Sunday night Joe Cleary the music man arrived with a gift of Pretty Polly Size 3 Monique Stockings wrapped in their original sleeve.Joe told that on the road from Borrisokane to Nenagh in the village of Ardcrony, a signpost says Carney, 2 Miles. Just a pub at a country crossroads. Beside the pub is a derelict house that was once the local RIC station.After 1922 it became private property. The last resident was Miss O'Dwyer who Joe reckons is dead about 40 years.  The house is deserted now and in other hands. The nylons must be about 40 years old Joe reckons and the trouble is that they dont fit me. Showing them to Margaret Carty who remembered the Pretty Polly brand and reckoned that they are a much younger product.
Margaret also knew the origin of the word Nylon being made up oy NY  and LON. A search in Google says that Nylons as in womens stockings started about 1940. The very first use for Nylon was in toothbrush nylon bristle, then stockings and then parachutes and ropes for use in the war. Must put Pretty Polly on the Buy and Sell.