# Nylon stockings and garter belts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nylon-stockings-and-garter-belts/1006069>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 22, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nylon-stockings-and-garter-belts/1006069 "2024-08-22T23:53:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nylon-stockings-and-garter-belts/1006069/41 "2024-09-02T22:43:00Z")

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Just mentioning in passing: A John Boorman film from the late 1980s, **Hope and Glory** , had a sequence where the teenage daughter was going to the USO dance and drew a black ink line up the back of both legs to simulate nylons, which she didn’t have/couldn’t afford (There’s a war on, you know). I think one ink line was very crooked which led to some hilarity.

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**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nylon-stockings-and-garter-belts/1006069/42 "2024-09-03T02:29:19Z")

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😁 well said, Beck, well said!

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