Word: nylons
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...Four hundred men's clothing manufacturers, meeting in Boston, optimistically announced that they would dress U.S. males in gay plumage in 1949. Proposed innovations: nylon socks in rainbow colors, jackets with big patch pockets and matching belts, pastel shirts and two-tone belts with big "bold look" buckles...
...prefer to shrug off the whole problem can fall back on scarves--either silk or nylon squares or heavy wool plaid mufflers; leather belts, or gold and silver evening belts; or a ski socks-and-mittens set, or fur earmuffs...
Textiles. A new synthetic textile ("the best we know of for outdoor use") was hailed by Du Pont. Called "Orlon," it is described as warm as silk, as wrinkle-resistant as wool, and resistant to moths, molds and mildew. Though nylon is less likely to tear, Du Pont said that nylon, rayon, linen and cotton were "complete failures" in an exposure test which hardly affected Orlon...
...Well," said one spectator, who, like many Turks, believes that only modern and efficient products come from the U.S., "now we have a nylon Patriarch...
Falk and Rome are desperate. They want it back. It's a full-length female leg, delicately covered with nylon and embellished with a blue lace-and-ribbon garter at the upper extremity...