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With shorter trousers and skirts, the long stockings needed to be knit much longer so that the fasteners of the hose supporters to hold them in place would not be visible. Several of the ads for long stockings during this period advertise
stockings as being "extra long". The Wards 1933 catalog, for instance, were selling "Extra Long Playhard" stockings and claiming, "Mothers know that these sturdy stockings do away with with unsightly garters peeping out from under the popular short skirts or pants." Other ads of the period such as this Sears 1936 catalog noted that the longer-knit stockings with their "extra length" come "well up under the short pants and skirts" then being worn by children. In a later Sears 1943-45 catalog the ad copy pointed out that their Pilgrim full-length stockings were manufactured to minimize "knee strain" and garter pull, their extra length providing greater coverage for the
upper leg and insuring that supporters "won't show under short pants and skirts."
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