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#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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#19 A beautician at the newly-opened Bare Leg Beauty Bar at Kennard’s store in Croydon paints stockings onto a customer’s skin.

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

#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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←#18 Customers have their legs painted at a store in Croydon, so they can save their coupons which would otherwise be used for stockings.
#20 Old silk stockings collected by the WVS are used by airmen under their own socks as a additional means of keeping warm, and are also used to keep bandages clean. 25 September 1941.→

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