News Tips Digital Daily Wisc. Queen Elizabeth received her first pair of silk stockings. Nylon stockings are put on public sale for the first time. The supply is exhausted after only four days.
Nylon stockings disappear as the entire output of nylon goes to war.
Women find cotton and rayon stockings poor substitutes, and some resort to painting stockings on their legs with brown makeup, including eyebrow-pencil seams. Women mob the streets during postwar hosiery shortages. The miniskirt is the rage. Hosiery in psychedelic colors, fancy lace patterns and fishnet stockings over opaques complete the look. Pantyhose revolutionize the hosiery industry.