Glamorous Nylon

Nylon stockings epitomized glamour in the 1940s and 1950s. This photograph shows an American model being hoisted up a 10-m (35-ft) nylon-clad plaster leg to be filmed for a hosiery advertisement.

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Carothers, Wallace Hume; Nylon

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