The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-15

indigestionP (Blemishes in silk stockings usually are caused by the silkworm having indigestion while spinning Its cocoon.) Artificial silk used in ladies silk stockings is made from the same chemical as gtlnpowder. (And the girls usually fill them with two sticks of dyna- nitei) Nancy Carroll keeps her stockings up with a silver dol lar twisted in the welt And Jane Wyman, reputed to have two of the best looking gams on the screen, keeps her stockings up with adhesive tape, specially made to look like the imprint of pair of lipsl
 More tips for the femmes: A girl with thin legs should wear light stockings and those with heavy legs should wear black stockings. Shad- ed hose make the ankles look thin ner by taking the highlight off the calf. Girls with plump legs should get stockings with a perpendicular weave, wide clocks and pointed heels. Girls with thin legs should get @ horizontal weave and a low heel.
 Japan doesn't get as much from the sale of silk stockings in this country as most people believe. (Only 8 to 10 per cent of every dollar paid for hosiery goes to iJapan) :. There are 12,376 needles in hosiery machine. eve didn't think you'd be interested) .. The best bag for white shoes is an old stocking cut off at the leg Movie cen- sors won't allow a man to put on girls stocking any more, because it's considered immoral. There is mixed opinion about taking them off, however. Sometimes it's con- sidered all right, as after an acci- dent or a spill in brook.) If a talking version of Variety" is ever made, the original circus wagon scene where Emil Jannings put new hose on Lya DePutti's shapely shafts will have to be eliminated.
 The average American business woman buys 25 pairs of stockings 8 year. (But then, it's her stockings in trade.) The Can Can" dance remains the tops = because the girls hide their faces with their skirts If you are an average woman, you will spend at least $50 in the next ten years for hosiery American made stockings are in great demand by French women, ours being superior to those made in France. (We mean the stockings, not the womenD It takes twenty-two people to make one pair of stockings.
 The word hosiery" is derived from the fact that the first stockings were round as a hose The mesh or spider-webbed hose, which once at tracted whistles from the corner hangers-on, today don't mean that the Lady is tramp. (Merely that she has plenty of dough-or what it takes) :. The newest wrinkles in hosiery gadgets are little mirrors on the ankle (instead of slave ank- lets) and papier-mache mudguards (so the Summer showers won't, muddy the hose) It was man who made the heel elevation fashionable. King Louis XIV, who lacked the height to impress the ladies of the French court with the shapeliness of his legs, had high heels put on his shoes. (The heels were red and the rest of the shoe ,black-the contrast calling attention to his hose) Queen Elizabeth (not you, Mrs. George the 6th) was the first hoop-skirter to wear silk stockings-but it took the American girls to make 'em popular When silk stockings first appeared in the Broadway shops, the stand ard wise-crack was: "I'll buy you pair-if I can put 'em on."