Testing Nylon Stockings in Regents Park (1956), British Pathé

A model, Leslie May, walks through Regent s Park in London to test out the resilience of her nylon stockings with a series of bizarre stretch tests in this archive footage from 1956. For Archive Licensing Enquiries Visit: Explore Our Online Channel For FULL Documentaries, Fascinating Interviews Classic Movies: , BritishPathé, Fashion, 1950s, Fifties, Stockings Subscribe to the British Pathé YT Channel: (FILM Various shots of the model Leslie May walking through Regent s Park. She sits down on a park bench in front of a lake with Monty Skears. Narrator observes that husbands and boyfriends have to spend a fortune keeping their girls supplied with hosiery but that there is a new product which might save them some money a ladder proof stocking. Leslie takes off one of her stockings (seen in C, U). She hands it to Monty and he ties it onto a large weight. Leslie looks impressed as he swings the weight through the air you