I feel a little too exposed in a short dress over tights (though less so with thick opaques and knee high boots) so I'd wear it over leggings, since I don't have any jeans.
«The school board was nearly all Baptist, and they drew up a dress code every year that was very concerned with hair and short pants and exposing too much skin,» says Wallar Overton, a childhood friend and Perry's neighbor in Paint Creek.
If you are going to wear shorter boots that will expose more of your legs, I highly suggest wearing black tights with your sweater dressin the fall and winter.