To-day, long after William actually did invent the first hosiery knitting machine, something like five hundred million pairs of silk hosiery are produced each year in this country alone.

There were no ration stamps for hosiery, but stockings became rare. In those days women preferred to wear silk stockings but had just begun to get used to the idea of nylon hosiery. With Japan ...

She looked down to see that her hand lay upon a pile of silk stockings. A placard near by announced that they had been reduced in price from two dollars and fifty cents to one dollar and ninety ...

National defense hit home to thousands of San Diego women yesterday as the nation faced its first ersatz sacrifice — the withdrawal of silk hosiery from milady’s wardrobe. And how the ladies ...

He announced his decision to veto $3,050,000 in loans promised by Farm Security Administration to five cooperatives of Southern subsistence homesteaders to build factories to manufacture silk ...

She looked down to see that her hand lay upon a pile of silk stockings. A placard near by announced that they had been reduced in price from two dollars and fifty cents to one dollar and ninety ...