Fully fashioned stockings

They are made to be worn with a garter belt and are today considered a vintage design of hosiery after largely having been replaced by seamless stockings and pantyhose from the 1960s onwards.

To support the attachment of suspenders, they have a darker section of double fabric at the top, called the welt.

Fully fashioned knitting means that a garment is shaped by increasing and decreasing the number of stitches in a row.

[4] Fully fashioned stockings are made from sections of nylon fabric that are knitted flat from the top down in the shape of a profile view of a leg.

[2][5] Fully fashioned stockings rose to prominence in the market during the 1940s (peaking in the 1950s) with the introduction of Nylon, with over 780,000 pairs sold on the first day and 64 million in the first year of North American sales alone.