The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-04
An to stockings.

Mr.. BERWICK, MERCHANT, MAKES CERTAIN
REVELATIONS ABOUT THE TRADE in THEN.
The Cincinnati Commercial says e. The
riskiest business In America to-day saiG
Berwick, sis the dry goods business, ana
the most unstable part OF the dry soods
business is in the line OF stockings. lneVer
saw ANYTHING like 1t. The caprice OF Ameri-
can women concerning stockings IS some
thing almost surprising belief. Two men
have within the last month been sent back
fo tho limited States from Chemnitz raying
lunatics, driven insane by fluctuations IN
taste in the stocking demand at home"
thought the statement was Joke, ana
smiled. =.
cts strict truth Pm telling you, and no
nonsense. don't know how much longer
rll hold out. My whole existence is one
elongated hose. eat, sleep, drink, ana
think OF stockings" j,
..We've got stockings on the brain" salu
Mr.. White. :.
nOn the brain! should think So" re.
piled Mr.. Berwick. Between the Top OF
my nose and the roof OF my head I've Sol
$4,000 dozen Of stockings packed away.
used to be able to put the whole subject OUT
OF my mind on the Sabbath; now the churcn
! attend is full OF stockings. am wonder
Ing uUTlU2 bDC ithoh WhSo WV Hs>~
| taste Is of every one IN the congregation
concerning stockings, not excepting the
minister and his wife and family. Tbeverv
pulpit is hung with stockings
"a perpetual Christmas"
"Santa Clause is better off than am, for
at least he doesn't have to furnish people
with stockings"
GIVE is it exactly that causes you th's
| great anxiety ?" inquired.
"Thc constant fear of having twenty or
| thirty thousand dozen expensive stockings
thrown on ones bands, dead stock, to he
sold AZ fifty cents on the dollar or what II
costs us, through the crack-brained notion
/ Of some few so-called leaders Of fashion.
why, one noted lady IN atown-one alone
| has it in her power 10 change the styles OF
stockings in the space OF twenty-four hours.
Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Smith can walk INTO
store, ask to look at stockings, be SHOWN
the greatest novelties, and II The Duik OF Tue
stockings happen to be red she mas Dut 70
say, ooh, reds no good now; green, all
the rage That's enough. From tnat mo-
ment we have 10 seize people by the tnroat
and maui them to get them to take req
stocking. Why, even the children know it,
and cry il their mothers, tempted by the
lowered price, want to buy the unfashiona-
BILE color for them. Oh. it is dreadful y
exclaimed the excited hosiery merchant.
"DreadIui! Dreadful! 1t beats Banni.
kerr"
81 infer from your remarks that Amerl-
can women, as purchasers, are somewhat
capricious.'
They are the most capricious, the most
eXtrayagant women that God lets llve,,'
continued he. 81 can't begin 10 tell you all
this nonsense about hosiery. Why, an
eighth of an inch in width Of stripe is SUI
ficient 10 ruin whole invoice OF fine hosie-
ry as selling goods. Stewart was bit this
way recently. They had 10000 dozen hose
with stripe that was pronounced little
too narrow or a little too wide, forget
which, and they had to sell the whole lot at
less than halY-cost price in Europe. And
they were difficult to get rid OF even at
that" ,