Alongside fabric content, one of the things you will pretty much always see listed in a hosiery product description is a 'denier' number. But what does it actually mean, and what do the different deniers look like?

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Alongside fabric content, one of the things you will pretty much always see listed in a hosiery product description is a 'denier' number. But what does it actually mean, and what do the different deniers look like?

Because WTF do the numbers even mean?!

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