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EmilyRose

EmilyRose

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These are my favourite stocking bits and pieces. Narcissus Golden Ray full fashioned pure silk chiffon hosiery, ringless, shadowless, by Australian Knitting Mills LTD. A date? I'm guessing pre war, early 40s, unless some lucky lady received them as a gift from a US sailor?

C No Darn stocking darning threads. No clue on a date of these ones, the font/colours make me think 40s?

And Illusions30 stockings, these ones are from the early 60s? I love the candy pink striped box and wrapping.

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Here's an upclose pic of the silk chiffons.

And, my favourite ones:
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Such a glamorous box, thick card, super thick gold, embossed, quilted paper inside in bright yellow. And.....

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Super sheer, black stockings with velvet flocked flowers all up the leg. Very sexy. Mid 60s? Late 60s?​
 
Hi Emily - gorgeous collection! Well done :)

1 - The Golden Ray stockings are beautiful, I haven't seen any like that and I think they might be '30s so I agree with your pre-WW2 dating. Incidentally, I just googled and found that Narcissus Golden Ray is a type of daffodil! Hence the pic on the packaging.

Lookee what I found! An ad from 1938 in a Queensland newspaper, the Morning Bulletin. That suggests they might be an Aussie product.

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2 - I've got quite a few of those stocking darning threads, I vote '30s for yours.

3 - The Illusions stockings look '60s but they were still being sold in department shops in the late '70s and early '80s so they're a little hard to date. I found many old '60s and '70s stockings were still being retailed when I started buying stockings in '79.

4 - The last ones are spectacular! Can you please show pics of the side, where it will have info printed? My guess is '50s or early '60s and I'm sure they were very expensive - a real treasure.
 
The Narcissus Golden Ray ones are from Australian Knitting Mills LTD. They feel amazing, as silk chiffon does, they must have been so lovely to wear. I don't even dare put a toe in them, I'm sure I'd ladder them. But hey, I have the darning threads to fix them!

I have lots of pairs of stockings in those sorts of little boxes. I think they're adorable. So nice to take them out of a box than to tear open a plastic packet.

The last pair are fantastic, I adore them. They were a re-gifted gift from a friend in the UK. She was given them as a birthday present, but her legs were too....round for them. The side of the box reads ' Sheer extravagance 610L Black Magic Made in U.S.A 10 L' It's too small to photograph. The tissue paper on the inside says 'Sheer extravagance seamless nylons by J Lanes or J Haynes' The print on the top of the stocking (only one) was some sort of print, and has flaked off, but I can make out ' J Lanes or J Hanes, sheer extravagance, all nylons, dacron (?) applique, size 10 Long'.

So, more clues: dacron and nylon. Nylon stockings were in the US in the late 30s? But these are not that old, and then after that nylon went to the war effort- enter rayon... So these would be post war, I'd say late 50s, when it was 'acceptable' to be *this* glam after the war, and women were being bold again. And Dacron? My brain fails me.
 
Oh! Well, no longer I couldn't find them anywhere! I was looking for J Lanes! Haha. Ooops. 50s it is then. Thanks for your help Nicole :)
 
Hi Emily, what a beautiful collection of hosiery and things! yes I agree with everything Nicole said ( as always!) and oh my, those black stockings are just stunning!! lucky you :) Cheers, Gayle
 
I haven't even dared to put a toe in any of them, except the 60s-80s boxed type ones, they're more durable. The black ones are gorgeous, I love them. Thanks for your help everyone. :)
 
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