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The "no-wrapping" order (to save paper) provided a brilliant opportunity for petty pilferers. Working in gangs-a man or children assisting a woman with a shopping bag-shoplifters raided lingerie, stocking and sweater counters. Scotland Yard reported a 25% increase in shoplifting.
"The boys may be stocking up on clothes because they're afraid to wait any more. So that's why clothes sell O.K. But nobody needs to stock up on butts," said another counter-man.
> Said a Manhattan psychologist, Dr. William Moulton Marston: "The most glamorous legs are bare, suntanned. But the most enticing stocking is one of mesh.