Oh Goody! That's handy to know, I'll give it a go then, lol.
Did you know that during the depression (my Mother grew up as a teenager in the depression), the ladies used beetroot juice as a stain on their lips for lipstick, and just a little on their cheeks instead of rouge. Mum said they didn't have stockings either, so they used a fake tan kind of thing on their legs (don't know what they used as fake tan wasn't around then) and used an eyebrow pencil to draw a stocking seam from the back of the ankle to above the knee. Voila! Instant stockings!
See? I am such a useful font of useless information, lol....