• IntroductionNylon riots
  • Background
  • Wartime "stocking panic"
  • End of the war and beginning of riots
  • Accusations
  • ReferencesBooks
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Nylon riots

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The nylon riots were a series of disturbances at American stores created by a nylon stocking shortage.

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Women standing in line for nylon stockings outside Miller's Department Store in Oak Ridge in January 1946.
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