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Towards the end of the war American airmen came to our part of Suffolk. With them they brought chewing gum, jeans, tee shirts and nylon stockings.
Until then my mother had worn lyle type stockings or dyed her legs ... I am not sure but I think that she used tea.
However one day dad arrived home with a pair of these new super fine stockings.
We had all heard that they were so fine that they might be rolled and put comfortably into a matchbox.
To prove this I found one of dad's matchboxes and forced these treasures into it. Unlike today, in those days, matchboxes were made of very thin wood. In forcing the stockings into the box I snagged them on the edges of the wood and ladders ran quickly up mum's legs when she tried them on.
I will not recount what happened next!

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