Competition
Yet the success of the stocking factory also came to an end. The quality stockings of Hin had a different price than those from low -wage countries such as Italy and Spain. “My father was very hearty,” his daughter Laurine still remembers well. “But at some point it was no longer profitable. There was a huge competition with a different quality.”
The stockings of Hin were of the very best quality, but you also paid 1 guilder 95 for (88 cents, ed). That is why more and more women opted for lesser quality from abroad, because you only had to pay seventy cents for it.