Gambettes tights reflect our French lifestyle. Simply put: très chic, but playful like a baguette underneath your arm.
How do we make your tights?
Parisians and the streets of Paris are our inspiration.
Gambettes is changing the game
You won’t feel the difference, but the environment will
We're experimenting with future-proof materials
In April 2021, we launched the first-ever tights made from castor bean. This is the best way to reduce the amount of non-renewable material in our tights, as castor bean is natural and therefore sustainable material that requires little water to grow and is OEKO-TEX certified.
How are Gambettes tights created?
This is them, our tights, before it all begins they are a simple spool of yarn. After a few turns around themselves (4 laps) they will be ready to shine on your beautiful legs.
But let’s go back to our spool : it gets the best care! Stored for 24 hours maximum at 25-26°C, no more, to ensure that the fibre is perfectly ready to be woven.
Knitting our tights
A machine takes an average of 4 minutes to knit simple tights. But because we like to bring creativity, our tights with unique patterns can take up to 10 minutes to knit.
First one leg, then the other: this is how tights are made. The next step is to assemble everything by joining the two legs with a reinforced seam. Careful quality control is carried out at this stage, because our anti-tear team has eyes everywhere.
In black and white
Small anecdote, at first... the tights are white. Then we dye them to change from white to color (usually black, or at least we prefer that). Then the new pantyhose is ironed, folded and packed into our cardboard boxes. Now our pantyhose is ready for you!
Transportation matters too
We wouldn’t be eco-friendly if we didn’t factor in how we get your tights to your postbox. As far as production and transport are concerned, it’s best to stay in Europe. Our tights are made in Italy and slipped into their box in Spain: that’s just 1000 km. Most importantly, your tights don’t fly: no planes, that’d be far too much CO2!