SILK HOSIERY
A SYNTHETIC SUBSTITUTE The curtailment of the silk hosiery industry in the United States—consequent on the shutting off of new supplies of silk from Japan and the freezing of silk stocks in America for defence purposes—has directed attention to a synthetic fibre known as nylon. This fibre was the first made entirely from materials of the mineral kingdom, and is said to possess a degree of elasticity that has made it particularly adaptable to the hosiery industry. Nylon hosiery (the ‘National City Bank of New York says in its September survey) was first sold commercially in the United States in May, 1940. Prior to the freezing of silk stocks, nylon hosiery output amounted to 20 per cent, of the production of the women's full-fashioned hosiery, and the present rate will be doubled when a new plant, which is expected to start production this year, is fully operating. Because of its longer wearing qualities, nylon hosiery displaces more than an equivalent amount of silk hosiery.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24738, 15 October 1941, Page 4
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166SILK HOSIERY Otago Daily Times, Issue 24738, 15 October 1941, Page 4
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