Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-05
sprSSING 4 STOCKING YARN.
,a,k with a Hosiery Clerk ON the styles,
pas, and Presenf-ingcnuity OF
Denver Woman.


usnpcning into one Of the principal
a+nrrr stores q reporter walked np to The
.ierv counter and opened up CONVEX
s,lon on stockings with tile Young woman (
,glo had charge Of the department, and \
.,hn Knew what she was talking about.
s.What are the FIRST stockings You
o,mcnibcr anything aboutfn asked the &c. I
porter. V
,r,t,ans,n said the girl "They continued
"A favor fora long time, being so clean
mixing and healthy for The feet, but they
ansllv went out, giving place to
me cream-tintcd halbriggan, which
has been worn more or
III. ever since. Irish balbriggan
hese sell all the way from Is cents to $50, (
snd tile best ones are beauties, tell YOU.
qtie finest ones are usually bought by
,,olecn IN ordinary circumstances for
N,st wear. They sell for S. Even
working women pay this much for their
i,p.t hosiery So you can see how crazy
bcople are abou, stockings. Women
whose husbands are possessed of mod Z
crate means usually pay about $50 for
Stockings They don't consider that any
price TO pay
aHow long did the barber-polc mania
Mstgn
sob! not very long. Those stockings
were too pronounced, too decided.
MANY ladies refused to wear them, and so
after two or three seasons they gradually
disappeared altogether. some Of them
were of very fine make, and there
WIS more said about them
than has ever been said about any other
,tye Of hosiery. They seemed to elicit
more ridicule thanany other hosiery ever
has done. Tho newspapers all over the
world were filed with stories about them,
and every pun that was made smacked OF
striped stockings, but it's all over now"
'Are women willing to wear stockings
tlcal are large enough for them?'
ayes, indeed they are. They all dctest
darung, and there are only a few women
who can afford to have their stockings
dancd Tor them. They can't throw them
away when the holes come in them, and
So they are careful TO get them long
enough so that their toes won't 90
through on the other slde.n
"What is the average size Ola woman's
st0ckiug?"
"About a number nne. \ number
eight stocking is very small one, and
usually accompanies a number two shoe.
Those who wear number ones have TO
s.nid van s,v that white bosicrv ,vns
r,ircIv on, of detrgr
III cce,ns 10 hp Svcrvvbcrc cvccnt i'm
New Orleans. There they are worn in
preference to any others, Just as white
cotton gloves are worn there all summer
long. It's peculiarly OF the South.
You may account for L possibly by the
theory that white clothes are usually
worn in hot countries that's all the idea
nv ~, ~, ,,on,. crorly crstonore
+,.,roit nnoms,, asked tbn ranortcr
.yoS y siobad tho oiri ,,Yheneyor thc
tooiSs lou -. bioh ,1ho,bo, on. buyers
IN, NJ VA. -. 1,,is ond M nrattcr
tl.,,, ,,a.1, ,r, ,,I,i,r ,in,- t,ntbs ~
thc ,ron,nn viii always insist on boying
Gnnilo bonle ana tors In tboir stockIngs
10 ,,a,,, ,,,inl,lo ana II mikes nc a 1ot
t"tho, Of ca,,,ai, snasons NJ the vco,
faforo tho moods can no ,ottcn from New
M ;,
.,W,a ~ tbp finer stockipus are of
rr.,,ch min are tbey nots,,
tycs mostly. olthouqh some of them
arc made In England Vivid combipa.
lions in The coiorin@s of hosiery usually
Ma hacl, IN some Ercncb mannfacturer.
js likely that fancy stockings originated
In paris
s.Whnt are some of the funny incidents
connectcd With neople who buy stockings
bprryn asked the renorter.
,.T a, mo tbinl, ;, said tho oirl reflect.
iroIy ioaning her heod ON hcr pretty
nlnmn hand nOb, YES Something rich
bannc,od moro ono d,v last winter one
M Tho best.knoyvn ladies In Denver. d
reunlnr customer of The bouse. came in
IN Inv some hosierv for her Young lad,
douc6ter she has onlv one DAUGHTER
and The CLERKS were surprised TO o5serv,
Tint 81. yas hnving nlnrant hosiery il
liSe fbro"G md lii fancy Goods. two
nairs in eacb color one al them wo
mans si1e the otber In a children's size
No cl,ri, ;,hn ,,,aitod on bnr know that
80, ~ ~. ~ ''-i - - smol
storkin" m" woman beot arounC
tbe hnsh awhile bpt finally paral