Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-01-02
Extravaganza IN stockings.
New York Commercial.


One of the esteemed contemporariesi
Philadelphia, incited thereto, no doubt
by the displays in the shop windows, sent
the reporters out for facts in the shoe and
stocking trade. This may seem at the
outset to have been most uninteresting
quest, but it turned out in the end to be
as interesting as that yarn Olive Logan
recently related in the Cincinnati En-
ossirer, to the effect that the coming fash
ion for American women was to be- lace
stockings, each pair, of course, to- cost
fabulous sum. The young men were in
structed to ascertain the fashions worn
and the prices sometimes paid by those
persons indisposed to wear what the COM
mon herd does. they found that the
stocking figures in the fashionable world
rather by fits and starts. For q time
great deal is heard about certain shade
or design being the rage, to the exclusion
of every other variety; but the "rage', Is
generally of short duration, and,i per-
haps, by the time the ladies have occas-
ion to mend the heelssand toes Of their
favorite stocking, they will be out, or no
better than twenty other kinds. The
public mind receives a shock occasionally
by reading the published accounts Of
some Miss Millionaire who was married
in pair of $3.50 stockings, or that she
Lad in her trousseau dozen pairs of 800
stockings. Now this does both good and
harm. 1t does good inasmuch as it causes
married men, whose wives and daughters
are not as economical as they. ought to
be, to give them credit for economy by
comparison. ''My wife Wouldn't do
that they think; or"my wife never
pays more than $3.50 for her stockings"
But on the other hand, old bachelors are
frightened by such extravagant figures,
and reason thus: eff one pair of stock
ings cost 500, what viii one, dress and
one bonnet cost ?'' And before they have
figured it out, stockings, dress and bon
net, and she who might have worn them,
aae given up; and he who might have
been happy husband and father, allows
his domestic affections and natural joys
to be puffed away in cigar smoke. 80
One hundred dollar stockings are,sS Of
course, rare, but we are told that adaiRty
women, with means to supply q fancy
/ Ileg runs IAObs O1uCAa
from Paris of rare design and wonderful
workmanship, and the foreign manufac-
turer or merchant, knowing who he has
to deal with, sets his own price upon
them. But if you go to our city stores to
buy stockings, asking for s'the best
you will seldom be shown anything
higher priced than. 80 and So, and
these aresifk. Fine cashmere wool stock
ings, in the latest designs and shades, are
only $3.50 aud $1.75, while fine woods,
not imported, can be had for from forty
cents to 81 a pair. These are the stock
ings generally bought and worn, for
women, as class, have too much good
sense to throw away so much money for
what will be little seen. g - esf
The male world is informed that col
ored stockings are still fashionable,n and
that many ladies embroider their hose,
spreading beautiful flowers and sweet
blushing buds over their insteps, 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. @
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