Semi-weekly herald., 1913-12-22

The females all fill their stockings
as well
He sees he's not needed bit
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Speaking
of Christmas stockings the showing
for the holidays is enough to turn a
head-masculine as well as feminine
and often one good turn deserves an
other. There seems to be a regular
understanding that hosiery must live
up to the diaphonous texture of the
tainly going some. Yea verify our
Puritan forefathers could they but
see the gauzy, gaudy and gorgeous
covering on 1918 models would dub
them aptly limbs of satin. Such riots
of embroidery and color, such ornate
insects of lace were never seen before.
As always the thin plain black
stocking is ever and everywhere in
the best of taste, only nowadays its
thinness has positively reached the
last stages of emaciation. If you
are wearing the new cloth topped
boots your hosiery must carry out or
rather up, the color theme of the cloth
top be it tauppe, tan, gray or the more
distinctive shades that match up your
entire street costume. Of course your
hosiery and slippers must match your
evening gown and the more elabor-
ate embroidered and the more bright
ly dyed they are the more chic you
are. Only with smart gowns Of black
velvet or silk are black stockings
and slippers used for evening wear
and even then the hosiery is richly
inset with medallions or stripes of
fine lace.
There has been mighty effort on
foot to revive the plaid stocking of
yesteryear but in spite of the craze
for plaid touches in her frocks fair
woman has frowned on the Hoot Men
hosiery as well as upon the freaky
laced stockings which has met the
contempt which it deserves.
The tango as well as the slit skirt
demands that much more care and at
tention as well as expense must be
expended upon the pedal extremities
today and tonight than ever before
and apropos of the tango the laced
tango slipper or cothurn which is the
last step in chic evening footgear has
created a new Xmas gift to tax poor
| Perev's purse. For rhinestone Goth
| urne slides and buckles are among the
newest and most attractive holiday
gifts for the swain to lay at his lad
les feet.
| Time was when the correct gifts
for the lover to offer his adored one
at the merrie Yule Tide were flow
ers, fruits or bon-bons with perhaps
a hook. a lace mouchoir or box of
gloves if his ardor were intense. Now
he is expected to come through with
either a cigarette case, walking
stick or monacle. How times and
women have changed indeed.
1t is safe to hazard however that
more Of the tango slipper sets will be
presented this Xmas than any other
gift and the Christmas counters are
ashine with them ranging in designs
and materials from rhinestones set in
silveroid at $5 a set to silver and
gold platinum mountings incrusted
with semi-precious or precious stones
costing up through two into thre'
figures.
The strings of Chinese beads and
new jeweled hair combs and hairpins
wrist watches and tiny enamelet
boxes for the ubiquitous beaut,
patch are among the new fashions il
Xmas gifts while for the mere male
marvellous new walking stick which
carries in its slender insides ths
wherewithal to turn itself into 9
three legged picnic seat, a quaint ole
monks teapot and . monks hooded
lamp Of dull metal that conceal bot