Fully fashioned stockings were the most popular style until the 1960s.

Fully fashioned stockings are becoming increasingly rare-only a handful of manufacturers worldwide now make them regularly.

Von Teese has been fond of wearing elaborate lingerie such as corsets and basques with fully fashioned stockings ever since.

Full Fashioned: Fully fashioned stockings are knitted flat, the material is then cut and the two sides are then united by a seam up the back.

Fully fashioned stockings (FFS), are stockings that are knitted flat and then the two sides are sewn together forming the seam.

Fully fashioned stockings are sized to the height and shoe size (generally) of the wearer and as such have little or no stretch in them as they have no lycra (spandex) contained within the yarn.

But William's grandad was too busy working to notice or care, riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he'd broken in for the brewery; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour, sixteen hours a day.

Most manufacturers now offer fully fashioned stockings in a number of different colours, but also contrast seam designs and also contrast seam and heel designs have become popular, definitely a flash back to the vintage years, generally in champagne/copper with a black seam and heel.