“WISPS OF DELIGHT”

Waikato Independent, Volume XLIV, Issue 6101, 12 September 1947, Page 4

“WISPS OF DELIGHT”

ENGLISH NYLONS English manufacturers of nylon stockings regularly infuriate the women of this country with some doubtless well-meaning press release about the quality and virtue of their product, writes the London correspondent of “The Press.” The latest hews is of thousands and thousands of pairs being made from an especially fine yarn. They are “dream stockinars,” “wisps, of delight,” and hiore. Since they can never be found in the shops, this is at least tantalising. Continental tourists find them in Geneva and Brus-

sels, but there are none in the Old Kent road, none even, in Knightsbridge. Faced with postered exhortations to export or starve, women shoppers tend to express a preference for glorious death, wearing nylons, but the significance of the Government’s decision to cut hard currency imports may be clearer when the inevitable food cuts take effect, and when an exported stocking, however wispy, can be related to bushels of grain and pounds of meat.