The Birth of a Stocking. How Full-Fashioned Silk Hose are Made.
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
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- 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
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