The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-10-07
WOMEN WEAR SOCKS
Latest Fad from Paris Captures
New York Society.
Pfontaent Fifth Avenue Merchant
Tells Of the New Fsshion-Nas.
oallne Carriers Also Adopted
BY Maids and MatFOns.


"Half hose for ladies" read large IL
Illuminated signs In the windows Of
several shops In Fifth avenue, New
York, and announce . fad for wearing
socks with regular mems garters
which 10 actually upon New York So
ciety. High society and real society.
not the stage, where such fantastic
crazes usually have their birth and
die. has taken 1t up. Women who
would scorn the peek-a-boo waist have
been seen wearing both socks and the
garters that 60 with them.
The shops are full of dainty con-
ceits, some fresh from Paris. where
the craze originated. and some of ma
tive manufacture. The women who
wear the socks say they do it simply
to he cool. not because it II daring
and novel fashion. But. whatever the
cause, the vision of an apparently Sc
date young woman, who, upon lift
ing her skirts to enter a cab or at q
muddy crossing reveals pair of en-
broidered socks and an inch of pink
flesh encircled by q white or black silk
garter, is certainly calculated to excite
comment.
When Fifth avenue hosier was
asked II women really are wearing
socks, he said emphatically: Eyes. in
deed. They are fad which reached
New York from Paris late last year,
and some women took 1t up at once.
but 1t did not become general in So
ciety until within the last few months.
The other week we received orders
for women's socks every day from
summer resorts. have sent half q
dozen pairs of embroidered silk ones
to a Chicago woman whose name is
equally we'll known in the west and
New York. These women's socks are
made just the same as the mems, only
they are Is inches long, instead of the
regulation IA inches, and have ribbed
tops, Just half the width OF the men s.
A great many women, however, do not
buy those made specially for women.
The prefer to purchase the regular
masculine socks. just II inches long,
Continuing. the dealer said: "Some
weeks ago young girl who attends q
Fifth avenue seminary stopped before
the window to admire a pair OF
women's half hose, embroidered In
white After hesitating outside fol
perhaps five minutes. she came in and
bought them. The following Satur.
day half dozen Of her girl friends
from the seminary came in and asked
for some socks just like those she had
bought. We equipped them not only
with complete assortment of black
and white and colored socks but with
mems garters to match, and they wen,
away delighted.
These garters are made of white o,
black silk elastic and have the usua
clasp coming down in front of the lei
to catch the top of the sock. We pu
q little white satin bow ON them tt
make them look little prettier. bu
otherwise they were just the ordinsr,
mans garter. recently filled an GU
of town order for . dozen pairs O
boys ~ sizes. They went to vel
known society girl at Tuxedo. Thes,
socks are made in silk and Isle ant
cotton in plain black ana whites, hant
embroidered. with lsce net in.
1--WE don't sell Thorn to- the stag,
people. don't recollect q single orde
from q person In the theatrical pro
fession. They are to meet deman,
from our regular customers, both /,
New York and throughout the coun
try"