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Post by librarylady on Jun 12, 2023 23:10:55 GMT
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Post by femalebusiness on Jun 12, 2023 23:43:21 GMT
I remember my mom telling me about when nylons were rationed and very hard to get a hold of, she and her sisters would draw a seam up the backs of their legs to mimic the seams in real nylons. It used to piss her off because her one sister couldn't draw a straight line to save her soul and when she couldn't find a sister who could do straight lines she had to go around looking like she had crooked seams.
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Post by Sue on Jun 12, 2023 23:56:30 GMT
My mother also drew a seam on the back of her legs to mimic nylons. She also had a little hook-like tool that was used to repair runs in her nylons. I don't know if she ever used it. It fascinated me as a child and I wish I would have kept it.
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Post by lucyg on Jun 13, 2023 0:06:14 GMT
What a great story. I’ve studied WWII home front but never knew (or, let’s be honest, may have forgotten)  about the sliced bread ban. These days I think those old stockings with the seams up the back look kind of glamorous. When I was a little kid, I thought they were weird and old-fashioned, and even my grandmothers wouldn’t have been caught dead wearing them.  Thanks, librarylady , as always. |
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Post by used2scrap on Jun 13, 2023 0:22:36 GMT
After the pandemic exposed modern attitudes, we will never survive if we have to actually do something like rationing again!
Interesting link. Thank you for sharing.
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Post by femalebusiness on Jun 13, 2023 1:43:10 GMT
I am so old that I actually did wear nylons with garter belts in my early teens. They were “modern” nylons and were seamless, but I hooked them to garters. I started wearing pantyhose in my late teens.
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Post by buddysmom on Jun 13, 2023 1:55:48 GMT
I remember my mom telling me about when nylons were rationed and very hard to get a hold of, she and her sisters would draw a seam up the backs of their legs to mimic the seams in real nylons. It used to piss her off because her one sister couldn't draw a straight line to save her soul and when she couldn't find a sister who could do straight lines she had to go around looking like she had crooked seams. My mom had told me about rationing nylons. She worked at A and P (grocery store) and somehow they bartered or something. Somehow she got nylons. |
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Post by librarylady on Jun 13, 2023 1:58:09 GMT
I am so old that I actually did wear nylons with garter belts in my early teens. They were “modern” nylons and were seamless, but I hooked them to garters. I started wearing pantyhose in my late teens. LOL--panty hose came along when I was in my 20s.
Yes, I had garter belts. I never drew a seam on my leg, but when I began to wear hose, I do remember having to make sure the seam was straight.
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Post by buddysmom on Jun 13, 2023 1:58:46 GMT
Those seams were "in style"/trendy maybe for about 5 minutes in the 70's-ish.
I bought a pair and wow-what a pain to try to get the seam straight.
No wonder they were a verrrry short-lived trend.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 13, 2023 3:30:22 GMT
I am so old that I actually did wear nylons with garter belts in my early teens. They were “modern” nylons and were seamless, but I hooked them to garters. I started wearing pantyhose in my late teens. LOL--panty hose came along when I was in my 20s.
Yes, I had garter belts. I never drew a seam on my leg, but when I began to wear hose, I do remember having to make sure the seam was straight.
Not the only 'belts' we wore! The girls that went to the Catholic school down the street drew lines down their legs. Big trouble when the nuns caught them!! |
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Post by lucyg on Jun 13, 2023 3:59:01 GMT
I wore my first pantyhose at 15. I think they’d been around for a few years by then, but they cost more than nylons and the damn garter belt. So I held out for a while. But we always had tights before that. They were expensive, too, but heavier weight, opaque, didn’t run, lasted a long time. I wore those a lot … we had to wear skirts to school, and it was the height of the mini-skirt era. Yeah, there were rules about skirt length, but I think both the school admins and my parents had just about given up by then. I’d be surprised if my ass didn’t show most days.  |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 13, 2023 4:51:44 GMT
Oh, think panty hose in the "Leggs eggs"
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Post by nlwilkins on Jun 13, 2023 5:49:14 GMT
I remember using a garter belt for my hose/nylons as well as we would wear girdles to help keep them up. the girdles were not to hold your tummy in, but to keep your torso smooth and neat. We also had to wear hats and gloves to church. The hats were simple net things and the gloves were lace at times instead of felt. I kinda miss that now, no reason to dress up anymore - not even wearing panty hose.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Jun 13, 2023 14:27:10 GMT
This from TIME magazine in 1943: The article goes on to describe women fumbling with their grandmothers’ antiquated serrated knives. “Then came grief, cussing, lopsided slices which even the toaster refused, often a mad dash to the corner bakery for rolls. But most housewives sawed, grimly on—this war was getting pretty awful.” And this letter to the editor: “I should like to let you know how important sliced bread is to the morale and saneness of a household,”,,, “My husband and four children are all in a rush before, during and after breakfast. Without ready-sliced bread I must do the slicing for toast—two pieces for each—that’s ten. For their lunches I must cut by hand at least twenty slices, for two sandwiches apiece. Afterward, I make my own toast. Twenty-two slices of bread to be cut in a hurry.” There was really rending of cloth and gnashing of teeth over this sliced bread ban.  With all of the conveniences that we have now, I'd hate to think how this generation would react! |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 13, 2023 15:56:44 GMT
This from TIME magazine in 1943: The article goes on to describe women fumbling with their grandmothers’ antiquated serrated knives. “Then came grief, cussing, lopsided slices which even the toaster refused, often a mad dash to the corner bakery for rolls. But most housewives sawed, grimly on—this war was getting pretty awful.” And this letter to the editor: “I should like to let you know how important sliced bread is to the morale and saneness of a household,”,,, “My husband and four children are all in a rush before, during and after breakfast. Without ready-sliced bread I must do the slicing for toast—two pieces for each—that’s ten. For their lunches I must cut by hand at least twenty slices, for two sandwiches apiece. Afterward, I make my own toast. Twenty-two slices of bread to be cut in a hurry.” There was really rending of cloth and gnashing of teeth over this sliced bread ban. With all of the conveniences that we have now, I'd hate to think how this generation would react! Thing is, I just sliced half a loaf of French bread to freeze for French toast. I do it frequently. |
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about the sliced bread ban.
