They are also allowed certificates worth nine coupons a year which provide six pairs of unfashioned or three of fully fashioned stockings.
The greater part of ladies' fully fashioned stockings had to be imported before the war.
The company makes the finest fully fashioned hosiery and these modern weaving machines require men to work them properly.
In 1938, about 2½ pairs of seamless stockings were sold in this country for every pair of fully fashioned; and approximately half those fully fashioned were imported.
Fully fashioned stockings are becoming increasingly rare; only a handful of manufacturers worldwide now make them regularly.
A new generation of fully fashioned machines, called complete garment knitting machines, output seamless three-dimensional garments by knitting connected tubular forms.
Unlike other fully fashioned knitting, where the shaped pieces must still be sewn together, finished complete knitted garments do not have seams.
As is the case with all fully fashioned knitting, machines require individual single needle selection (through electronic control) and presser feet (to hold down formed loops).
