Midland Montage: 21.05.1959: Nylon Stockings

Summary

Outside a hosiery works in Hinckley, Pat Astley asks women if they prefer to wear fully fashioned or seamless stockings.

Year:

1959

Duration:

0:03:12

Film type:

Black & White / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see nylon stockings being made on a machine and women leaving a factory. Reporter Pat Astley asks a group of women if they prefer fully fashioned or bare leg (seamless) stockings. Astley then interviews Mr Bennett, the manager of Bennett Brothers about the increase in demand for bare leg stockings and the problems of cheap imports for the fully fashioned market.


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