Very often lisle threads are added to the foot and garter-top to increase the durability of the stockings. |
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During the war years she wore black lisle stockings for work, but it was the Du Pont nylons that were the most prized. |
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She went off to Oxford in the late 1930s in a serviceable tweed suit and thick lisle stockings. |
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My uniform was a navy gym frock and blazer, a white blouse, and black lisle or woollen stockings. |
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She wears heavy brogue shoes and those thick lisle stockings. |
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I stood out like a sore thumb in my lisle knee-socks and street clothes. |
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He wore a feather in his hat, doeskin breeches, lisle hose and an iridescent waistcoat. |
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Lisle stockings were compulsory and much disliked as they did not fit well and wrinkled at the ankles. |
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At that school Coleridge became friends with Charles Lamb, a schoolmate, and studied the works of Virgil and William Lisle Bowles. |
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Lisle is composed of two strands that have each been twisted an extra twist per inch than ordinary yarns and combined to create a single thread. |
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On the evening of the surrender of Colchester, Parliamentarians had Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle shot. |
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Great Dover Street Apartments, Wolfson House and Iris Brook and Orchard Lisle are located on Guy's Campus in London Bridge. |
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