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http://abcnews.go.com/WN/70th-anniversary-nylon-stockings/story?id=10649627

70th Anniversary of Nylon Stockings
Women's Love Affair with Nylon Stockings has had a Long Run: 70 Years

Many wondrous inventions debuted at the 1939 World's Fair: color photography, air conditioning and television among them.

As revolutionary as TV was, most women at the time would probably have been most excited by the prospect of a stocking that would last.