At only 29 and with no background in business, Blakely decided to start cold calling hosiery mills, determined to create her own hosiery and shapewear.
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Once they're dry, the experts at Wolford, a celeb-loved luxury hosiery brand, suggest folding one leg on top of the other down the center, like a hosiery leg sandwich.
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Kim Jong Un visits the Pyongyang Hosiery Factory in 2014.
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Jones' choice of hosiery proved most offensive, according to the editor.
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And Target's take on skintone lingerie and hosiery is ultra-affordable.
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This versatile piece of hosiery does tend to be delicate, though.
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"We don't normally have yellow and pink hosiery," Ms. O'Brien said.
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All jokes aside, the concept behind the hosiery is pretty fascinating.
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Concerns about ballet apparel go beyond shoes, though, to hosiery and more.
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Hint: It's all in the accessories, specifically when it comes to hosiery.
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Most noticeably, she didn't wear hosiery in her and Prince Harry's engagement photos.
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The association with femininity makes images of men wearing hosiery all the more transgressive.
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Now the reasonably priced hosiery brand just rolled out its first-ever collection of shapewear.
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Contain the nightmare with fabric dividers, which keep socks, underwear, and hosiery neat and visible.
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It's where W. B. Davis ran the town's first hosiery mill in the early-1900s.
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Blake's family were comfortable, rather than wealthy, as the owners of a hosiery shop and haberdashery.
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MARGATE, England — Women's hosiery isn't something you'd necessarily expect to find hanging in an art gallery.
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BMS dyed yarn for apparel, hosiery, upholstery, mattress fabrics, braids and ropes, health care and industrial products.
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Once she finally landed a hosiery manufacturer, she worked on building a prototype on the nights and weekends.
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While selling fax machines door-to-door full time, Sara Blakely launched a side business to make hosiery.
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In the meantime Gilgi's boss at the hosiery company is showing an unhealthy interest in his young typist.
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An exhibition in England shows how artists have used women's hosiery to talk about race, gender and subversion.
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Penti, which has more than 400 stores and a presence in some 30 countries, sells hosiery, swimsuits and lingerie.
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Corgi Hosiery has been making socks since 7.003, and was awarded a royal warrant in 1989 by Prince Charles.
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After she graduated from high school, Ms. Smith worked in a hosiery mill and, later, for a tobacco company.
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Mr. Congdon also bought the 1932 hosiery mill that will be Plant Seven, a co-working and maker space.
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Since 235, it has been home to Ideal Hosiery shop, which is also a current owner of the building.
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The novel's protagonist, an office girl in a company that makes hosiery, lives at home with her middlebrow parents.
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This six (6) inch rule will apply regardless of leggings, hosiery, or other undergarments worn with shorts, skirts, and dresses.
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Because Middleton is always wearing hosiery, she's developed a trick to not her feet from sliding around in her shoes.
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Nubian Skin has been the pretty rare exception to the rule, creating lingerie and hosiery for women of all colors.
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"It's something we've been thinking about since we first created the hosiery range," a spokesperson for Nubian Skin tells Refinery29.
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Her office décor is entirely hosiery-related: spools of candy-colored yarn on a shelf, mateless samples pinned to corkboards.
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Each is a paper bag containing a large wrapped box and a pair of old-fashioned hosiery still in cellophane.
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Sara Blakely realized all hosiery products were being made by men, so she launched Spanx and took over the industry.
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And women on Twitter cried out in defense of whimsical hosiery: Fashion: Radhika Jones' fox print tights are badAlso fashion: pic.twitter.
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The hosiery market isn't a small one, and there are literally thousands of weaves, blends, elasticities, and fibers to confound you.
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As funerals took place around the country for the former president, those who could not attend paid homage with creative hosiery.
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Shop here for garter belts, corsets, and playsuits, as well as accessories like hosiery, chokers and chains, and extremely intricate whips.
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So I was familiar with the concept of hosiery, but I had never seen anything that was that pretty and that decorative.
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The SGP's exclusively male politicians are often dubbed mannenbroeders (man-brothers), and its female adherents are called "black stockings" for their hosiery.
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Scalina's lingerie, swimwear, pyjamas and hosiery are sold in 100 Scala brand franchised stores which are present in shopping malls throughout Brazil.
