Show Is silk stocking era passing new hose will soon tell story ON about VV may 15 several million american women will begin testing a product on whose success or failure hinges the future of japans a year silk ilk s trade with the united states stockings made of various natural and synthetic substances will go on the market then designed to replace the un glamorous silk worm whose glamorous product has sheathed shapely american legs for or many years there will be stockings made of coal air and water a product trademarked trade marked nylon others are made from rubber some som e from resin and still others from cotton camouflaged so skillfully that it look like cotton if these substitutes are successful the a year american silk stocking industry will be reshaped overnight can it replace silk women are watching the experiment with mingled caution and interest because no stocking material has yet been devised that will flatter their legs like silk in 1038 it ac counted for 88 per cent of all stockings sold it has been at ance the most luxurious and pestiferous item on miladys budget tor for silks cobwebby texture will snag and run at the touch of a rough fing fingernail emall nylon most publicized of the new products P ro ducts was perfected in dupont laboratories and Is no being tested under tinder actual wearing conditions to develop it chemists discovered how to mix coal with air and water extruding 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 have nylon stockings bloc kings can be knit even sheerer than silk and dont snag so easily but once they do the run develops more quickly they wont spot when splashed by rain or snow because water resistant but by the same token not so comfortable comfor for table as silk feeling a bit metallic and cold to the skin since they absorb only 3 per cent of perspiration they may also feel a bit clammy m Y in hot weather so confident are its sponsors of nylons success that factories costing are now being built about pounds of t the h e stuff will be processed this year another synthetic stocking is that made of resin dust ened with salt T 01 1 Z 1 1 A 4 ar i 1 P W s f S t t as 11 xi 1 1 1 SPEAKING ARDS kliss aliss virginia vir aki 1 1 phelan secretary of the national t i nal research association shown at the bureau ol of standards wearing a pair of hose which were to bo be tested on the new snag resist ance tester the machine has a sharp point for snagging tho the 8 stockings toc kings snag resistance is measured and recorded natural gas coal and oil the chemists who produced it expect to turn out pounds a year for rope elsh nets sails and hose rubber hose dioso a novelty rubber stockings now on the market are knit in lacy meshes meshel and have attracted attention as a novelty because they stretch to fit at the log leg snugly from the american farmers standpoint the most important hosiery development concerns cotton which the government Is trying to convert into n beautiful and popular stocking material directed by david H young veteran hosiery designer weavers have perfected 60 50 or more designs ranging from her riny bone to stripes |