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#15 Customers have their legs painted at a store in Croydon, so they can save their coupons which would otherwise be used for stockings.

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#15 Customers have their legs painted at a store in Croydon, so they can save their coupons which would otherwise be used for stockings.

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

#15 Customers have their legs painted at a store in Croydon, so they can save their coupons which would otherwise be used for stockings.

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←#14 Mending their stocking at training and reception Depot for ATS girls in Aldermaston, Berkshire. April 1941.
#16 Girls at the Finnermore wood camp huts are here seen knitting sea stockings and jerseys for the crews of wartime convoys. May 1941.→

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