The first knitting machine was made in England in 1589, and the interesting thing is that its maker was an English "priest", named William Lee. In that period, cotton and silk socks were popular fibers among the people. Back then there were many different ways to wear stockings. Sometimes, in cold seasons, they wore several pairs of silk socks together. In the 17th century, when big boots came into fashion, a type of linen boot was worn under the boot to protect the silk stocking.

Until the late 18th century, men wore long silk stockings with elastics and stockings, but since then long pants and short stockings appeared, which have remained fashionable to this day.

In the 19th century, machine-made cotton stockings became available to women. After World War I (1918-1914), short skirts became fashionable and long silk stockings and leggings became popular again, proving that the fashion and length of the skirt dictated the style of stockings.

With the discovery of nylon stockings in the 30's and 40's, the use of silk stockings among women lost color and nylon stockings became fashionable. After the World War, nylon stockings finally replaced silk stockings. But there were other fibers like rayon.

The first nylon stockings were released in New York stores on May 15, 1940, and more than 780,000 pairs were sold on the first day! In the first year, 64 million pairs of Tylon socks were sold in the United States.

Nylon stockings and leggings, which became popular after World War II (1939-1945) and completely replaced silk stockings, were usually seamed until the late 1960s. They had a uniform texture and were knitted and glued to the body.

In the 60s, very short skirts became fashionable in the West, and many women preferred to wear long stockings instead of stockings. Many women wore long socks instead of stockings. As a result, to compete with leggings, the length of socks became much longer than usual to be suitable for wearing with short skirts, but as a result of this change, socks completely went out of fashion and were replaced by stockings. Of course, this happened only in some western countries.

In fact, beautiful and delicate nylon stockings became very popular in the 1960s. While stockings dominated fashion for the previous 400 years. After the 1960s, there was not much change in the sock production industry, and until today, women's and men's socks have only changed to suit current fashions.

In recent years, stockings have become fashionable again and can be seen in fashion corridors and magazines.