I
just love Retro Stockings and Vintage Nylons type of
clothing on women. Here you will find Retro Stockings
Images and Vintage Nylon Models of yesterday. I have
this page, to celebrate this genre of the garter, nylons,
stockings and the roots of fetishism in the 1940's and
50's. So sit back and enjoy this tribute and be sure
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them, there would be no content here. Did you know that
before the 1590s, stockings were made of woven cloth.
The first knitting machines were for making stockings.
The stockings themselves were made of cotton, linen,
wool or silk. A polished cotton called lisle was common,
as were those made in the town of Balbriggan.
Before the 1920s, women's stockings, if worn, were worn
for warmth. In the 1920s, as hemlines of women's dresses
rose, women began to wear stockings to cover the exposed
legs. These stockings were sheer, first made of silk
or rayon (then known as "artificial silk"),
and after 1940 of nylon. The first pantyhose made an
appearance in the 1940s and 1950s, when film and theater
productions had stockings sewn to the briefs of actresses
and dancers, according to actress-dancer Ann Miller.
Today, stockings are commonly made using knitted wool,
silk, cotton or nylon (see hosiery). The introduction
of pantyhose in 1959 provided a convenient alternative
to stockings, and the use of stockings declined dramatically.
In 1970, U.S. sales of pantyhose exceeded stockings
for the first time, and has remained this way ever since.
As a Foot Fetish and Stocking Directory in 2011, I think
it would be rude of me, not to pay homage to these women
that paved the way to this fetish. |
