The Birth of a Stocking. How Full-Fashioned Silk Hose are Made.

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
148
Date Released
3 Apr 1924
Length of issue (in feet)
920
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
Pathe Intertitles - "A good silk stocking begins with good silk. Hose factories spin their own ..."
"Stockings are made in two parts - the leg first, the foot last. "Shaping" the legs ..."
"The stocking is now taken off the "leg" loom to be "topped" on to the foot loom."
"The foot is quickly made, once the machine gets going ..."
"The foot is completed by sewing heel and toe "ends" together..."
"Seaming back of the stocking. A seam is one of the marks of a fully fashioned hose."
"The stockings are "paired" and inspected on heated stretching irons ..."
"The life of good stockings is long - if they are put on with care."
Keywords
Industry and manufacture; Fashion and costume
Written sources
J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001)   p126.
Pathe Eve 131-169 Boxfile   Issue sheet
Credits:
Production Co.
British Pathe Ltd.
Length of story (in feet)
180

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