He watched her snap a red silk garter over the sheer lisle stocking she had pulled up over her shapely leg.

“I really look forward to selling our greens this time of year because the flavor is so good,” said Mike Nolan, who grows a variety at his Earth Spring Farm in Car­lisle, Pa.

Since the Japanese sacked Nanking in 1937, I have worn no silk at all—and the substituted lisle & rayon hosiery are hateful to me.

I think of orthopedic shoes, lisle stockings, underwear laundered thin and gray, coal cellars.

There hadn't been a better one there, and she had silk stockings while most of the girls had clumsy cotton ones, or at best lisle thread.