BOTTLED STOCKINGS
POPULAR WITH SYDNEY GIRLS
20,000 PAIRS SOLD IN A WEEK
Sydney's answer to the silk stocking shortage is a demand for "bottled stockings"—liquid tan sponged oil the legs. In the last two weeks, one city chemist lias sold about 20,000 pairs. "A popular line of tan sells at 2s 3d a bottle of 15 to 20 applications," the chemist's, demonstrator (Miss Toni Forrest) said. "We have sold 1000 bottles in the fortnight, and will have to put or. another assistant." Different brands of liquid tan cost from Is to 10s a bottle. Most are sold in several hosiery shades. The colour stays on for several days. Silk stockings will be so scarce by the end of October that they may be worth from 18s lid to £1 Is a pair, Miss Petah King, hosiery specialist, said. "Probably there will be no silk stockings by then—only rayon thread types, which are becoming increasingly expensive, and hard to get," she said. "They are already as dear as prewar pure silk hosiery, selling as high as 10si 6d a pair."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 182, 19 November 1941, Page 2
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179BOTTLED STOCKINGS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 182, 19 November 1941, Page 2
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