0 Fully fashioned clothes such as stockings and tights are made so that they fit the body exactly. --
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).
Unlike other fully fashioned knitting, where the shaped pieces must still be sewn together, finished complete knitted garments do not have seams.
A new generation of fully fashioned machines, called complete garment knitting machines, output seamless three-dimensional garments by knitting connected tubular forms.
Fully fashioned stockings are becoming increasingly rare; only a handful of manufacturers worldwide now make them regularly.
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.
The company makes the finest fully fashioned hosiery and these modern weaving machines require men to work them properly.
The greater part of ladies' fully fashioned stockings had to be imported before the war.
They are also allowed certificates worth nine coupons a year which provide six pairs of unfashioned or three of fully fashioned stockings.
