St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-07

Su6u Ill THAT uOuSCIOIu
Angelina was sternly informed by her rate
papa that if she couldn't by her stockings
for less than SIT pair she might go with
out those articles altogether.
Angelina must certainly have INDUCED
herself in the highest-priced stockings she
could find in Chicago though by sending to
New York she might have paid $95 for cloth
ing her fairy foot in cobwebby white silk,
hand-embroidered with gold thread, beside
which her SIT investment of plain white.
with lace insertion and embroidery across
| the instep would have looked quite modest.
All sorts of novelties in embroidered
stockings have appeared this season, from
black worked with sprays of wlld-apple
blossoms to pae green with lizard in iri
descent beads meandering down the insttp.
These cost from $40 to SIS. Another kind.
which relieves Angehna's purse of Sl2, Is OF
plain yellow silk, with narrow vertical
black stripes. Still another variety is black,
with single-thread checks about a half an
inch square, these checks made by running
single thread line of color each way
through the fabric. For these SIS is asked.
Solid colors i'll silk are, however, most fash
ionable this autumn, and plain black is per-
haps used more Than anything for everyday
wear. Two dollars is the ordinary price
for black silk stockings, though a good
many pairs are sold at 81 and So each In
colors the most popular shades are pink.
| blue, channels color, biscuit (which is
very light shade OF gray and greeniSh-
white. called water-green or Nile green.
| Chamois color and leather shades, which
are almost exactly like the old balbriggan
color, are worn great deal. Suede, the
color so much talked about, is that OF the
natural silk as it is reeled from the cocoon.
A curious sort of stocking has been called
by the new title of the youngest highest
princess. The Princess Battenberg' has
the front of the instep and ankle in plain
! solid color, the back of the ankle in some
! lighter or contrasting shade, and series of
/ line stripes between the anfle and the
! knee. Above this the stocking is of bal
| briggan color.
The rage for ribbon decorations has eX-
tended even to stockings. A young woman
was seen the Othel day engaged i'll running
three or four rows of the narrOweSt of mar
row ribbon upon the sides of her silk stock
ings in the place where ''clOcks" are usually
woven. The ends were fastened off with
tiny rOsettes and the effect was very pretty.
/ Bronze stockings, to be worn with bronze
shippers, she decorated with pink ribbons,
black with yellow. and channels color with
golden brown OF course, the ribbons have
to be changed every time the stockings are
washed.
1t is generally known that silk which has
never been subjected to any dyeing or other
process is much more durable than that
which has been treated i'll any way. y new
style of stockings has lately been intro
/ ducel abroad and will doubtless be soon
obtainable here, in which the feet
are made of silk that has never
been dyed or processed, excepting for the
removal of portion of the natural gum.
the presence of which makes the silk wiry
and stiff. These stockings are made with
| spliced ankles and heels and extra heavy
soles, and ought to withstand even low
| shoes. which will wear out an ordinary
pair of stockings in very short time.
The very newest stocking is called 1.-THE
mosaic" and has a great variety of cOlOrs
| in blocks of various shapes. The surface
of some of these is notified almost like fine
| Scotch granite. Others have PLAN back
and mosaic front. and others again have
plain fronts and mosaic backs. y gold and
black mosaic IS considered ''swell.'