Answer (1 of 6): Originally, dancers wore opaque tights. Ballerinas still do. But they found, particularly under the lights then in use, that skin-colored tights didn’t look like skin. They looked pasty and flat. Fishnets, particularly when the dancers were moving, looked more like the texture of
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