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01One cut, five pack sizes

DRSKIN Compression Pants and Tights

Every full-length pair in the range: the single, the two-pack, the three-pack, the four-pack, the five-pack and the camo cut, all in the same 92 per cent polyester and 8 per cent spandex knit from S to 3XL.

  • 6 styles
  • 12 colourways
  • S to 3XL size run
  • $8.98 to $49.99

Colourways on this page: Black, Black and white, Camo grey, Red, Camo red and black, Camo black, Camo red, Navy, and 4 more.

A full-length pair is the piece this brand is measured by, and the pool of ratings behind it is larger than everything else on the site put together. The cut is one cut: a four-panel leg with the seams turned off the inner thigh, a wide elastic waistband, and an ankle cuff that stays put under a sock. What separates the cards on this page is arithmetic rather than tailoring. A single pair costs less than nine dollars at the bottom of the range; the five-pack works out cheaper per pair than any of them and arrives as five of the same thing.

The knit is 92 per cent polyester with 8 per cent spandex, and the spandex is why the label has to name it: the textile labelling rule lets a maker fold anything under five per cent into "other fiber", but a fibre with a job of its own gets named, and stretch is the example the rule itself gives. Eight per cent is what lets the leg go back to its shape after it has been pulled over a heel a hundred times. Sizes run S to 3XL across every card here. A pair is cut to sit closer than a legging worn on its own, so if your tape lands between two letters, take the larger, and buy one pair before you buy five of it.

Every colourway here is priced on its own; the DRSKIN drawer keeps the figures current and the till is what decides.

02About these pieces

Questions about DRSKIN Compression Pants and Tights

One cut, five pack sizes

Are DRSKIN compression pants meant to feel this tight on you?

Yes, within reason. The cut is deliberately smaller than the body it goes on, which is what makes it a compression pant rather than a legging, and the first minute of wearing a new pair is the tightest it will ever feel. What is not normal is a waistband that folds over when you sit or a knee that goes numb standing still: that is a size too small, and the answer is the next letter up rather than a stretched-out pair.

Which DRSKIN pack size actually saves you money?

All of them beat the single on price per pair, and the gap widens with the count: the five-pack is the cheapest pair in the range and the three-pack is the one most people settle on. The catch is colour. A pack arrives in the colours named on its card, so a three-pack of black, grey and navy is one of each, and if you only ever wear black, the black-only packs are the ones to look for.

Can you wear DRSKIN tights on their own, without shorts over them?

People do, and the knit is opaque enough for it at every size in the run. Whether you want to is a different question and the honest answer is that most of this range is bought as a layer under a kit. If the pair is going to be the outer layer, check it in daylight before the session: any compression knit thins where it stretches most, which on a full-length tight is the back of the thigh.

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Every DRSKIN size, every pack

Every size, colourway and pack in the DRSKIN collection sits behind this button, with the price from our last update against each one.