nylons with seams
#12
My girls friends and I would want to be like our moms so we would take an eye brow pencil and draw a line up the back of our legs to make it appear as though we were wearing nylons. And, by the way, the seams never did shift as did the real macoy.....lol
#13
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Memories!!!!! Did the eyebrow pencil 'seams' as a teenager! Then wore black stockings with seams as part of my police uniform!! Yep also had the playtex 'rubber' roll-on!!! Oh happy days!!! Rarely wear tights now, just popsox under trousers!!
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Oh yes, I remember them and I remember hating them, too.
I had a hard time getting them on straight in the first place let alone keeping them that way. Getting each leg to look the same was no picnic either. What made it worse was that my legs aren't straight and if I was standing straight with my feet together and you were looking at me from the back, what you saw was the seams forming a perfect V from my heels all the way up!
Seamless stockings were a blessing!
I had a hard time getting them on straight in the first place let alone keeping them that way. Getting each leg to look the same was no picnic either. What made it worse was that my legs aren't straight and if I was standing straight with my feet together and you were looking at me from the back, what you saw was the seams forming a perfect V from my heels all the way up!
Seamless stockings were a blessing!
#16
Originally Posted by cherylynne
I remember my mom saying that sometimes during WWII the girls didn't have silk stockings, so they drew the black seams on their legs with eye makeup.
#17
Oh wow, that's a flash from the past. The only way I kept those seams straight was with constant adjustments. More annoying than adjusting the seams were those garter belts... I swear whenever I sat down one was always digging into the back of my thigh! My aunt told me she wore "invisible" nylons during the war. She drew (or actually one of her sisters drew) a line down the back of her leg so it looked like she was wearing seamed nylons. Of course she also said that too much sitting... and the line got smudged... so she and her friends spent less time sitting and more time standing around and dancing at the USO dances.
#19
I remember getting a whole box of them for Christmas from my dad - the box was big and flat and the nylons were wrapped in tissue paper. I thought I had died and gone to heaven!!!! Thanks for the opportunity for a really great memory.
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