The Telegraph started the run on those tights. Belinda Edwards updates the story WE TOLD you so. It's barely a month since Alexandra Shulman revealed to Telegraph readers her new lunacy - she's on first-name terms with a pair of tights. Now every "It" girl in the nation desperately wants them. They are, of course, Wolford's Follow Me woolly, crocheted tights, which, although they cost £22 a pair, are sold out in every shop in Britain. Kendalls in Manchester and Frasers in Glasgow are both expecting deliveries today, but for others the wait may be longer. Even leading fashion editors are having to reuse old pairs. What's more, at Harrods a customer is said to have offered a woman £75 for the ones she was wearing: the offer was refused. "I've never seen anything like it in the hosiery world," says Dawn at Harvey Nichols. "You would be surprised by who we've got on our waiting lists." Telegraph Magazine's fashion editor, Lulu Anderson, has several pairs in brown but is desperate for some orange-reds to come in. "Apart from everybody wanting the Biba look again, the reason people are so desperate to get them before winter sets in is that they're so warm," she says. There are, inevitably, those who will not wait - "It" girls Nicola Formby and Emily Oppenheimer for a start. Emily says that, while she is loyal to Wolford, desperation might force her "to turn to Christian Dior". Nicola says: "These tights remind me of childhood rows begging my mother not to make me wear them."