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Nylon Stockings Day

Nylon Stockings Day is held on May 15. This event in the second decade of the month May is annual. Help us Help us 
15 May - Nylon Stockings Day
The wearing of hosiery dates back as early as the 15th and 16th centuries. In the early days they were known as hose and worn mainly by men. Initially, stockings were worn by European kings and noble men to make horseback riding easier, and to show their financial and class standing because stockings were made out of silk.
By the 20th Century fashion allowed women to show their legs and in 1939 a new synthetic fiber, nylon, was unveiled at the World Trade Fair in New York. The first nylon stockings went on sale in 1940 and proved an instant hit. Did you know that women once stood in line for hours just to get their hands on a pair of stockings in the 1940s?
DuPont sold four million pairs of nylon stockings in two days after they went on general sale to the public on May 15, 1940, priced at $1.15 each. (A loaf of bread cost 10 cents at the time.) In 1941, sales totaled $25 million.

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