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...week's end, retail stocks were virtually gone. Then the women started in on silk slips and panties, silk socks for their husbands. In the slip department of Manhattan's mammoth R. H. Macy & Co. a sign went up: "Sorry! One to a customer...
Chain stores and specialty shops jumped their prices on silk stockings from 10? to 20? a pair. Department stores followed suit. Silk men said that their present stocks will last about two months. After that, most women will have to wear cotton stockings or go barelegged. The Department of Agriculture announced that it has developed more than 150 new designs for cotton hose, including a cotton-web mesh for evening wear. The supply of nylon (which many women would rather wear than silk) is limited, will amount to only 40% of the market for full-fashioned hose when Du Pont...
Nylon can be eked out by mixing it with silk and rayon, making feet and tops of other yarns. But women may not like these hybrid stockings. And the Army may soon commandeer nylon...
...Diego, Mrs. Julia Dowell, commander in chief of California's women's ambulance & transport corps, ordered her girls to wear lisle. "There will be no bare legs and no silk stockings in this corps," said Mrs. Dowell...
...assumption is that man can use his foresight to forfend against the evils he faces. The U.S. has learned that modern war reaches into every part of a nation's life, that war changes its mind, changes its habits, takes the pots & pans away from the housewife, the silk stockings from the legs of the pretty girl across the street. But it remains to be seen whether Americans are prepared for the organized effort they must make if FORTUNE'S view of the U.S. task is right. If the editors are right the task of organization...