Archive for the ‘Hosiery Shops’ Category

In 1949 industrialist Reinhold Wolff (from Vorarlberg) and Retail Businessman Walter Palmers (from Vienna) founded “Wolff & Co” and with their own dye works and moulding shop they took up the manufacture of nylon stockings in the same year that nylon made its entrance in Europe – it was a year later in 1950 that [...]

TightsPlease was born in 2000 out of the frustration of the inconvenience of going to a shop to buy tights, stockings, hold ups and socks; what’s the point of going out to buy some tights for a few pounds and paying at least that much again in petrol and parking (or bus fair)?  Only to [...]

UK Tights is a family run business and was formed in September 2005 by Dawn Barber and her husband Jonathan; they felt that there was a gap in the market and people supplying hosiery weren’t doing as a good of a job as could be so decided to start their own company and give the [...]