Sentence examples for hosiery from inspiring English sources

Not only do relics of the licence raj survive some 670 items, including, for example, 21 textile or hosiery products, are "reserved" for small-scale producers the "inspector raj" thrives.

When America's $700 billion rescue package stalled in Congress, Willem Buiter, an economics professor, prolific blogger and honorary Brit, joked that his "remaining financial wealth is now kept in a (small) old sock in an undisclosed location".A worried saver, such as Mr Buiter, shunning banks for the safety of hosiery, still faces a choice about what store of value to use as stocking filler.

A decent transport infrastructure, first installed by the American banana men half a century ago, helps to speed the hosiery to market.

Dior Couture, for example, still has eyeglasses, jewellery, lingerie and hosiery made under licence, though most of its other 300 or so licences have been taken back.Betsey Johnson, whose sexy, fun dresses have inspired a cult following among the baby-boomer generation that loves the Rolling Stones, is negotiating her first licences this year, for shoes, hosiery, lingerie and jeans.

In addition to cotton products, the factory complex produces woolens, rayons, knitwear, blankets, and hosiery.

Bobbinet lace, essentially a hexagonal net, is used as a base for appliqué work for durable non-run net hosiery, and, when heavily sized, for such materials as millinery and veilings.

Haora's river port is lined with shipbuilding and ship-repair docks, and on the riverbank and elsewhere are jute, flour, rice, oilseed, and cotton mills; sawmills; iron and steel rolling mills; and factories making chemicals, glass, hosiery, cigarettes, and batteries.

Industry is mainly concentrated around the larger centres, such as Roermond, Sittard, Venlo, and Weert, and includes the manufacture of light metals, clothing, hosiery, and chemicals.

The city's oldest industry is hosiery and knitwear, but in the 19th century Leicester became famous for footwear manufacture.

Borås is Sweden's leading textile centre, with cotton and woollen mills, dye works, hosiery factories, and weaving colleges.

The main cities along the river Concord, Manchester, and Nashua in New Hampshire, and Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill in Massachusetts—used the Merrimack's waterpower to produce a large portion of the textiles and hosiery made in New England from about 1850 to the 1930s.