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Other foreign perils were short, knee-length skirts, stockingless legs, and "wonderful shoes with the full bare heels show ing."

From Time Magazine Archive

Swarthmore girls like to wear sweaters, skirts and saddle shoes, to a girl go stockingless winter & summer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Russians frown on low-cut dresses and stockingless legs, and scorn women who wear hats or coats in restaurants.

From Time Magazine Archive

She followed the trails with a woodman's craft, and the master had met her before, miles away, shoeless, stockingless, and bareheaded, on the mountain road.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot

His dress is barbarous, an ancient and badly fitting pair of trousers, and stockingless feet in untidy boots, on the heels of which he stamps along the streets with a most unpleasant noise.

From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Meakin, Budgett