Lingerie Lesson: The Fully Fashioned Stocking

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School may be out for summer but I have a little lesson for you! I promise it will be fascinating and sexy! It's certainly one I wish I was taught at school. What are fully fashioned stockings? What makes them different? Why are they so rare and expensive? Why do I need a pair?
This hosiery lesson begins at the heel of post-war nylon mania and runs in a - shall we say, linear - fashion right up to the, er, welt that is the elasticated nylon legwear of today. (I promise, I'm usually a good writer.)