Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-08
DAINTY STOCKINGS.
Some Of the Newest Shades and
STYLES of Feminine Foot Cover

From the Philadelphia Press
The stocking figures in the fashiona-
BILE world rather by fits and starts. For
time we hear great deal about GER
tain shade or Il certain design being the
rage, to the exclusion of every other
variety, but the rage" is generally OF
short duration, and perhaps by the time
the ladies have occasion TO mend the
heels and toes of their favorite stockings,
they will be out, or no better than
twenty other kinds. The public mind
receives a shock occasionally by reading
the published account OF some Miss Mil
lOnare who was married III Il PAIR Oi
$50 stockings, or that she had III her
trosseau dozen pairs OF 800 stockings.
Now this does both good and harm.
1t does good inasmuch as it causes mar
ried men, whose wives and daughters
are not as ecomical as they might be, to
give them credit for economy by com.
parison. "My wife wouldn't do that,
they think; or my wife never pays
more than go for her stockings" But
on the other hand, old bachelors are
frightcnened by such extravagant fig
ures, and reason thus: ''If one pair of
stockings cost 500, what will one dress
and one bonnet cOst?" And before
they have figured it out, stockings, dress
and bennett, and she who might have
worn them, are given up, and
he who might have been
happy husband and father, al
lows his dOmetic affections and natural
lows to be pulled away in cigar smoke.
D.. 81 - th.Sn ono hmm
dollar stockings have rather 4 mythical
existence. Dainty women, with means
to supply fancy that runs riot, ire.
uucntlv order stockings from Paris, OF
rare design and wonderful workman
ship. and the foreign manufacturer or
merchant, knowing who he has to deal
with, sets his own price upon them.
But if YOU 20 to our city stores to buy
stockings, asking for the best, You Will
seldom be shown anything higher
priced than IS, and these are silk. Fine
cashmere wool stockings in the latest
designs and shades are only II oWd 40,
while fine woods, not imported, can be
had for from 10 cents to 81 Il pair.
These are the stockings generally bought
and worn, for women, as class, have
ltNJ illUCIl SpD'l NtIlSi W llllOh away 90
much money for what will be little
seen.
Solid color stockings are still fashion
able; so also are the hair-striped. The
newest hair-stockings have the stripes
Interrupted about four inches above the
ankle and Il number OF rows OF little
trees set in. This shubbery is embro-
dcred in silk on the solid color OF the
stocking. Pink trees on brown ground,
or orange trees on a blue ground make
novel little nurScrsics.
Many ladies cmbroidcr their own
stockings, spreading beautiful flowers
and sweet blushing buds over their in
steps and trailing lovely vines around
their ankles Many ladies, also, have
revived the old custom, almost a lost
art. of knitting stockings for themselves
and family. The home-knit stocking is
soft and warm, aud those who wish to
be economical ought to patrOnize it.
There are great many women who say:
II wouldn't sit down to knit stock
ingS when I can buy pair for twenty
five cents; why the yarn would cost
more than that" Yes, but then cheap
bought stockings last no time; one has
to be continually darning them, so that
in short time they have most beggarly
appearance, besides hurting ones feet.
Now, pair OF home-knit stockings do
not cost more than fifty cents; they will
last equal to bought pair OF eighty
cents, with this advantage, that they
can he renewed at the heels and toes,
doing away with so much darning.
Many poor child,s foot has corns and
blisters on it, caused by the badly and
Ovcr-darned stockings, and many man
frets and scolds when all that disturbs
him is cold feet or bit of bad darning
under his big toe.