Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-04-11
OUR FASHION LETTER
BIZ Margaret Mdson.

NEW YORK, April 11.-This is the
open season for hOsiery-in fact it is
wide open. Your newest stockings, mi
lady, are of black silk fish net. Isn't
that catchy? Of course these are worn
over other plain silk hose of a color to
match your gown. If said gown happens
to be pale pink, however the net result
will be-well at least startling. Figur-
atively speaking, plain black stockings
seem to be on their last legs. The riot
of color has reached its extremity and
the slashed skirts are revealing f~leeting
flashes of vivid hued symmetry.
All the shops are Offering as special
inducements hosiery dyed to match the
most subtle and elusive shades of your
frOcks. TwO toned stockings of shot
silk are particularly attractive, the ia
vOrite color combinations being blue and
green, cerise and purple and green and
gold. Exquisite evening stockings in deli
cate shades and bridal white show lovely
insets of Chantilly lace over the instep
and white stockings with insects of
black Chantilly are very striking. In
the more elaborate ones the insects extend
half way to the knee.
-AllOver-lace stockings and even the
old reliable drOp-stitch ones are with us
again and clicked hose are general favor
ties for more conservative wear. It's a
poor stocking indeed these days that
hasn't a clock or two on it and the less
apt they are to run the better.
Hickory, DickOry, Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock!
Now wouldn't it be shocking
If the clock were on yOur stocking?
A Fifth avenue hosiery shop is actual
ly showing a clicked novelty stocking
with an embroidered mouse on the in
step. Needless to say this rodent hosiery
will not attain any great popularity
among average members Of the fair sex.
Lovely woman may wear rats in her hair
but she spurns them on her foot. How
ever other embroidered fauna are not
taboo and gay spangled butterflies,
snakes and birds may nestle on your in
step.
And now this is where the shoe pinches
your bank account. Your feet must
be the mark of many colors this season
and the sartOrial road of fashion will be
hard to travel if you are not well shOd.
TO be absolutely well groomed your
shoes and stockings must match your
gown and the shoe shop windows bloom
i'm a splash of color like a flower bed of
lady slippers.
All the low shoes are broken out with
buckles like a spring rash. These are
buckles of cut steel. gun metal, chased
silver, brilliants and leather. Buckles
OblOng, square, round, oval or triangular
to suit your whimsey. Positively it's a
bare boot that boasts no ~buckle-usually
an undresscd kid. The buckles of cut
jet and rhinestOnes are confined prac-
tcally to the evening slippers but the
pretty colonial pumps of gun metal kid,
patent leather or satin for afternoon
wear sport silver and cut steel buckles
with perfect propriety.
In high boots the buttoned patent
feathers with cOlored kid uppers are
gaining In favor and are very smart with
tailor mades, the boot tops matching
your suiting.
There is a new heel come to town
which will try hard to stamp the Cuban
out of favor. 1t is a short squat version
of the French heel and not at all arts
tic or graceful. AS if in a compensation,
Fashion has decreed that for evening
you must be decidedly well heeled. The
high French heels of YOU dress slippers
must be studded with brilliants or
banded with gold. Even for afternoon
many of the ultra smart patent leather
cOlOnials are Haunting heels of scarlet.
French women are striving to tOtter
around on five inch heels but you will
be far smarter in more ways than one
If you are content to do your fashionable
promenade on three inches of heel at the
most.
To carry out the quaint old-fashioncd
effect of the fichu, pannier, short waist,
poke bonnet, ct al, boOtmakers are show
ing ribbons on the satin SLIPPERS that lace
around the ankle. This mixing up of
Empire lacings with Louis Quinze heels
is as fetching sartOrially as it is mac