WOOL AND STOCKINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 61, 9 September 1941, Page 6

WOOL AND STOCKINGS

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Your correspondent vMrs. Dorothy ■'Crombie has apparently sources of supply of raw materials in both wool and artificial silk which are inaccessible to other women. Perhaps you, would allow space to enable her to acquaint her less fortunate sisters of the location of these very desirable supplies. • Time was when my knitting needles ran hot in the production of socks for my husband and son, but now, alas, the rust eats into them as they lie idly by awaiting supplies of ordinary wool —or khaki wool, which is even more important than material^for my husband's or my own smart hose.

I am not competent to say vwhat American women will do, but I feel sure that the women of England have more important jobs on hand than to use their energies for such an impracticable and uneconomic purpose as knitting women's hosiery.. Their menfolk claim their first thoughts in knitted wear, I think. As a skilled and rapid knitter I visualise the amount of time it would take me to produce a pair of stockings for myself even if the necessary wool or artificial. silk thread were available, but imagine a married woman on a limited income, with a husband, two or three children, and her household duties, endeavouring to snatch precious half-hours to make even one pair of stockings for herself—after doing the round of the shops, both town and suburban, in the hopeless quest for wool, etc.—l*1 am, etc., * '•' '■ ■;■.-• ' ■ ■ v-jo:r .. •-'■.-;••■-;■•■

(MRS.) B. W, BRYANT.