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Albert's full fashion FF Service Weight nylon stockings were the hardest wearing
nylons for the working gal and service woman's uniform wear.
They wore like iron. Women in the armed forces wore them with the class A uniform.
Women in the service type industries of nurses, nuns, hotel maids, house maids, and resturant and institutional cooks prefered
them not only for durablity but also for the opaqueness they provided for bare skin.
The dullness was less arousing to males then the near nude shinny 15 denier dress stockings of secretaries,
hostesses, sales ladies, etc.. I have the remaining Service Weight nylon stockings from Albert's, period .
I haven't seen these anywhere else. They were very common in the 1940's and 50's. These are not support stockings.
They were made with 60 or 70 denier thread and 54 gauge of needles. The sizes are for the stature of women of the era.
They are smallish and not proportioned for large gals. I have these in taupe(rust), and white.
"FREE A MARINE TO FIGHT": Women Marines in World War II by Colonel Mary V Stremlow, USMCR (Ret) ...
Ladylike and fashionable full length, beige, seamed stockings were de rigeur with all service and dress uniforms and
cotton hose was worn in ranks. Since nylon, rayon, and silk stockings were rationed because of wartime shortages,
some women in other services were allowed to use leg makeup, but not women Marines.
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