As early as thousands of years ago, people seemed to understand that being able to cover up or hide is the supreme state of sex.
In the 500th century BC, Ancient Egyptian has a costume similar to "net outfit", which is specially used by dancers.
Even nowadays, "slim stockings" are also the "sexy" "single" and do nothing, but the brain space it causes is endless, just as Mr. Lu Xun said - "As soon as he saw a short sleeve, he immediately thought of white arms and completely naked bodies" .
However, the initial role of stockings is the men in the palace.
16th century, Spanish The royal family separated the trousers and began to use the method of knitting to knit the socks.
Magically, the emergence of stockings has been praised by high-ranking French men, and Louis XIV and even has also set off a trend of stockings with high heels.
The birth of nylon
6html At the end of the third century, with the birth of mechanical knitting machines, European ladies and socialites also began to wear knitted stockings.
However, due to productivity and technological level, the shape and cost of this knitted stockings have always been unsatisfactory.
What really changed the history of stockings is the invention of a new material - nylon.
1935, DuPont chemist Wallace Carlosz made the first nylon sample.
Coal tar . After the mixture of air and water melts at high temperature, it can pull out a hard, wear-resistant, slender and flexible filament - nylon.
Since then, the price of stockings has dropped to $2. The first batch of stockings made of nylon were snatched away in just three hours.
French fashion mother Gabriel Chanel once formulated an iron rule for women: Don’t go out without wearing stockings, don’t go out without wearing a hat.
In 1940, with the official launch of nylon stockings, it became the "American Dream" of all American women almost overnight. Women are eager to pursue stockings, and they consumed 6.4 million pairs of nylon stockings in just one year.
Even in the distant China, the talented woman Zhang Ailing also wrote about her desire for growth when she was young: "I have longed to grow up since I was a child, and I can apply bright red lipstick and wear black stockings with mesh!"
War
However, just one year later, with the Japanese army sneak attack on Pearl Harbor , the United States declared war on Japan.
At this time, Japan controlled the South Asian silk fabric transportation route and was also the main exporter of silk fabrics. As a result, many military supplies, such as hammocks, parachutes, , hemostasis bandages, and other necessary silk fabrics cannot be supplied.
The United States began to list nylon as a military supplies as a substitute for this military supplies, and with it the rise in the price of nylon.
In 1942, the US War Production Commission launched an activity to collect old stockings, encouraging women at that time to donate stockings to save the country.
Stocks are hard to come by on the market, and women without stockings have found another alternative - "magic stockings".
The stockings here are not stockings, but Women use gravy browning agent to apply on their legs, draw the shadows of stockings, and use eyebrow pencil to draw dark stripes on their legs to serve as seams on stockings.
At that time, there was a special service for painting stockings in the beauty salon, and the business was extremely prosperous.
At the same time, women in the country in the midst of war still have not reduced their desire for stockings.
The first person to bow to stockings was a French woman. Because France surrendered earlier, the city was basically not damaged by artillery fire.
Having a pair of thin stockings is their ultimate goal.
When the US military entered France, the stockings they carried with them became a hot spot in the market, and local women flocked to it, even spending their time with them overnight.
Since then, the US military, who have tasted the sweetness, began to use stockings as a necessity on the battlefield.
Even in China-Myanmar-India War Zone , Chinese general Du Yuming received a secret order to escort a batch of "state-owned assets" when he retreated for the first time.
There are special nylon stockings that Chongqing ladies named.
As for the late stage of the war, the US military landed on the devastated Germany. A piece of chocolate, a can of lunch meat, and a pair of stockings could be exchanged for a German woman's embrace.
After the war
With the end of the war, stockings began a long journey of return.
Christmas in 1945, in the slogan of "Nylon Dedicated to Christmas", stockings resume production.
Women rush to queue up to buy. In Pittsburgh, USA, nearly 40,000 ladies lined up all night in the rain. Some people were grabbing, and they didn’t even have time to wait until they got home, so they changed them in public on the street.
However, the patent rights of nylon are always in the hands of DuPont.
Therefore, even after half a year, stockings are still in a serious shortage.
Some areas even experienced incidents of women fighting to buy stockings.
Finally, under the pressure of public opinion, the owner of nylon patent DuPont had to give up and give up the patent rights.
It was not until 1948 that the supply of stockings was officially restored.
A pair of thin stockings like cicada wings has harvested many women's hearts, produced so many romantic stories.
To this day, stockings have always been labeled as gender, sexy, and even "sex". Perhaps one day, stockings will return to their basic functions as clothing and no longer carry too many metaphors and associations.
