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Nylons: To Paint or not to Paint? by Westport Country Playhouse

By Alexandra ScordatoMarketing Intern Image SourceIn the late 1930s, fashionable women desired to wear nylons, a sheer nude pantyhose with a black seam up the back. The DuPont Company, a large chemical company, developed the first nylon stocking in the 1920s and its popularity spread like wildfire: almost 4 million were being purchased daily. After the war started, DuPont switched their nylon factories over from mak…

SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 03:57PM on June 15, 2015

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