Report issued by the Bureau of Standards discussing laboratory testing of hosiery to determine production costs and to make comparisons. Different manufacturing methods and possible defects are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.

"The method of Poggi is used to calculate, for perfect fluids, the effect of compressibility upon the flow on the surface of an elliptic cylinder at zero angle of attack and with no circulation. The result is expressed in a closed form and represents a rigorous determination of the velocity of the fluid at the surface of the obstacle insofar as the second approximation is concerned. Comparison is made with Hooker's treatment of the same problem according to the method of Janzen and Rayleight and it is found that, for thick elliptic cylinders, the two methods agree very well" (p. 245).