| Show Is Silk Sill Stocking Era Passing New Hose Will mill Soon Tell Story ASHINGTON About WASHINGTON VV May 15 several million American women will begin testing a product on whose success s or failure hinges the future of o Japans Japan's year a-year ilk trade with the United totes tates s made of various natural sand nd synthetic sub sub- substances substances substances stances vill OIl 11 go on the market then designed to replace the unglamorous un- un unglamorous unglamorous glamorous silk worm whose glam glam- glamorous glamorous glamorous orous product has sheathed shapely American legs for many years i There will be stockings made of coal air and water water water-a a product trademarked nylon Others are ore made from rubber some from resin and still others from cotton camouflaged so skill skill- skillfully skillfully skillfully fully that it look like cotton If U these substitutes are arc success success- successful successful successful ful the year a American silk stocking industry will be re re- reshaped reshaped re- re reshaped shaped overnight Can CaD It Replace Silk Women are watching the experiment experiment experiment ment with mingled caution and interest in interest in- in interest terest because no stocking material has yet been devised that will flatter their legs like silk In 1938 It ac ac- accounted accounted accounted counted for 88 83 per cent of all stock- stock stockings stockings ings fags sold It has been at once the most luxurious and pestiferous Item on miladys milady's budget for silks silk's cob cob- cobwebby cobwebby cobwebby webby texture will snag and run at atthe atthe atthe the touch of a rough fingernail Nylon most publicized of the new products was perfected in fa duPont laboratories and is now being tested under actual wearing conditions To develop It chemists discovered how to mix coal with air and water ex ex- extruding exI extruding extruding I the mixture into filaments stronger than steel and sometimes as fine as a spider web Sheerer Than Silk In many ways nylon resembles silk overcoming some of its faults yet presenting a few new ones which silk doesn't have Nylon stockings can c m be knit even sheerer than silk and dont don't snag so easily but once they do the run develops more quickly They wont won't spot when splashed by rain or snow because they're water But by bythe bythe bythe the same token they're not so com com- comfortable comfortable comfortable as silk feeling a bit metal metal- metallic lic and cold to the skin Since they absorb only 3 per cent of perspiration tion they may also feel a bit clam clam- clammy clammy clammy my in fa hot weather So confident are arc its sponsors of nylons nylon's success that factories cost- cost costing costing ing fag are arc now being built About pounds of the stuff will be processed this year Another synthetic stocking is that made of resin dust mixed with salt rr r z tir v J Jt t L J a K j 1 M f SPEAKING OP OF III GH ST STAND STAND- STANDARDS AND AND- ARDS Miss ARDS-Miss Miss Virginia Phelan secretary of the National Re Re- Research Research Research search association shown at the bureau of o f standards standard wearing a pair of o f hose which were to be tested on the new snag resist resist- resistance resistance resistance ance tester The machine has lla hasa a sharp point for snagging the stockings Snag resistance is measured and recorded natural gas coal and oiL The chem chem- chemists chemists chemists who produced it expect to turn turnout turnout turnout out pounds a year for rope fish nets sails and women's hose Rubber lose Hose a n. Novelty Rubber stockings now on von the market are knit In lacy meshes and have attracted attention as a novel novel- novelty ty because they stretch to fit the leg snugly From the American farmers' farmers standpoint the most important hosiery development de concerns cot cot- cotton cotton cotton ton which the government Is trying to convert into a beautiful and pop pop- popular popular popular ular stocking material Directed by David H H. Young veteran hosiery de de- designer designer de- de designer signer weavers have perfected 50 or more designs ranging from her her- herringbone herringbone to stripes |
