GAS STOCKINGS

Evening Star, Issue 23322, 19 July 1939, Page 13

GAS STOCKINGS

“ 3ladam, your stockings' are to be made from gas.” The idea comes from America. 3lr Harold de Witt Smith, speaking at the Textile Conference at Bath, told the hosiery trade all about it. He explained that these stockings will be much more ladder-resisting than silk ones, because of the greater resiliency of the filaments from which the yarn is spun. The new yarn is called nylon. British manufacturers are going to cash in on it immediately, i learn, writes a * Sunday Referee ’ reporter, that a big company is being floated. It hopes to launch the new yarn in the trade within 18 months. So that’s the date when you will be able to buy your made-from-gas stockings. But don’t imagine they’ll look like a series of smoko rings ulown round your limbs. Nylon is woven fast like any other yarn, looks like sheerest silk. It will make stockings almost ladder-proof. Dresses will probablv also bo made of nylon, There is no limit to the uses to which it will be put. Successful experiments hare been made in America for using it for toothbrushes, sewing thread, and fishing lines. Nylon will revolutionise the yarn industry, and may in time entirely replace silk in the manufacture of stockings. For not only is it much more durable—it is much cheaper.