Gambettes Box, the Paris tights subscription: how it works, what it costs and where it ships

A sheer black tartan pair rising from a black loafer to the hem of a grey tweed coat. It is one of the photos Gambettes Box uses to sell its plans, and it carries the whole idea: you don't pick the tights, they arrive. Gambettes Box is a subscription launched in Paris in 2012: every month, through the letterbox, two patterned pairs designed by the brand's team and made in Italy. Here is how it works, what it costs, where it ships, who is behind it and why tights on subscription make more sense than they sound.

What Gambettes Box is

The name plays on «gambettes», the affectionate French word for legs. The concept page describes an all-women team "on the second floor of our Paris offices" trying on prototypes, adjusting sizes and choosing "between 12 different patterns". The homepage adds the brand's own figure: since 2012 it says it has dressed the legs of "half a million women". On @gambettesbox, at the start of November 2026, there were around 155,000 followers and more than 3,300 posts.

Behind it is My Little Paris, the Paris company that started in 2008 as a newsletter of addresses and grew into a subscription-box business. The legal notice on gambettesbox.fr names My Little Paris as the site's publisher and its president, Céline Orjubin, as director of publication; the terms of sale name the company GBE&W, at the same address on boulevard de Rochechouart. In 2018 FashionNetwork wrote that the Gambettes Box was «créée un an plus tard», created a year after My Little Box, and quoted Céline Orjubin and Anne-Flore Chapellier as co-founders of My Little Paris. In 2021 Luxe en France named Sixtine Maroniez as head of the brand. In September 2025, again according to FashionNetwork, Ieva Group, Jean-Michel Karam's beauty group, took a stake in My Little Paris; in the deal, the TF1 group became a minority shareholder in Ieva Group.

How the subscription works

You choose a plan, give your size and the brand does the rest. The help centre is explicit: for now you cannot choose what is in the box, because «nous adorons vous surprendre», we love to surprise you. On the subscriptions page, at the start of November 2026, there were three plans:

• The Patterns, €17.50 a month. Two patterned pairs; the best-seller, according to the site.
• Patterns & Basics, €24.50 a month. Two patterned pairs plus a plain black pair in 3D microfibre that changes weight with the season: 15 denier in September, 80 in deep winter, with 30, 40 and 60 in between.
• The Patterns & The Pair of Socks, €24.50 a month. Two patterned pairs plus a pair of socks; the plan marked as new.

The help centre also describes The Opaques, a single opaque or sheer pair a month for €9.50, with the colour (black, coffee, burgundy, navy) and weight (15 to 80 denier) changing each month, and a socks-only subscription: three pairs a quarter, €24 a quarter with a one-year commitment or €34.50 per box without one. In France there is a Les Extras option, €4.90 more a month, with at least one beauty product in each box.

The rhythm follows the weather. From October to March one box a month arrives, delivered between the 1st and the 15th; from April to September come the Double Boxes, one every two months, with lighter tights, socks, an anti-chafing short and leg-care products. For spring-summer 2026 the help centre lists two €35 charges, at the end of April and the end of June. The monthly charge falls between the 20th and the 25th. There is no commitment and you cancel from your account, but with a promo code "certain conditions may apply, such as a commitment for several months". You can pause up to three times a year, one month at a time; for tights, the help centre says the pause applies to the April to September boxes. Returns are accepted within 14 days, with postage to the Barcelona warehouse paid by the customer.

What is in the November 2026 box

This month's box has two pairs. The first is the Spiral Tights in 35 denier: thin black lines winding around the leg on a sheer base. According to the brand the design sold out "in just 15 minutes" at its last pop-up and returns as a limited reissue; the Instagram post says it had been gone for three years. The second is a tartan, which the subscriptions page gives as 40 denier and the illustrated cards on the same page as 35: we flag it because the two figures don't match.

October's box went for houndstooth, «ce motif qui traverse les époques», a pattern that runs through the decades, as the brand puts it on Instagram: a sheer pair with the check in black on a dark base.

Sizes, shipping and the UK

Tights run from S to 2XL. The size chart does not use hips but a grid that crosses height, from 1.50 to 1.85 metres (4'9" to 6'3"), with weight, from 40 to 110 kilos; socks run from 36 to 41 (EU). To compare with other brands there is our tights size chart. On its technical page the brand says it tests on its own panel of wearers, from S to 2XL, rather than on standard fit models.