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Framed portraits of men like Mr. Davis and W. H. Cobble Sr. hang inside the Hosiery Museum, in a historic storefront downtown.
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This bra is so soft thanks to the hosiery fabric Spanx used and the seamless design of the back and the straps.
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Mr. Trudeau has a penchant for quirky hosiery, and he has previously donned socks honoring "Star Wars" and NATO in public appearances.
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"I realized and figured out what the control-top portion of the hosiery was doing for me in my clothes," she says.
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In the past, he's been captured inspecting everything from hosiery to apples in an orchard, always looking affable and happy to be there.
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Step forward Heist, a revolutionary British hosiery brand that offer tights for every skin shade, in a seamless design and innovative luxury yarn.
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Nester Hosiery, which is based in Mount Airy, North Carolina, has faced its own set of challenges when it comes to sock production.
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Although the building appears completely random and out of place, it succeeds in drawing attention to High Point's historic furniture-building and hosiery industries.
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The statuesque beauty -- she was 6-foot-4 -- was first spotted by photographer Bruce Weber at a Calvin Klein hosiery shoot, according to Vogue.
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Lord & Taylor, going up — eighth floor: robes, lingerie, hosiery; 11th floor: eye, ear, nose and throat clinic, chiropodist, dental care, urinalysis, hospital operating room.
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Rago Auctions, which opened in 1994 in a former silk-hosiery mill on North Main Street, was one of the anchors of that transformation.
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Emily Ratajkowski is the face of DKNY's spring 2017 lingerie, hosiery and sleepwear line and her new ad is so hot, it literally stops traffic.
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Earlier this week I spilled some digital ink complementing Colin Kaepernick's sedentary anthem protest, even as it was undermined by his choice of inflammatory hosiery.
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Research by Andrew Seltzer, an economic historian at Royal Holloway, University of London, finds that the Southern seamless hosiery and lumber industries were also affected.
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The colors and surfaces of the papers are overly intense and matched to the hosiery; secrets of the flesh are sensed, displaced and remain hidden.
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For those of us who refuse to let go of our skirts and shorts, even in the dead of winter, thick hosiery is the holy grail.
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Fashion tights may have been seen on the spring 2018 runways, but back in the '60s, Quant was making vibrant hosiery in vivid yellows and pinks.
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Some companies ban women in public-facing jobs from wearing glasses (a requirement that recently sparked backlash on social media), while others require hosiery and makeup.
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Suddenly, a slip occurs; a rip appears in the crust and quickly propagates away from its origin, much like a run in a pair of hosiery.
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Robin Deas, a textile technician who worked with Tengri's wool at Scottish hosiery mill House of Cheviot, says the biggest problem with yak is its name.
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Forest Mill is a turn-of-the-20th-century hosiery factory converted into 21 apartments; nearby Hawthorne Square was recently built from scratch, with 140 units.
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Others, such as Nubian Skin, were conceived expressly to address the pathetically paltry range of "nudes" available in hosiery and lingerie — and now offer plus sizes, too.
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British startup Heist Studios was founded on the idea that womens' bodies are different shapes, sizes, and colors, and that our hosiery should be designed that way.
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The Italian hosiery company teased the campaign with a short Instagram clip of a woman stepping out of a car wearing polka-dot tights and black booties.
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The technology behind seamless knitted shoes traces its roots back to hosiery (think socks and tights), though widespread use in the footwear industry began earlier this decade.
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Net Worth — Hosiery is typically a trend-resistant category, which is a shame, since a new pair of socks costs way less than a new pair of pants.
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Sometimes overlooked as an element of the baseball wardrobe, hosiery is deeply ingrained in baseball history — the Red Sox and White Sox were not randomly named, after all.
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Eyeing expansion, JCPenney began introducing its own private-label brands, beginning with Marathon Hats and expanding to Gaymode hosiery, Silver Moon lingerie, Big Mac workwear, and Towncraft menswear.
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But, as Mr. Presten likes to say, listen to this: One day, Ms. Anderson went into a small shop on Madison Avenue and 58th Street called Salem Hosiery.
