shoes in the same hue.

Play with texture while keeping your color palette monochromatic by swapping smooth tights for a lacy pair. Styling them with an edgier shoe (like a pointed-toe pump) tones down the sweetness.

Reformation Swedish Stockings Rosa Lace Tights

Zara Patent Finish Slingback Heels

Fine Red Wine

Cherry red takes a darker turn in the form of burgundy tights (and shoes).

Red is trending in every shade right now, so take its sophisticated cousin, burgundy tights, for a spin. Styling the hue with gray tones amps up your in-office wardrobe, too.

Calzedonia Totally Invisible 30 Denier Tights

Mango Kitten-Heel Pointed-Toe Shoes (Were $70)

That's That 'Oui' Espresso

PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 10: A guest wears black sunglasses, mixed metal rings, white high neck sheer mesh shirt, light brown black trench coat, dark brown suede bag, mixed metal rings, mixed metal bracelets, shiny belted leather mini skirt, black sheer mesh tights, shiny dark brown ballerina flats Maison Margiela Tabi leather shoes, outside Sacai, during the Paris Fashion week Women's Fall/Winter 2025-2026 on March 10, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Edward Berthelot/Getty Images) — Brown tights offer a subtle change from an all-black look.

Test out a dark brown shade if you're sick of wearing all black. It's the perfect transitional hue to style as we head into spring.

Sheertex Classic Sheer Rip-Resist Tights (Were $49)

Margaux The Demi Flats

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Julia Marzovilla is the Fashion E-Commerce Editor at Marie Claire, where she reviews the latest launches from fashion and beauty brands, finds the best on-sale items around the internet, and interviews experts to find the best products in any category to share with her readers. She also creates shopping guides that span every vertical on the site as an expert in everything from the best laptop bags to the best laser hair removal devices.

In her near decade of experience, Julia has both written for several top outlets in the E-Commerce space and worked at major fashion labels. Prior to joining the Marie Claire team, she contributed similar shopping stories to sites such as Bustle, InStyle, The Zoe Report, Who What Wear, and worked as the Trending Fashion and News Writer STYLECASTER. You can find her across the internet at @JuliaMarzovilla. In real life, you can find her creating shopping guides for her friends, cooking or baking in her too-small kitchen, or buying tickets for the next time Harry Styles is in town.

Julia has a Bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in Journalism from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. She lives in New York City, her hometown.