Oh, how much I love fashion history. Did you know that stockings were only invented in 1958? The stocking-panty in one combo, we know today was patented in France only in 1958! The most wonderful aspect about these first borns were their name, MITOUFLE! For some reason it makes me smile. It's such a cute name for something so essential and "boring" (in the we're-so-used-to-stockings-today-we-don't-think-about-them-anymore sense). When you think about it, what we consider as our winter essentials today, is quite a modern invention. The above ad for the invention says: "Every woman should have the real mitoufle. Exist in a soft, stretchy, (foam?=mousse), veil that does not slide off."
