After World War II, jokingly said for perlon stockings (perlon = a thermoplastic polyamide, belonging to a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers, found 1936 by the German chemist Paul Schlack), which were extremely sought after around that time. With such stockings, soldiers in the American occupation zone in Germany and Austria used to pay girls and women for services of love (service of love: occasional prostitution). – See commodity money, cigarette currency.
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