Possible Clues:

• Synthetic stockings
• Stockings from New York left on top of sideboard
• Might they run as ladies walk?
• Thin tights
• Hosiery introduced by DuPont
• “Our people grumbled for more ____ and washing machines” (Russian ambassador, in Doctor Strangelove)
• Hosiery items
• Hose only used between poles
• Stockings, new, only ruined by son
• Stockings' stuff