Olivia Rodrigo's Bright Red Tights Kick Off Christmas Dressing

A black Christmas sweater strung with fairy lights, a tartan mini skirt and, underneath, two legs in red from the thigh to the toe. Olivia Rodrigo opened the season of Christmas dressing in the promo videos for “take me home (4 christmas)”, her first holiday single, filmed with Cynthia Nixon and Ben Marshall and posted on 3 and 4 November 2026. The detail that makes the look is the simplest one: an opaque red tight, in the same red as the sandals.

Below, the two looks with the legs in view, what is known about the tights (not much) and how to copy the outfit for the holidays.

The context: Olivia Rodrigo, Cynthia Nixon and a Christmas song

On 2 November Olivia Rodrigo announced on Instagram that “take me home (4 christmas)”, her first Christmas song, is out on Thursday 5 November at 5pm PT, 8pm ET. Around the announcement came the promo videos, with two guests: Ben Marshall of Saturday Night Live and Cynthia Nixon, Sex and the City's Miranda. HBO Max, home to Sex and the City and its sequel And Just Like That, put it this way: "Our favorite universes colliding."

For a site called Tights and the City, the crossover is hard to ignore. It seems only right that there is a pair of tights in the middle of it.

Look one: the fairy-light sweater, tartan and red sandals

In the three-way video, shot in a wood-panelled room with a Persian rug, Olivia Rodrigo wears a black crew-neck sweater strung with green, yellow and red fairy lights, gold stars and red and white pompoms. Below it, a navy, red and white tartan mini skirt, high on the waist and very short. Then the tights: bright red, opaque, with no visible sheen. On her feet, red sandals with a slim heel, an open toe and a thin ankle strap.

Reality Tea, which covered the look on 4 November, describes "bright red tights that covered her legs entirely" and attributes the sweater to No Boundaries. Next to her, Cynthia Nixon in a cream and burgundy Fair Isle sweater with a long burgundy satin skirt, and Ben Marshall in a red snowflake sweater.

Look two: a red top and the same tights

In the video HBO Max posted with Cynthia Nixon on 4 November, the setting changes: a yellow room, a Christmas tree, presents underneath. Olivia Rodrigo wears a sleeveless red high-neck top, a navy and red tartan mini that looks like the same skirt, and the red tights again; in this light there is a slight sheen on the knees, so the tights may be a little less opaque than they look in the first video. Her shoes stay mostly out of frame.

Cynthia Nixon stands beside her in a red satin skirt suit with a brooch and sheer black tights: two matching reds, two opposite legs.

The tights: what we know and what we don't

The brand is not credited. Neither Olivia Rodrigo, nor HBO Max, nor Reality Tea says who made the tights, and we found no stylist or brand post claiming them. A fan account that catalogues her clothes, @oliviarodrigoclothing, suggests Calzedonia's Opaque Matte Soft Comfort 50 denier as "closely similar": a suggestion, not a credit.

What the footage shows, and this is our reading: a true red, neither burgundy nor coral, opaque or close to it, around 40 to 50 denier; matte in the first video, with a hint of sheen in the second.

Why it works

Christmas red usually sits on the sweater, the bow, the lipstick. Olivia Rodrigo moves it to the legs and carries it down to the feet with sandals in the same colour, so the red becomes one continuous line instead of an accessory. The tartan does the rest: it is the festive fabric par excellence and, with red already woven into it, it ties the legs to the sweater without anything else. A sheer tight would have made the whole thing look lighter and less deliberate; an opaque one says the colour is the point.

How to copy it for Christmas

• An opaque red, 50 denier. That weight gives a full, even colour; below 40 the red turns lighter on the leg and changes tone. Calzedonia's Opaque Matte Soft Comfort in Red Lacquer is $17, and Falke's Pure Matt 50 in Scarlet is the more polished option: both are "similar" picks, not the original pair.
• Tartan with red in it. A navy and red, or green and red, plaid mini repeats the colour of the tights; a grey or beige check makes them look disconnected.
• On top, black or a Christmas sweater. Black keeps the look sharp, a sweater with lights turns it into a house party. More combinations are in our guide to how to wear red tights.
• Open toe, yes, with care. The red sandal over red tights works because it is tone on tone and the tights are opaque; the toe stays on show, so avoid a dark reinforced toe. The rules are in our guide to tights with open-toe sandals; if the sandal feels like too much, a closed red pump does the same job.
• One red only. Tights, shoe and, if there is one, the top in the same red: two different reds side by side are more noticeable than the look.

For the same artist in the opposite mood, barely-there legs under a red mini, see the tour look with Olivia Rodrigo's sheer Wolford tights.

The photos

Both videos are embedded from official Instagram profiles: livieshq's reel in collaboration with Ben Marshall and Cynthia Nixon, and HBO Max's reel with Cynthia Nixon. The photo of Olivia Rodrigo in the cover circle is by Logan Alexandra, from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0), and does not show the Christmas look.

The first Christmas look of the season, in the end, comes down to one pair of red tights, worn all the way to the toe.