Stockings for all!
March 17, 2010
Ladies! Why confine yourselves to nylon when you can get stockings in silk, cashmere, cotton, rayon and silk crochet at Last Footwear? *drool*
If I were a millionaire and weren’t on the ration, I would be all over these. As it is, I’ll have to content myself with ruining your budget.
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Oh you beast, how can I resist silk stockings, even if they are 40 pounds a pair?!!
@Purpleshoes- i would gnaw my arm off for a good cobbler, and a good tailor as well. Though I think I could survive, for a short time at least, with a decent dry cleaner who didn’t look at me like I am speaking ancient greek when i ask them to steam press my wool yardage (and then charge me 5 million dollars for it).
i love legwear especially non-nylon legwear and now I am trying to wear more of it since I am trying to wear more skirts. I recommend we love colors for solid colored basic tights in every color under the sun. Nylon but fun colors and more friendly to ye ol’ pocketbook.
Agreed on the hairy eyeball from the dry cleaner!
Now on my understanding of the ration, you gave so many coupons for each pair of stockings, but I don’t remember seeing a limit on how much cash you paid for them or what the fabric was for stockings. LOL (just a LITTLE enabling here) Kitty
Funny, you sound EXACTLY like the little devil on my shoulder!
Now those I could understand buying only eight pairs a year of! (Those are much nicer-looking then the local adaptation here, silk long johns and boots. We’re warm! Silly-looking, but also warm! I never thought I’d say “thank god leggings are trendy now”, but it’s nice to be warm without chagrin.)
Also, never mind the stockings, I would gnaw my own arm off if it would get me to a real bespoke shoemaker. The nearest cobbler that I can find only makes hippie clogs, and he’s still an eight-hour drive off. May slow fashion eventually bring back the cobbler, because my feet aren’t any more retail-outlet-ready than the rest of me.
(Oh, incidentally, since I seem to be commenting a whole lot now – I came via dressaday’s link to Colette Patterns, which linked to you? I am enjoying this view of fashion history – I just read Forties Fashion after running across it at the library, and it was just fascinating to me, so your blog is a welcome continuation of the topic.)