The morning times., 1896-01-04
Kings Palace,
STOCKINGS WITH POCKETS.
Very Much Better Than Carrying .
Purse In the Hand.
New York World

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The old lady who insisted that she wanted
DO safer bank for her money than her own
| stocking is apparently vindicated by the
latest novelty in hosiery.
| 1t had Just been placed on the counter
when a reporter for the World saw it. 1t
| was pair OF black stockings. Nothing
strange about that. All modern women
wear black hoisery. But these black stock
| ings were like no others ever made.
Right on the outside of each stocking leg.
| near the top, was the cutest little pocket.
woven onto the stocking. Now, very few
women have pockets in their dresses; a It least
none in their Paris dresses. Only women
| with tailor-made gowns and black silk
stripes down the outside seams OF their
| skirts. like Ada Lewis, ever had enough
pockets. But the minute the woman laid eyes
| on those stockings with pockets she knew
the reason why and all about 1t.
1t didn't take a diagram to explain to her
that those pockets were made for valuables.
One woman promptly explained that they
were intended for women 10 keep stray dia-
nlonds in. She asked:
what highwa ynIan would ever think
OF looking there for money. or what pick
pocket, even the most experienced, would
expect To have 10 pick pocket in stock
ing?''
The colors in which the stockings with
pockets are made lend weight TO the idea
that hereafter women dressed for the even
ing viii go down to dinner and not leave
their stray rings and jewels lying around
upstairs for seCond-story burglars but will
sit down to dinner calm in the Consciousness
that their jewels are safe in their stocking
pockets
Some of the prettiest OF designs are in
evening colors-paie pink, cream. lavender
and blue. The pockets on these are al
ways of Il contrasting color, and are
elaborately embroidered with silk in
floral vine designs. Around the pocket
is another inch deep row OF embroidery.
When a woman wears pair of these and
puts on gold garter clasps and fills the two
little pockets with rolls OF bills, she is al
together too valuable TO lose u limb in a
Brooklyn trolley catastrophe.
Naturally the woman who is accustomed
to carrying her wealth hidden in her stock
ing will at once take to pocsetsin her stock
ings. and the only marvel is that nobody
has ever thought of the idea before
Although it is too neat an idea to have
been born anywhere but In the brains OF
a Connecticut Yankee. at the same time the
stockings are stamped made In Germany"
but the knowing saleswomen say:
"Thcy are from Paris" There is a belief
that only elderly women ana Immigrant
are given to securing ready cash where they
can't get at il without retiring to some Sc
cluded corner. 4 woman who has beer
travelling continually declares that she
got over being astcnished at the number
of cultivated women who are never sure
their money or bills Of exchange are safe
except when stuffed down into their stock.
ings.
A very clever business woman, the finan-
a-a of r1rhl
business that clears for its two partners
$4,000 each a year, never thinks of trust
ing all her travelling cash to even the in
side pocket in her vest, but makes sure
she has Il reserve fund pinned inside her
stocking.
In all the women'S parlors in railroad
stations and in the large shops such num-
bers of women are seen daily taking rolls
of bills from their hosiery hiding places
that this little pocket on the stocking mani
festIy filled an ancient want
p. This pocket comes above and on the out
side of the knee. 1t is just vide enough TO
hold coed roll of bills, or watch, or any
small yaluahles the wearer may want to
protect especially. Some of the pockets arc
five or six inches in depth, Others little
less elaborate decorations. aud would easily
hold n few thousaud dollars and couple
of moderate-sized diamond necklaces.
The pockets are ornamented with some
,lrpI designs. The fayorites are prlml-
five likeness of the man in the moon, very
leau-lookinG heart pierced with a sky-biue
dart and the third and most catchy Is
woven in imitation OF a watch face. on
which the hours are indicated by black
numbers.