Testing Nylon Stockings in Regent's 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