Examples of use of nylons
1. That includes such fibers as polyester and nylons, synthetic substitutes for shoe leather, hard plastic buttons, and plastic zippers.
2. Drafted into the RAF during the war, he served as a bandsman and sold nylons and petrol coupons on the side.
3. There is indeed something unspeakably grim in the ending of The Last Battle, when the children die in a train crash and achieve paradise, all except Susan, who has become too interested in nylons, and lipsticks and invitations.
4. We don‘t have a concept of illegitimacy, but we do not accept prostitution, and many of their delegates had brought nylons and cigarettes and things like that to prostitute our girls." Brief, torrid liaisons between Soviet women and foreign men were common during the festival, according to Kozlov, who called it a "unique sexual revolution" in his memoir.
5. She would come over to the house and just stand back, and her eyes would blink and her head would spin like, ‘Oh, my God, what‘s going on here?‘ " In the fall of 1'60, as Botkin worried about whether she had the proper clothes to go through sorority rush at U–Dub, where they pinched the young women to make sure they were wearing girdles and where nylons were part of the uniform, she received her first letter from her friend in Hawaii.