What type of stockings were very hard to buy during world war II?

Question

Anybody know why?

Answer 1

When America entered World War II, first silk and then nylon were commandeered by the federal government (specifically the War Production Board) to supply defense needs. Overnight, stockings made of any materials became hard to find. Nylon became important to the war effort because it was used, for example, in parachutes and tires. On the home front, the popular press presented nylon as a miracle of technology that Americans could again enjoy when the war ended.

Answer 2

Nylons because they needed oil products for the war, and nylon therads were used in tires and parachute rigging,

They always hav chocolate and nylons in the over seas PX's so the soldiers could cive them as gifts to European girls. It was a morale thing, my grandma says mobody in the US even saw a pair of nylons during the war, but they had them in Europe.

Answer 3

Silk
- the black market got a lot for the girls


they were in short supply because the material was being used to make war clothes and parachutes

Answer 4

Silk stockings. Because they needed all the silk to make parachutes for the paratroopers. That is why nylon stockings were invented.

Answer 5

Nylon stockings, they were also quite trendy and where the ones with the line up the back of the leg so to get the same look women would draw a line up the back of their legs, I wasn't actually born then but this is what I learnt from my granny before she lost her marbles in the ether that is old age.

Answer 6

nylons because they needed the material to build war supplies. women used to cover their legs in dark makeup and then draw a black line down the back of their leg with marker to make it look as if they had on stockings!

Answer 7

Jeremiah and Okieboy are correct. It was silk stockings. Yes, used for parachutes. Take care.

Answer 8

movie stars to think approximately: Betty Grable replace into the pin-up each and every G.I. held expensive. Jimmy Steward rather stop appearing for a whilst and served in the army Air Corps. carry supply, Bob wish, and dozens of alternative A-checklist stars labored the Hollywood Canteen, a USO relax supply up for G.I.s different celebs to think of roughly: Bandleader Glenn Miller died in a plane crash whilst traveling to entertain the troops. Walter Winchell, the information reporter of the era. Micky Mantle

Answer 9

All kinds but cotton. They used silk and nylon to make parachutes, and nylon to reinforce truck tires.

Answer 10

Silk, because they used them for parachutes, and it also lead to the development of Nylon.