WILLIAM LEE, a fiery young English curate with radical leanings, went one day, some three hundred and fifty years ago, to call upon Cecily Yorke, soon to be his bride. Like most men and all radicals, ...

Perhaps it’s because Secretaries’ Day is fast approaching, or perhaps it’s because with warmer days, those lucky ones amongst us, have already started to roll away those wonderful silky sexy stockings ...

Women's love affair with nylon stockings has had a long run: 70 years. May 14, 2010— -- Many wondrous inventions debuted at the 1939 World's Fair: color photography, air conditioning and ...

Even before the United States entered World War II, the disruption of imports and defense demands caused shortages of civilian goods. A silk shortage caused by the economic break with Japan and the ...

Silk stockings have inspired Broadway musicals and novels, having garnered the top spot in women's intimate garments up until the middle of the last century. Even since the Victorian era, silk ...

Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old ...

As fashion faux pas go, pairing pantyhose with sandals has always ranked right up there with letting your slip show or wearing white shoes before Memorial Day. Not anymore. A brand of toeless hosiery ...

I recently bought a pair of nylon stockings; well, to be accurate, they were pantyhose, which are about all women wear these days for hosiery. Stockings, which require some sort of garment with ...

The versatile and enduring performer Janis Paige, known for her starring role in the Tony-winning 1954 musical “The Pajama Game” and her scene-stealing performance in the 1957 movie musical “Silk ...