PURPOSE: To readily and surely examine flaws and stains of stockings inserted and stretched in an examining mold plate by making an operator facilitate an operation for inserting a stocking into an examining mold plate.

CONSTITUTION: This stocking examining device of a joining mold plate consists of a stocking tucking up mechanism Aa composed of a pair of examining mold plates Ab into which stockings 2 can be inserted and which movably supports a belt 16 to be brought into contact with the insides of the inserted stockings and a belt driving mechanism Ac which travels the belt of the examining mold plates and tucks up the stockings inserted into the examining mold plates, a mechanism Ac for changing the direction of the examining mold plates capable of inclining the lower part of the examining mold plates Ab from a vertical state into a stocking inserting operation side and an examining mold plate opening and closing mechanism Af for opening and closing each pair of the examining mold plates one by one, inclines the examining mold plates, inserts stockings into the examining mold plates, tucks up the stockings and opens the examining mold plates Ab to examine flaws and stains of the stockings 2.