Gambettes Box does not ship to the UK. The help centre lists nine countries: France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Portugal, served through the European site gambettesbox.com, in English and in euros. The United Kingdom is not among them, nor among the countries the site accepts for an address. The footer promises "free delivery in Europe", while the description of the plan with the black pair says "delivery included (in certain countries)": if you order from outside France, check the total before you pay. In France standard untracked delivery takes 15 days on average; for the first box, allow up to 20 days.

Who makes the tights

The tights are the brand's own, not third-party stock: designed in Paris and made in Italy. The help centre says they come to life in a family workshop near Lake Garda, and the subscriptions page claims "10 years of Italian craftsmanship". The Nos engagements page gives the timings: a machine takes four minutes on average for a plain pair and ten for a patterned one; the two legs are joined with a reinforced seam, then the pair, which starts out white, is dyed, pressed, folded and boxed. On construction the site promises 3D microfibre knit, reinforced toes and dyeing without harmful substances, with OEKO-TEX certification. To wash them properly there is our guide on how to wash tights.

Recycling and sustainability

Since 2020, according to the help centre, the brand has sold tights knitted «à partir de chutes de fils», from yarn waste, the raw material that tights makers usually throw away; the technical page mentions GRS certification. In 2021 Luxe en France reported 40% less water and 50% less CO2 than a conventional pair: these are the brand's figures, not checked by us. In April 2021 Gambettes Box launched a pair made with fibre derived from castor seeds. Transport stays in Europe: the tights are made in Italy and boxed in Spain, «c'est juste 1000 km», just 1,000 km, and «nos collants ne volent pas», our tights don't fly.

There is a precedent for collection, too. In November 2023, for four days, the brand opened a pop-up in the Marais where, according to Sortiraparis, you could swap old tights for recycled ones. Lina El Amrani, marketing manager, cited 7,315 tonnes of tights thrown away in household waste every year in France. We found no take-back programme running on the site today. For a comparison there is our piece on Calzedonia Life Re-Tights.

The numbers

The brand does not publish its subscriber count. The figures we read are these: in 2018 FashionNetwork counted 200,000 subscribers across all of My Little Paris's boxes, three quarters of them to My Little Box; in 2021 Luxe en France wrote «près de 80 000 abonnées en France et en Europe», nearly 80,000 subscribers in France and Europe, for Gambettes Box; in 2025 FashionNetwork put My Little Box and Gambettes Box together at «près de 150.000 clientes», nearly 150,000 customers, a business worth more than half of My Little Paris's estimated revenue of around €30 million. Gambettes Box's own revenue is not public. On Trustpilot, at the start of November 2026, the French site scored 4.1 out of 5 from 503 reviews: praise for the patterns and how long the pairs last, complaints mostly about charges and commitments tied to promotions.

Why a tights subscription makes sense

This part is our reading, not the brand's. Tights are one of the few fashion items used up like a bathroom product: one ladder and the pair is done, sometimes after a single evening. Anyone who wears them from October to March buys them again anyway, usually in a hurry and in the safest colour, black. A subscription turns that forced purchase into a fixed rhythm and adds the part that is usually missing, the pattern: the spiral, the tartan, the houndstooth few people would pick for themselves.

The box calendar follows the logic of weight: the black pair in Patterns & Basics starts at 15 denier in September and reaches 80 in winter, much as our guide on how to choose denier suggests, and in summer the box goes bimonthly. The arithmetic is simple: at €17.50 for two pairs, a patterned pair costs €8.75, postage included; on the €24.50 plan the three pairs come to about €8.17 each. The brand claims a 30% saving against buying single pairs.

The limits are just as clear. The pattern arrives as a surprise, and if you only wear sheer black you will receive tights you may never put on. And a subscription to a consumable only works if the pair lasts its month: our tips on how to stop tights laddering apply to the ones that come by post too.

The photos

The embedded posts are from the official @gambettesbox account. Prices, plans and countries are as shown on the site and the help centre at the start of November 2026. The cover illustration is ours.

One box a month for something that rarely lasts more than a few months: Gambettes Box has turned the spare pair into an appointment.