Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-10-26

tier cannot escape the contngion, and talks
about his Maud Mullcr's bare brown feet rs an
important part Of picturesque whole It's
all very wel in poetry. these anclos 'bare and
brown" but | really believe that in actual life
Maud would have been much more pleasing
to the judge had She had the bare feet cover
ed with such dainty embroidered stockings as
I saw the other day at Holbrook's, md pair
of cunning French slippers with double velvet
bows, one at the toe the other crossing the
instcp, between which the elaborate embroi-
derry shows, and which am morally certain
Mosely ordered on purpose to be worn with
Holbrook's stockings
You see
"Ive been roaming, I've been roaming
Where the fashions are sweet
And I'm coming and I'm coming
With its shoes upon my feet"
1t seems to me there is something peculiar
about that quotation. 1t doesn't sound exact
ly right. but I'm in such state of bewilder-
ment that I'm not quite sure of myself.
have got sentiment and slippers, ballads and
boots mixed up in such hopeless confusion
that find it quite impossible to extrcate one
from the other
told Mr.. Mosely how it would be, and
warned Mr. Tucker of the consequences.
should l attempt to discourse upon fashions
for the feet while was Mt the same time ex-
amining Hurd & Houghton's lovely new edi-
ton of the British Poets l think must
be in the condition of young lady l once
knew, whose doting mother, eulogizing her
daughters grace as a dancer, fondly remark
ed My Annals intellect lies in her heels ="
| will try, however, and get my wits sufficient
ly disentangled to tell you about the lovely
hosiery and the pretty boots and slippers
which Dame Fashion decrees shall be worn
this season. think stocking manufacturers
and shoemakers must be in league, for one
seems so adapted for the other What would
he the need of embroidering stockings so
clabortely by hand, if all the dainty work
has to be covered up. For you must know
that Miss Mayflower does not find ''clocked'
stockings quite to her mind; so she has the
daintiest silken hose with lovely designs eni-
broidered on the instep not up the sides as
formerly. but all across the top of the foot
if they are pearl colored she has them embroi-
III bluts WIN lltill sue NNhlh lilt Nhii-
ningest little blue satin quilted slipper, lined
with silk, with rching of satin ribbon
around them, and big bow with cut steel
buckle at the toe. They may be gray en-
broidered with cherry; then the slippers are
cherry satin. They may be dark brown en-
broidcred with bright blue. or black embroi-
dered with cardinal; the satin slippers shall
Ia. !,
ing and the bows shall correspond with the
embroidery. The hosiery needn't be silken il
one cannot afford; it may be Isle thread OF
even very fine Balbriggan, and if you are an
expert with your needle you may ornament
them for yourself | saw lovely pair the
other day which a clever young girl was en-
broidering Il can't afford to pay for them
she said. $50 | ran into Holbrooks, took 4
good look at the embroidered ones there
bought pair of the best plain Isle thread
could afford. and set myself to work to hav,
some pretty stockings" They were pretty
too; she had quick, artistic taste and sh,
had drawn u design Of rosebuds and leaves
and embroidered them i'll shaded pink ant
green floss. But how about the slippers 2
L
of French kid slippers and made the bow
myself There was one full bow of blacl
velvet on the toe. and another, sewed on to
piece of elastic, crossed the instep, leaving
space between through which the embroider,
| showed.
So much for the poetry Of hosiery and shoes
now for its practicability and common sense
| IL, h. ,,luan 10 anita fushippulla tn /,
comfortable. The days of thin soled boot
and gauze stockings for out-of-door wear ar
happily long since passed, and in their place
we have broad. thick sol,d, square toed, loy
heeled boots, hand sewed, in which n womal
can walk all day without the weariness O
flesh and vexation of spirit which attend
round narrow toes and French heels. Thes
are all very well for evening and dress boots
there must he II distinctive style for full dress
and there is no question that French heC
dees make the foot look smaller and NOR
dressed ups" there is also no question tina
it hurts the foot and causes deformities of tn
joints, and renders walking quite painful
Fancy Bertha Won Hillern in French heels
She would be much more likely to wear thos
broad solcd boots with Scotch heels and fu
uppcrs, in which a woman may do day
shopping with perfect case, 1t is mistak
to think that close fitting boot is necessar
to ensure pretty foot know an actres
whose well-shaped feet are the remark of a
who see her. She has her boots made to ol
der, and when she is being measured for theI
she plants her foot firmly ON the ground, an
has drawing made of the sole of her foot
her boots are made after that model, and sh
never suffers from infamed joints or corn
and her feet preserve their natural shap'
Boots like these, and, for street wear, colore
hosiery, are quite the mode. Navy blue an
cardinal are not new; they have been wor
for two seasons, but they still hold their owl
More novel than these are the dark myrt
green, clocked in cardinal or white, blacl
with clocks of all colors, and an old fashic
revived in shape of the Oxford and Cambrid(
mixed grays, These are specially adapted f'
winter and stormy weather, because they n
not soled by the felt and Balmoral skirts
brighter stockings are apt to be, All the
stockings come in heavy English cotton, frI
ly woven, and are as durable as they are no
E el and pretty. You can get the same quail
in white, or in the genuine Irish Balbriggai
for there are Balbriggans which are not &c
uine. The only way to tell the real is by Il
trade mark which is gartered stocking, prir
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