Silk Shortage For American Women

Montage of women's legs / crowd of women at department store counter behind which are saleswomen with silk stockings / Government Executive Harriet Elliot makes statement against silk profiteers / montage of machines and workers at silk-weaving factory / two women watch the sea on the deck of a boat / two women on bench cross their legs as the wind blows their skirts / a scientist tests nylon stockings on a machine / stock footage from 1910s of women clad in bustles and corsets / women in beauty salon have their legs painted to resemble stockings / line of young women in bathing suits at swimming pool / woman visible by legs only walks down city street and stops to hike up stockings.