They have been a symbol of glamour for decades, but it appears the bottom has now fallen out of stockings sales in Britain. Once associated with sophistication, they are now considered tiresome and inconvenient by the modern, busy, working woman, a survey has shown. Instead women are choosing leggings and tights, preferring the look of actress Sienna Miller and Kate Middleton, the former girlfriend of Prince William. The growing number of women wearing trousers has also helped consign stockings to the bottom of the drawer beneath the petticoats. Sales of stockings halved in the four years to to five million pounds and now account for only two percent of total hosiery sales, figures collected by retail research group Mintel showed.
Stockings are too tiresome for busy British women - Reuters
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Nylon pirates: the postwar craze for cut-price stockings
Equipped with mirrors, torches and probing rods, they spent five days searching the liner, which had sailed from New York. Furniture, machinery and piping were ripped apart as officers searched for nylon stockings. As well as traditional cargoes of tobacco and spirits, smugglers ran tinned foods, butter, cosmetics, razors, records, fountain pens and lighters into the country. Of these novel cargoes, nylons proved the most popular, rivalling the established traffic in tobacco and spirits. And while postwar conditions made smuggling lucrative, they also made it low risk.
So, we thought it might be interesting to take a little look at the countries that most frequently buy stockings. The results were incredibly close, and the top ten countries all had similar numbers of customers buying stockings - there was literally very little difference in the scores. The results are shown below, but the first thing that you will see is that it is never too hot for stockings! Australia and Singapore both feature in the top ten.