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

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

#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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←#16 Girls at the Finnermore wood camp huts are here seen knitting sea stockings and jerseys for the crews of wartime convoys. May 1941.
#18 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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