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Do you think we would be believed

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Julia

Julia Report 3 May 2009 16:53

Well, when I was but a lass about 50 years ago, I worked in the offices of a famous Derbyshire stocking manufacturer. Every quarter we were allowed nine pairs, and as tights were just coming in fashion, you could mix your allocation. One girl in our office had a sister in the Church Army, and not very well off, and they wore grey stockings. So, when we had to fill in our allocation slip, us in our office always ordered a pair of grey stockings, about 20-30 of us, and give this pair to this girl for her sister. When it was just stockings, there was three of us females in the house wearing them. If you got a ladder in one, you saved the other, and when there was enough, me mam boiled them up, and made them into pairs again. Post war spirit and all that.
Julia in Derbyshire

Researching:
Turner Cambs/.Northants, Singapore and Penang,Trengrove Singapore and Penang, Arnull (Champion Race Horse Breeders & Trainers 'Oleander')Germany and Denmark

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 2 May 2009 23:08

you could buy little sticks with glue on the end - you wet the glue and it stopped the ladder!!!

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Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

Jean (Monmouth)

Jean (Monmouth) Report 2 May 2009 19:39

if we told todays girls about queueing for nylons and only being allowed one pair from the stock of any shop that had them? The word used to go round, Plummer Roddis has nylons, and every girl able to would converge on the shop for theirs. When I joined the army in 1953, I was issued with lisle stockings, which were very thick. We were given a pair of gunmetal grey ,40 denier nylon stockings to wear with our NO1 uniform(dress uniform) and we treated them with great care.