hosiery

• “Oct. 27, 1939: Women crowd into a department store in Wilmington, DE to snatch up a new kind of hosiery created at the nearby Dupont plant.”

  Why Not "I Can't Believe It's Not Steel"?

• “I laughed, and told him 'He had better keep his mind on the team, and not think about such things as the kind of hosiery I was wearing, that he must not look upon me as a dry-goods window.”

  A California Girl

• “The Acme Hosiery Mills, of which D.B. McCrary is President, manufactures a large line of hosiery which is sold over a wide territory.”

  Drummond's Pictorial Atlas of North Carolina.

• “At the very least, a VS store is a few steps above the Indian "hosiery" store where storekeeprs would shout "Ei namaa to opor theke ekta aath-threesh boudir jonne" (Ei throw down a 38 for "boudi" here) with all the subtlety of Shatabdi Express and where Gopal ganjee”

  Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind

• “The guests seat themselves, as at a fashionable party, in a semicircle, and the gayety of the evening begins with conundrums and playing upon the banjo; the gentlemen are in their morning-coats, and the ladies in a display of hosiery which is now no longer surprising, and which need not have been mentioned at all except for the fact that, in the case of the first lady, it seemed not to have been freshly put on for that party.”

  Suburban Sketches

• ““The term ‘pantyhose’ originated in the United States, referring to the combination of ‘panties’ (an American term for women’s underpants) with sheer nylon hosiery, meaning they are usually worn without other undergarments.” nrg |”

  I say pyjama…

• “The k sound present in the variant form *kus- shifted to an h sound in the ancestor language of English, as seen in the Old English words hosa and hose, covering for the legs, and early versions of modern hose, as in pantyhose and hosiery.”

  Simon & Schuster: The English Is Coming!

• “Hems became shorter, hosiery was rolled down to reveal parts of the leg, and dresses were deeply cut to expose cleavage.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “So it should follow that when energy companies reap big profits, companies that sell things like holidays, hosiery and hamburgers ought to suffer.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Use Discretion on Gasoline Prices

• “Believe it or not eyewear, hats, gloves, hosiery, and belts can often influence entire runway shows: think of the hats at Balenciaga Spring 2012.”

  The Huffington Post: Filipa Fino: A Stylish Glimpse Ahead

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