http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/threaded/2012/09/stockings-series-part-2-paint-on-hosiery-during-the-war-years/ Just another blogs.smithsonianmag.com site Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:07:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/threaded/2012/09/stockings-series-part-2-paint-on-hosiery-during-the-war-years/#comment-115 Hastykayaker Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:41:10 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/threaded/?p=617#comment-115 For those that can remember the 1940's during the war, you will recall lines often formed at stores for women who jumped in and waited their turn because they thought it was a nylon stocking line. The leg make-up was a messy option, and it never really caught on for most women because this is when slacks became fashionable for the working woman. Rember war defense stamps and bond, and ration books, and gasoline rationing car windshield stickers? Then there were new shoe stamps as well as fake butter (oleo that looked like lard and had a yellow capasule included to give it color. And of course Rosie the Riviter and the USO. Appreciated looking back. For those that can remember the 1940′s during the war, you will recall lines often formed at stores for women who jumped in and waited their turn because they thought it was a nylon stocking line. The leg make-up was a messy option, and it never really caught on for most women because this is when slacks became fashionable for the working woman. Rember war defense stamps and bond, and ration books, and gasoline rationing car windshield stickers? Then there were new shoe stamps as well as fake butter (oleo that looked like lard and had a yellow capasule included to give it color. And of course Rosie the Riviter and the USO. Appreciated looking back.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/threaded/2012/09/stockings-series-part-2-paint-on-hosiery-during-the-war-years/#comment-114 Pamela Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:59:02 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/threaded/?p=617#comment-114 Sorry.....seeing Sorry…..seeing

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/threaded/2012/09/stockings-series-part-2-paint-on-hosiery-during-the-war-years/#comment-113 Pamela Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:58:28 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/threaded/?p=617#comment-113 I love see these articles and photos from before my time. Leg Makeup Bar in a department store in 1944......awesome. More of these please. I love see these articles and photos from before my time. Leg Makeup Bar in a department store in 1944……awesome. More of these please.

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