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#5 Crowds of women are buying silk stockings at Gimbels Department store in anticipation of a wartime silk shortage, New York. 1941

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#5 Crowds of women are buying silk stockings at Gimbels Department store in anticipation of a wartime silk shortage, New York. 1941

During WWII Women Painted Their Legs to Mimic Stockings Due to Shortage Of Nylon

#5 Crowds of women are buying silk stockings at Gimbels Department store in anticipation of a wartime silk shortage, New York. 1941

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