The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-05-13
Hosiery.

Dealers say that nine-tenths of their
sales of hosiery are colored stockings.
Black silk stockings are the most stylish
for the street, and also for full dress day
and evening wear with the fghtest
dresses, and also with white. Terra
Gotta and rose are the new shades of
fered this season, and there are also
very dark garnet, cardinal and brighter
Turkey red, with porcelain blue, tan
color, drab, ecru, seal brown, navy
blue, bronze and dark green. Solid
colors are preferred for general wear,
with very light clocking or leaf embroid-
cry up each side. The lace-work open
designs and hand embroidery of self
color or in contrasts are the ornaments
for silk or thread stockings to be worn
with low slippers, and these slippers.
most often OF black satin, are so very
low at the toes that the embroidery on
the stockings begins Just above the
pointed toes, and extends halfway up
to the knees. Small red rose-buds are
wrought on black, pale. blue, pink or
ecru stockings, but the newest style is
the open lace-work with sef-colored
embroidery, or else the whole stocking
is of the lace-like design. These are 81
upward, while the plain silk stockings
are $4 in the light French qualities,
and also in the heavier English
brands. The spun silk stockings
made of raw silk are liked in plain col
/ ors simply clocked, and cost from
$3.50 to IS. The only figured silk
stockings shown have lengthwise ribbed
stripes half an inch wide, in such con-
trasts as black with white, blue with
pink, green with red, olive with ecru
and red with black There are also
mixed silk and Isle-thread long stripes
with the uncertain color of silk, so that
they will wash well. The Balbriggan
hosiery. of American cotton raised in
the Sea Islands, is, shown in various
| qualities, as very fine at Sc a
pair, and perfectly plain, orlwith eight
or ten lines of colored embroidery on
top of the FOOT and in lower prices, with
an inch-wide lace-like band up each
side Amonglower-priced stockings are
the. oil-boiled Balbriggans-either red,
brown, blue or black; these are 1926 a
pair, and there are pale pink and blue
shades at higher prices. For very thin
stockings the French lisle-thread hosiery
is chosen in terraIcotta, rose, tan and
flesh colors at Sl,75.a pair, and to match
costumes of two shades these thread
stockings may be had with embroidery
of contrasting colors. The heavier En-
glish cotton hosiery for morning wear is
shown in. "gingham colors, striped
around the leg, or else in plain olive,
army blue, garnet or black, for S1Ra
pair; also in pale blue, or rose, striped
with white, and in the black and white
stripes used by ladies wearing mourn
ing. All these styles are duplicated for
children, but solid black stockings are
most stylish even for very small girls.
Tiny socks, three-quarter stockings, and
also long stockings are imported of the
heavy English cottons in pencil stripes
of baby blue or pink with white; these
are in the first sizes worn by infants,
and cost from so cents upward. A nov
city is embroidered diamonds of gay
colors all over dark hosiery for girls
For boys especially are ribbed cotton
long hose in solid dark colors-- brown,
blue and cardinal. Colored stockings
should not be boiled, nor should they be
d1ed in the sun. They should be
washed in luke-warm sudS made with
white CASTLE soap Tor other soap that
contains no acid) and rinsed in cold
water They should be both washed
and dried with the wrong side out, and
the drying should be done in the shade
or in heated room. -HarpeJ's Baza
There were $4,000. 900 worth of
barbed-wire fences built in this country