“Ninety percent of the stockings worn on and off the screen by Hollywood’s famous queens are designed today by Willy’s of Hollywood, who does a brisk 400 thousand dollar-a-year business as Hollywood’s leg man.”
What is not mentioned in this article is the fact that when it appeared on the newsstand, silk had been removed entirely from the civilian market in order to make parachutes.
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