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NYLON STOCKING POST WAR CRAZE WOMENS LEGS ON DISPLAY

In the 1920s the fashionable hemline for women’s skirts and dresses began to rise enough to show a woman’s legs and sheer hosiery that covered the legs was only available as stockings. They were first made of silk or rayon (then known as “artificial silk”), and after 1940 with nylon.
In the 1940s and ’50s film and theater productions were having stockings sewn to the briefs of actresses and dancers. This has been stated by actress-dancer Ann Miller and seen in popular films such as Daddy Long Legs.
In 1953 Allen Gant Sr. of Glen Raven Knitting Mills developed a commercial equivalent dubbed “Panti-Legs”, but didn’t bring it to market until 1959. In 1956 Ernest G. Rice filed a patent for “Combination Stockings and Panty”, demonstrating a superior method, adopted by others thereafter. The patent was disputed for many years in U.S. courts, and eventually upheld, after Rice’s own death.
Up till this point there was little reason for women to wear “panty hose”. However during the 1960s improved manufacturing made them cheaper, spandex (or elastane) made them more comfortable, and the miniskirt made them a fashion necessity. In 1970 U.S. sales of pantyhose exceeded stockings for the first time, and remained this way ever since.
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