The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-06
SOCKS FOR LADIES
THE LATEST FAD
Among the Four Hundred OF NE"
York's Misunderstanding
Scenes at Crossings.

New York.-"Half hose for ladles
read large illuminated signs IN the
windows of several shops IN fllln
avenue. and announce TAD Tor veal
ing socks with regular mems carriers
which is actually upon New YORK So
ciety. High society and real sOclety
not the stage, where such fantasCiC
crazes usually have their birth ana
die, has taken 1t up. Women "ho
would scOrn the peek-a- boo waist anu
light skirts have been seen wearing
both socks and the carriers that go
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 VINO
wear the socks say they do it simply
to be cool not because it is a daring
and novel fashion.
Startling Scenes at Crossings.
But. whatever its cause, the vision
of an apparently sedate young woman
who. upon lifting her skirts to enter
cab, or at a muddy crossing, re-
veals a pair of embroidered socks
and an inch of pink flesh encircled by
a white or black silk garter is GER
tainly calculated to excite comment.
When a Fifth Avenue hOsler was
asked if women really are wearing
socks, he said emphatically: Yes,
| indeed. They are a fad which reached
New York from Paris late last year
and some women took it up at once,
! but it did not become general in So
ciety until within the last two months.
! In the last week We received orders
/ for WOmen's socks every day from
summer resorts. | sent half-dOzen
/ pairs of embroidered silk ones yesr
| terday to a Chicago woman whose
name is equally we'll known IN the
west ana New York. These women S
socks are made just the same as the
mems. only they are eighteen inches
! long, instead Of the regulation four
teen inches, and have ribbed tops,
! Just half the width of the mems. A
great many women. however, do not
buy those made specially for women.
They prefer to purchase the regular
masculine socks, just fourteen inches
/! long"
Seminary Girls Adopt Fad.
Continuing, the dealer said: 1.-TWO
weeks ago a young girl who attends
a Fifth Avenue seminary stopped be-
fore the window to admire pair OF
wOmen's half hose, embroidered IN
white. After hesitating outside for
perhaps five minutes, she came in and
bought them The following Satur-
day half a dozen Of her girl friends
from the seminary came in and ask
ed for some socks just like those
she had bought. We equipped them
not only with a complete assortment
of black and white and cOlored socks,
but with mems carriers to match, and
they went away delighted.
| These garterS are made OF viii e
or black silk elastic and have the
usual clasp coming down in front OF
f! the leg to catch the top Of the sock.
! We put a little white satin bow on
| them to make them look little pref
tier, but otherwise they were just the
| ordinary mans garter. | filled an out
| Of-tOwn order last week for a dozen
pairs of boys ~ sizes. They went
to we'll known society girl at Tux
| edo These socks are made in silk
and usle and cotton in plain black
and whites, hand embroidered with
lace set in
We don't sell them to the stage
people | can't recOllect a single order
from a person in the theatrical pro
fessiOn. They are to meet a demand
from our regular customers, both in
New York and throughout the cOun-
try"