- Contributed by
- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:
- Anne cresswell
- Location of story:
- Leicester
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A4399365
- Contributed on:
- 08 July 2005
Silk stockings were hard to come by and before the Americans arrived with nylon stockings, girls painted their legs with gravy browning and drew a black line down their leg with a pencil to look like a seam. Of course, once the “Yanks” arrived (Overpaid — even scared and over here) we were able to come by nylon stockings — which had wonderful strength and hardly seemed to ladder at all. One wonders what favours had been given to acquire them, but I was only a school girl in hand knitted socks, so the matter did not arise
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