Winter is here and the key ingredient to any woman’s seasonal wardrobe update is simple: take any sexy skirt, or fabulous frock and add one pair of sassy black tights!

The only challenge for me is I am 6 foot tall and 95 kilos. According to that exclusive little graph on the back of regular stockings, I am not included in their sizings. Where does a gorgeous body-positive size 16 woman like me find a pair of stockings that do my legs justice?

Where do I find a stocking that can commit to love me for who I am and stretch the distance without the toe snagging, the low hanging gusset, and the waist band roll down?

In the past, to get a pair of stockings to stay the distance I have had to innovate. I have done my fair share of ‘double stacking’. That was when I wore underwear underneath and over the top of my stockings – a kind of Wonder Woman approach to gusset creep. But now, my horizons have broadened and thanks to Sonsee who have created beautiful Italian made tights from sizes 14 to 28, I can finally enjoy sensually fitted tights that hug my incredible body rather than harass it.

Sonsee's Opaque 100 Denier Full Tights; Opaque 60 Denier Full Tights; and 20 Denier Full Tights. Image: Supplied.

So, on my way to Sonsee Salvation, I spoke to some of my curvy sisters about the stocking challenge! These generous-hearted women really helped me find my way to stocking positivity:

Meet one of my new besties, Curvy Insta Queen Jo from @icurvy. She LOVES Sonsee too.

Jo…tell me, what is so great about the Sonsee tights?

The quality. I’m not a ‘delicate woman’ and these tights endure my tough treatment. I’m the kinda person who has a ladder in stocking by lunchtime despite being careful... yet in Sonsee I can confidently run between meetings or crawl on the floor with my daughter. I have Sonsee tights that are over four years old; ones that I wore throughout my whole pregnancy (stretching to completely cover my nine-month bump with ease) and they they snapped right back into shape. You just don’t get quality like that anywhere else.

Oh, and the fit. So stretchy and comfortable, and they don’t roll down.

No roll down...that'ssomething.Did you find it as hard to find great plus sized tights as I have?

So hard to find! When I was a size 24, it was near impossible to find plus size tights in Australia that didn’t make my thighs feel like they were squeezed into sausage casings. Crotch-creep is real, and really uncomfortable - even for tights that were marketed as ‘plus size’ often spent all their ‘stretch power’ on my legs and it left them waaay too short in the crotch; and I’m not even that tall!

I find the sizing thing really unrepresentative of who I am. It doesn’t make me feel celebrated. How do you feel about the sizings?

My pet hate is brands that cater to the plus size market, but only portray one type of plus size gal (hint - she usually fits their smallest size and is an hourglass). Sonsee is not like that at all. From their marketing campaigns to their products shots on their website, they represent all different beautiful body types. Even down to their sizing - they don’t reduce you to a number - I wear a size ‘beautiful’. It’s subtle messages like these that can really make a difference, and make Sonsee different.