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"These new socks, they can be a real lifesaver," a girl says, peeling off her knee-high hosiery to use as a tourniquet on another student's bloody leg.
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Women's hosiery is, of course, an emblem of femininity: Its physical qualities — stretchy until it inevitably rips apart — underline the notion of women as both strong and fragile.
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Who knows: Instead of shying away from the trend, you too might just find statement hosiery to be the winter accessory you didn't know you were missing out on.
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Walmart continues to beef up its portfolio of digital brands, announcing on Friday that it had acquired Bare Necessities, an online retailer of lingerie, swimwear, hosiery and other intimates.
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No word yet on when that leg-elongating nude shoes will be released, but expect them to be just as affordable as the lingerie and hosiery options available now.
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In the thick Florida heat, she was in search of hosiery that she could wear with open-toe shoes, so she cut the feet off a pair of tights.
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Hips & Curves: There's a lot to shop at Hips & Curves: bras, underwear, shapewear, hosiery, pajamas, and even costumes (see: a Fifty Shades of Grey section), all in plus-size.
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In the same space, Hovsepian presents framed, concentrated contemplations of material associated with women, such as hosiery, in which the stretched fabric creates prisms through which to see other scrims.
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A few years later, "revolutionary hairy leg hosiery"—tights that would make a woman look, from the waist down, like King Kong—became a viral sensation on Chinese social media.
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SAO PAULO, July 15 (Reuters) - Lupo SA, a Brazilian underwear producer, has agreed to buy Scalina SA, a lingerie and hosiery maker backed by Carlyle Group LP, for an undisclosed sum.
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This method is perfect for anyone without a year-round designated hosiery drawer — the bags are sealed tightly so you can store them anywhere, like under your bed, for the winter.
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"[The material] eliminates the need for additional panels, which is traditionally how plus-size hosiery is made, so it offers more comfort and a better all around fit," says the spokesperson.
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A caveat: The tights aren't actually bulletproof, but they use a ballistic grade fiber that claims to be up to ten times stronger than steel, while still making the hosiery sheer.
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I figured this out on the second entry I got, which in retrospect was probably the hardest one unless the drugstore hosiery was in a lot more wheelhouses than I thought.
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LJUBLJANA, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Slovenia's privatisation agency Slovenian Sovereign Holding (SDH) said on Tuesday that state-owned hosiery maker Polzela, which was put up for sale in October, will file for bankruptcy.
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British brand Nubian Skin has been doing an inclusive range of nudes in lingerie since 2014, as well as hosiery in an array of skin tones (now in plus sizes as well).
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The gimmick on L'eggs hosiery was their container, which was a plastic egg-shaped box, a POD; a L'eggs brand bikini bathing suit, therefore, would be a TWO PIECE IN A POD.
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Brands like Stance Socks, which partnered with Rihanna on a collection, and Slate & Stone are selling vibrant hosiery, or pop socks, while Miu Miu recently outfitted runway models in marled and argyle socks.
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The unsanitary hosiery in question first surfaced last Thursday, when the Daily Caller's Saagar Enjeti captured evidence of the bag resting next to what appears to be a fully socked and shoed foot.
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It's officially tights season — that perfect (though sorrowfully fleeting) time of year when you can still get away with wearing a short skirt or dress with the addition of a bit of hosiery.
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The hosiery gave off a nerdy first mate Gilligan vibe (if Gilligan were also a bag lady who kept all her possessions worn in miniature purses strapped to her waist, neck, and other handbags).
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We're reading about a pregnant woman who decides to hunt down a mountain lion in Hollywood, a hockey team of Orthodox Jewish students, and listening to the origin story of the hosiery brand Spanx.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A fish tank with expensive Arowana fish is prominently displayed in many factories making hosiery in the Indian textile hub of Tirupur - the owners believe it will bring them wealth.
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Gilmartin, now a reliever with the Mets, learned from his grandfather to lay his pants on the ground inside-out before slipping them on over his hosiery, forming a snug cuff just below the knee.
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Representatives from VF Corporation, Columbia Sportswear, Nester Hosiery, and NEMO Equipment met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week, letting them know just how hard the U.S.-China trade war is hitting their bottom-line.
