Sara Blakely

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.

American Businesswoman

Sunil Mittal

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

Indian Businessman

I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it.

I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.

I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.

Julia Fox

I worked at a shoe store on 86th Street called Orva, in the hosiery department because nobody went there. That's where they put me because I was too incapable of doing anything.

Italian Actress

Betsey Johnson

My prom dress was very sweet, very puffy, but I also wore little stiletto, pointed-toe heels, nylon hosiery, the whole nine yards.

American Designer

Roger Stone

Of course ankle length socks are cheaper, but they don't cover the lower leg as hosiery should.

American Politician

Barbara Castle

I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

British Politician

Sandro Veronesi

Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery.

Italian Novelist

Hosiery refers to items worn on the legs or feet, often under other clothing.

Clothing Category

When shopping, hosiery is typically found in its own section in clothing stores.

Shopping Specific

Quality of hosiery varies; higher quality often means more durability and comfort.

Quality Importance

 he was summoned in the middle of the night by the night watchman at one of his plants. The night watchman had caught an employee who was stealing socks -- it was a hosiery mill, and he simply backed a truck up to the loading dock and was shoveling in mountains of socks. Mr. Teszler went down to the plant and confronted the thief and said,