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#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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#18 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

#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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←#17 A woman in the United Kingdom paints her legs with dark paint so that it appears as though she is wearing stockings.
#19 A beautician at the newly-opened Bare Leg Beauty Bar at Kennard’s store in Croydon paints stockings onto a customer’s skin.→

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