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We're reading about a pregnant woman who decides to hunt down a mountain lion in Hollywood, watching a hockey team of Orthodox Jewish students, and listening to the origin story of the hosiery brand Spanx.
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In excess of 227076 pounds of hosiery, waste is created worldwide every year, with that stubbornly linear lifespan – buy, wear, rip, repeat – earning it a reputation as the single-use plastic of the fashion industry.
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She documented a wardrobe that was built on audacious color, especially red, as duteously as she did her menus, keeping detailed notes on when each gown had been worn, with which earrings, bags and even hosiery.
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"We want our message to get across that this is effecting American businesses, American jobs, American innovation and it's just delaying all of that," said Katie Kumerow, sustainability manager for Nester Hosiery, which manufactures specialty socks.
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In 1934, he moved to London, where he supported himself by selling hosiery and other goods for much of the next six years — until the fateful day when he took O'Dwyer's life at a public lecture.
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REGGIO EMILIA, Italy — Last August, when Gabriele Monti was co-curating the "Italiana: Italy Through the Lens of Fashion 22007-270" exhibition in Milan, his first port of call was a 19th-century former hosiery factory.
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Nubian Skin's bras ($28 to $65), undies ($15 to $40), and hosiery ($14 to $16) come in a range of brown and tan hues and styles, from plain, smooth-under-T-shirt bras to lacy sets.
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Not many knew much about the 15th-century tyrant and alleged nepoticide; but Leicester, a rather non-descript, former hosiery hub, in the middle of England, was not known for much either, and some fame was welcome.
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The Great Eros: This dreamy Brooklyn-based intimates boutique is filled with all sorts of extras — from (pretty?) vibrators and perfumes to hosiery and jewelry — but its in-house line of lingerie is easily the big highlight.
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"The tights were a much better match for her and like many of our customers, they say when you know, you just know!" says the hosiery spokesperson, who confirms that Meghan has continued to wear the brand since.
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Indeed, there has been a veritable outpouring of creative hosiery this week, on social media and on the streets and in schools, all in honor of Mr. Bush, himself a famous practitioner of the art of sock diplomacy.
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It's been three years since award-winning actress Julia Roberts starred in her first campaign for Italian hosiery company Calzedonia, and since working with the brand, the self-proclaimed "bare leg" lover has learned to embrace fun, fabulous tights.
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According to the doc -- obtained by TMZ -- Ivanka Trump Marks LLC wants to start using the name on tights, socks, stockings, leggings, lingerie, underwear, bras, panties, shorts, briefs, shapewear, camisoles, tank tops, corsets, chemise, hosiery, undergarments, teddies and sleepwear.
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After popping up on what feels like every single runway this season — from sheer knee socks at Prada to tie-dye ankle socks at Collina Strada — it's safe to say that hosiery is one accessory you don't want to overlook.
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On the tights front, multiple stars wore different variations of the brand's hosiery, but the most popular style was the classic Mat Opaque 80, a heavier knit than the brand's fine nude tights made famous by Princess Kate and Beyoncé.
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Her father, Adrian, who was from a Yiddish-speaking Romanian family, was a businessman who got his start working in his father's hosiery business; her mother, Theresa (Roth) Michelsohn, who was from a German-speaking Hungarian family, was a homemaker.
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Approximately 230 young women strong, the squad arrived for the Pyeongchang Games in matching red wool coats, buttoned at the waist, with black fur trim at the neck and wrists and matching black caps, high-heeled ankle boots and sheer hosiery.
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Some of his clients over the years sound torn from the pages of a Stanley Elkin novel: Lowenberg the celebrity dentist, Baccus the 17-year-old lawyer, Salem the hosiery scion who sold awfully large pairs of stockings and bras.
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Now the long-vacant station is getting a new life, thanks to the Ford Motor Company, which will transform the depot as well as an adjacent book depository, brass factory and hosiery factory into a 1.2 million-square-foot transportation innovation district.
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The south wall is a grid of plastic drawers with the sticker labels, each filled with the minutia of dressing someone for a photograph: belts, underwear, thongs, hosiery, white T-shirts, unitards, leggings, Spanx, and socks from tube to knee-high to ankle to sport.
