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#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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#16 Girls at the Finnermore wood camp huts are here seen knitting sea stockings and jerseys for the crews of wartime convoys. May 1941.

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

#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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#17 A woman in the United Kingdom paints her legs with dark paint so that it appears as though she is wearing stockings.→

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