Panty-Hose Run-Stop® Product Information

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Without a question, women have been plagued with the problem of ripping and, catching, and snagging their pantyhose, stockings, tights, nylons.  Every woman who's ever worn them, has experienced the angst and frustration at ruining a perfectly good pair, and oftentimes, brand-new right out of the package.   Snagging them can be at the most inconvenient and  inopportune time-- while they're being worn, and in the most inappropriate places.  Nothing is more disruptive to a woman's feeling of being "put together"-- than having a run in her stocking, and that confidence turns in to instant self-consciousness and embarrassment.  

For years, women have most-often  resorted to the use of clear nail polish (if available while), or even hair-spray as triage.  Both work, but have their drawbacks-- the clear nail polish leaving an unsightly and very noticeable blob that sticks to the skin-- which later has to be peeled-off, and virtually ruins the stocking.  

Hairspray works better, but being a spray, covers a widespread area leaving a lot of "over-spray" residue, and hairspray cans are not particularly convenient or compact. 

 Pantyhose Run-Stop provides a convenient solution to women to mend or repair the sheer pantyhose, stockings, and tights, of a low denier number (below 30) -- that are delicate and prone to snagging .  Denier 40-50 tights, are heavier, more durable, and generally opaque. 

Run-Stop's composition, is a non-viscous water-based fixative solution-- NOT an adhesive or glue!  The fixative deposits a quick-drying  film of polymer microspheres  to the small compromised area in hose where a snag in the woven microfiber nylon mesh (generally less than 50 denier) resulting in a broken filament or fiber, that will continue to unravel longitudinally creating what's called a "run", or a "ladder" in the U.K., thereby bonding (or "welding") the uncompromised fibers in the woven mesh, to each other without creating a thick globular patch of adhesives or other viscous substances. 

Imagine trying to apply putty or spackle to a tiny hole... the thicker and more viscous the substance is... the worst its going to look.  All that is needed-- is to secure the broken strands of fiber, to the others not compromised or broken-- simply to keep the filaments from unraveling, and developing into a run.  Modern water based polymers are most suited for this application, and adhere to the mesh strands-- without filling in the spaces between the mesh-- providing an elastic and flexible "fix", without being a thick and unsightly patch.

If a minor run has begun to develop, the application of the composition at the end of the run will secure the uncompromised weave, thereby affixing the microfilaments to each other, thereby preventing the further progression of the unraveling woven mesh.

The low viscosity aqueous composition is a fixative-- not an adhesive, and therefore mechanically integrates with and bonds to fibers, without the viscosity of polymerized molecularly-linked synthetic resins found in adhesives an nail polish, which creates a deposition of  a rigid and thick layer.  

A layer can also be pre-emptively applied around the toe-nail section of the ultra-sheer hosiery- to reinforce the small section that often runs from contact the toe-nail being a bit long.    

This claims the utility adaptation of a commonplace lip gloss tube as a dispenser-applicator, to accomplish the objective of providing a small, convenient. and unobtrusive item for a woman purse to carry in her purse ), which is accessible when needed-- usually at the most inopportune moment.

Presuming that a woman wearing hose for work, profession, or a social event, would have an incident of snagging or ripping her hose,  Run Stop™, would instantly be accessible as a triage to treat a snag before it develops into a run by the process of the woven microfibers unraveling beginning at the point of the compromised broken fiber in the woven mesh. .