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I have been dressing women for 40 years and I show their sensuality, I have done it in my advertising campaign, I have shown it as a mother, as a grandmother, as a woman, [I've shown] her legs and her hosiery and her bras and her fragrance.
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Plus, the official royal dress code dictates that one must keep their coat on at all times in public, carry a clutch as a way to not have to shake hands with commoners, not wear wedges in the Queen's line of eyesight, and always wear hosiery.
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It was only once ancient Rome became rich enough for plebeians to decorate their homes that elites sought to do one better by installing mosaics in their villas; in Victorian England working-class women began to don worsted stockings to mimic the silk hosiery of the 1%.
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For Benjamin Millepied, at New York City Ballet, she outfitted dancers in dresses made from black plastic chips sewn onto stretch tulle, and supplied them with matching hosiery that encased each dancer's calf and foot in shiny black plastic, like something a particularly poised dominatrix might wear.
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Heist is causing ripples in the hosiery industry for its extensive study, but there's undoubtedly skepticism that 100,000 skin tones can be represented in just seven different shades, so we asked seven women with diverse skin tones to test the tights and see if they were a match.
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Until the stock-market crash of 1929, her father, Joseph—who had landed at Ellis Island after a childhood in Warsaw—ran a booming women's-hosiery business on Long Island, which doubled as proof of his advanced taste: his plant was one of the first to be all glass.
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FT. $307,690 approximate annual rent 10 West 33rd Street (between Fifth Avenue and Broadway) Manhattan A women's hosiery and footwear manufacturer has signed a five-year lease for 5,305 square feet on the sixth and 12th floors of this 12-story fashion accessory center in the garment district.
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Emboldened by the success of logo-ridden skate wear brands like Palace and Supreme, high-end labels including Prada, Balenciaga, Valentino and Chanel have joined the stampede, their monograms stamped on everything from hats to hosiery and, with a nod to the 1990s, the elastic bands of men's skivvies.
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Compare that with the startup Swedish Stockings, which focuses on sustainable hosiery: If you mail old pantyhose to the startup so it can recycle them, rather than consign them to a landfill, Swedish Stockings will provide a discount code to buy a pair of its own, long-lasting hose.
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Logos raced like a contagion through the spring 2019 collections, breaking out on camp shirts and chain belts at Chanel, on hosiery and sneakers at Prada, on epaulets at Balenciaga and spreading over entire ensembles at Gucci, the luxury house that has been widely credited with lending this trend its impetus.
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"Politics has become extremely contentious and polarizing in this country, and we don't want our brand caught in the political crossfire," said Jacob Hurwitz, a founder of American Trench, a maker of fashion-forward outerwear and hosiery in Philadelphia that prominently displays the motto "Always American-Made" on its website.
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Team: Leicester City The former manufacturing town of red brick terraced houses and hosiery factories about two hours from London has received a lot of attention since researchers from the University of Leicester found a skeleton during an archaeological dig was that of Richard III, a monarch immortalized by Shakespeare, in 2013.
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Prince clearly knew his footwear (and his hosiery, and his tassels, and his cravats), but the idea—widely promulgated online—that Prince invested in Nike in 1971 (when he was 12), got Michael Jordan to sign with the shoe company in 1983, then designed his eponymous shoes is just as crazy as it sounds.
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When we met Julia Roberts in a quaint hotel in Verona, Italy — where the award-winning actress and mother of three was on hand to celebrate her new campaign for the European hosiery brand Calzedonia and later attend the company's annual runway "Leg Show" — she wore a variation on what's become her signature style: black-and-white, which a menswear twist.
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Blake, who was born on Broad Street, Soho, London, the son of a shopkeeper, and lived at various addresses in the capital for all but three years of his relatively long life, had ambitions to be an artist from a very young age, and his parents, who were in the hosiery business, paid for him to go to the Royal Academy Schools to be taught.
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It doesn't hurt that the company has a slew of celebrities routinely wearing the company's hosiery, slips, and lingerie — from Bella and Gigi Hadid favoring Commando's mockneck bodysuits ($78) to Kate Hudson and Jessica Biel wearing the Classic Control Brief ($48) on the red carpet, and even Rihanna opting for the Classic Thong ($22) as her main complement to that now-iconic transparent dress to the 2014 CFDA awards.
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