Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-21
FASHION FOR FEET.
STOCKINGS MUST MATCH THE
COLOR OF THE SHOE.
Black Silk Hose All the Go-End-
less Variety in Shoes and
Stockings.
from the New York Sun.

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to previous manifesto or proviso respect
ing the styles in shoes, thin colors in
slippers are permitted upon the street
plain black shoes, suede-colored half
shoes, with black foxings and bronze
colored undressed kid ties, as well as dark
tan-colored seaside shoes, while for full
dress driving in the park bronze half
shoes and ecru slippers are allowable
Accordingly the popular stockings for
summer wear are black, bronze and suede,
colored creations of cotton, Isle thread
and silk, varying in quality Of fineness,
and correspondingly differing in amount
of price only in inverse ratio-the finer
the stocking the greater the cost.
More black stock ings are worn than any
other color, and the prices of the great
variety shown range from 60 cents to $50,
and even $40. Plain black silk hose of
ordinary quality for ordinary wear may
be bought in good quality for 81, SO or 81,
and more OF this kind are sold than any
other
A pretty fancy Of the season is to have
the foot and ankle of stocking black as far
up as it is supposed to be shown even by
accident, and the rest of the leg some
light or bright tint matching in color the
prevailing hue of costume worn-pink,
purple, with green, terra Gotta, pale blue,
and even flesh color, the line OF division
being concealed by band of embroidery
or the two colors being dovetailed together
with serrated edges cut in deep Vandykc
points, the effect of which is very striking
when some particularly disgraceful puddle
threatens the dainty skirts and the wearer
lifts them high out of danger, or when
some especially venturesome little breeze
losses the flounces and frills aside for an
instant.
Another new fancy in black is to have
the upper part Of the foot vowed like lace.
while underneath a scarlet, blue or gold
lining is woven, cleaning through the lace
meshes
In morning stockings there are novelties
shown ornamented with what is called
pique embroidery, raised sort of heavy
stitching in white lines extending perpen-
dicularly on the ankle of the stocking, ter
minating in points at the shoe top. Some
times three or four of these lines are ar
ranged together, thus making broad
white stripe, alternating with an equally
wide black one; again only one line sepa-
rates narrow stripes of black, but in any
case the stripes only extend up and down
the ankle the top of the stocking being
plain, with broad white band on the edge
The suede and bronze stockings are usu-
ally in varying shades to match the
shoes, but for house stockings are fire.
quently worn with open worsted lace feet
and ankles. Some bronze stockings for
evening wear have delicately tinted tips
Of pale mauve, shrimp pink, Nile green
and light yellow, and few of them are
ornamented with pique embroidery on the
ankles.
For evening and dressy house stock
ings, black stockings are ornamented with
what is called the Vandyke clock, which
is band Of embroidery in bright colors
extending up and down the ankles on
either side of the leg, sometimes nearly
two inches broad in the center, and ter
minating in a sharp point at either end
Occasionally the fancy is reversed, the
foot of the stocking being embroidered
i'll little bright tiecks of color, into which
the leg extends in long points of plain
color on either side. Some stockings are
shown in this style composed of gay con-
trasting colors, as Nile green with black
clocks. Gobelin blue with yellow clocks
or pale pink pique stripes, pink and black
or terra Gotta combinations, and pale Law
ender with darker heliotrope embroidery,
but these are for fancy dress and not often
sold. For full evening dress dainty cream
white and tinted hose are shown in all shades
and hues to correspond with the daintyshoes
and dresses worn, but none are so lacy and
silky and beautiful as the bridal hose, the
plainest of which are s. or Sc, and the
more elaborate costing sometimes $35 and
$40. The whole top Of the foot is often
made of Nalenciennes or point lace, from
under which the stocking is cut away to
show the bare white foot through the lace
net sometimes series of diamond or
oval-shaped medallions are inserted, sur
rounded with heavy embroidery in silk.
One pair has series of point lace butter
flies embroidered with dainty stitches up
the ankle, and when worn the pretty
fiesh-colored foot showing through the
lace gives them a pretty flash of pink.
Another has hne of lace leaves, all
the tilmy tracery of veins outlined in the
threads of point applique, and still another
has diamond of point lace extending
from the toe to the calf of the leg, con-
tanning an exquisite tracery of flowers and
leaves designed especially for the place in
which it is used
Gauze fiesh-colored stockings are also
sold to be worn under the colored hose,
many ladies disliking to wear even the
most expensive colored hose next to the
skin, for the least perspiration or damp
ness will cause even the best of colors to
stain. Usually silk stockings and the
higher priced balbrggans do not discolor
the feet much after having been once
laundried, and the stain can be easily re-
moved with ammonia, but still, most ladies
will be glad of change in the fashion of
hose, nothing being so pretty or making
shapely leg and tapering ankle so effective
as the old-fashioned fesh-coloring hose,
with fancy clocks of white.
By somewhat recent amendment to the
code of fashions laws, gloves are permitted
the wrist and hand, but no bylaws yet con-
structed release maiden from the strict
regulation trimness of her hose. All the
sweet girls fasten their stocking high above
the knee as taut and tight as ballet girl
her tights out of sheer self-respect-a
wrinkled stocking being the unmistakable
evidence of "a slattern in the code ofgirlhood.
Some of them make assurance doubly sure
by hitching the long silken stockings up
over their shoulders by an arrangement
of clasps and straps and buckles extend
ing from the hem to the waist line,
where belt fastens and straps
crossed behind go over the shout
ders. This is very nice on ordinary oc-
sions, but when a visionary summer-dress
is worn or an -girdle is fastened on the
shoulders with sash of gauze, the cotton or
webbing straps are decidedly in the way, so
another device has been adopted of a white
satin circular yoke, buckled tightly around
the waist from which depending straps OF
silk elastic with silver clasps fasten the |
long, thin stocking up over the shapely
knees. Then when every one had nicely |
adjusted this arrangement to their COM
fort, along comes some prophet in Israel |
and announces that the straps are ex-
tremely unhealthy and all wrong, and that |
carriers of coiled silver are the only correct |
and proper stocking supports. for they give
with every motion of the muscles and do |