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Even before the United States entered World War II, disruption of imports and defense demands caused shortages of civilian goods. A shortage of silk caused by the economic break with Japan and the increased need for silk parachutes caused shopping panic and changed women’s fashion 80 years ago.
Extract from The San Diego Union, Sunday August 3, 1941:
Women’s jam stores for coveted stockings
National Defense struck thousands of San Diego women yesterday as the nation faced its first ersatz sacrifice – the removal of silk stockings from Milady’s wardrobe. And how the ladies reacted. No failed bank has ever witnessed a more frantic race than the hosiery counters in downtown department stores as women stood at three and four depths, their money in their hands seeking to buy hosiery in tens of pairs.
A hosiery department head said sales more than doubled during the day compared to regular Saturday purchases.
“The women panicked the morning after hearing about the government order closing the hosiery factories,” he said. “We calmed them down when they got here, telling them that a satisfactory substitute would be found. but the clamor continues.
Women who were looking to drop off a large amount of stockings were warned that keeping silk stockings stored for a long time shortened their lifespan. They reacted in various ways.
Some were outraged, but most were ready to make the sacrifice.
“I don’t see why I shouldn’t get some of the remaining supply,” commented one customer. “I have the money to buy and these stockings will be sold to someone as a hosiery. If this was the silk we now get as a defense aid if it had returned to the factory, I wouldn’t buy a pair.
Buyers at the stores said stock supply would normally last until September or a little longer, but declined to predict how long it would last if the “shopping” on storage counters continued.
“Wholesale houses are only afraid of leads,” they said.
Second page of the article “Silk panic”, published in The San Diego Union, August 3, 1941.
And what about the future without silk once all the reserves are exhausted?
Buyers were unanimous in their opinions. Silk will be replaced by nylon, Lisle thread and rayon because women will not put up with bare legs.
In the past, lisle thread was processed in cheaper hosiery qualities, but when care is taken buyers have said it is almost indistinguishable from real silk. Nylon, they said, was not yet available in sufficient quantity to meet the demand for silk.
Rayon has not been widely used because it does not have the elasticity necessary to make good pipes, but some have argued that methods should be found to adapt it.
Then, they pointed out, there are varieties of mesh pipes which are available and which have gained considerable popularity. And finally, especially in the eyes of the younger generation, there are cotton and other half-socks.

Will Silk Stockings Run? From the Pit
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In New York's Imperial Theatre at 7:45 tomorrow evening, the curtain will rise on a new musical comedy entitled Silk Stockings. There will be a full house, of course--there is always a full house at Broadway openings when the play has been created by such big names a Feuer and Martin George S. Kaufman, Abe Burrows, Cole Porter, and Jo Mielziner. The aura of a big hit will be in the air.
Sprinkled among the first-nighters there will be a few people, however, watching the play with a theatrical sort of morbid curiosity. These few will have come not so much to see a new hit as to see exactly what ails a show that has twice postponed its Broadway opening, has experienced extensive revisions during a full twelve weeks of try outs, and has been formally disowned by the man still billed as it co-author, Silk Stockings, despite its big names and its tremendous $850,000 advance sale, has had more trouble to date than virtually any other musical in history.
The show's main problems have not, however, arisen from bad critical notices not yet, at any rate. Critics in such "try-out towns" as Philadelphia, Boston, and Detroit, the three cities where Silk Stockings has played to far, habitually write with one eye on Broadway; thus they hesitate to pan any show that seems even remotely capable of becoming a hit. Most of the pre-opening reviews of Silk Stockings, accordingly, have pointed out serious flaws in the production but refrained from condemning it as a whole. The play seems "jaded and faded and old and cold," said Cyras Durgin of the Boston Globe who then concluded, typically; "But it will do business!"
The preliminary reviews were deprecatory enough, nevertheless, to convince the producers that they had better keep Silk Stockings out-of-town until they remedied its major defects. Composer Cole Porter consequently has had to write six new songs to substitute into his score--a score which, despite a jukebox hit called "All of You," is still indisputably inferior to his previous successes. And the book, a parody on Soviet ways adapted from the famous Greta Garbo movie Ninotchka, has undergone so much scene-shuffling and rewriting at the hands of co-author Abe Burrows that at one point he eliminated the title song itself. Thus, whereas most musicals play four weeks in just one try-out city, Silk Stockings has played three months in three different locations. Names like Feuer and Martin have produced full houses all along, but the extended try-out runs indicate that Feuer and Martin themselves were somewhat less than confident about the show.
Yet many plays in the past have suffered from, and have eventually overcome, such problems as lukewarm reviews and extended revisions. What hit Silk Stockings in Boston of January 22 was something entirely new and unexpected. Under the headline: KAUFMANS DISOWN SILK STOCKINGS', the Herald reported how George Kaufman and his wife Leueen McGrath, co-authors of Silk Stockings, had just seen the show in Boston after several weeks of absence from the troupe withdrawing from the production. Kaufman has never made clear whether he did not like the show in Boston or simply thought that Abe Burrows had re-written it too extensively. Burrows' name, which was added to the bill at that time, has not hurt ticket sales, but news of the Kaufman's withdrawal has; even yesterday the show's press representative refused to talk about the incident.
Burrows himself, unlike the press agent, confesses that he is rather puzzled by the paradoxical history of Silk Stockings. After tomorrow night, however, neither he nor the agent will have to wonder say longer about the play's future. The fate of this enigmatic production will then rest squarely on the typewriters of seven equally enigmatic New York critics.
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