The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-09-19
OLD HAIR TRUNKS AND MAHOG-
ANY DESKS

Dr.. J. W. Daniel IN Southern CHRIS
) tian Advocate. '->' -
Ii was q fad about the middle Of
the eighteenth century 70 wear gar
ters OF different colors, one red and
the other blue, or some other color
l mean the two garters making the
pair were differently colored. 1t was
purely a fad anG so far as / know
without any reason. Ladies hose
were also colored. There were I'M
ported as early as 1861 ladies
green hose" priced thirteen shillings,
about three dollars ana sixty-tive
cents in our money. The patient IA
ther with six daughters to hose sew
e,al times a year may wipe MS eye
glasses and exclaim, rs he reads,
Really, have prices declined or soar
ed?' With the fact buried in the Old
Hair Trunks for two hundred ald
fifty years will Ter him answer the
question. There we're also pink ano
yellow hose sold and worn through
cut the whole colonial p3riod. Is
there really anything new under the
sun? Queen Elizabeth wore cloth
stockings, and, Of course, the colon
lists followed for while the fashion
set by the queen. Great numbers Of
cloth hose were imported into the
colonies in their earlier history from
ireland. They were made Of felt and
doubtless worn for winter wear.
They were not costly. Diced Hose
were worn long prior to' the Revolu-
ton. They were stamped in small
checkered cubes, therefore the name;
they were popular from the begin
ming of the seventeenth century.
s'Masqueraded flose"-what could
they have been? Did they make
pretentious. show of being what they
were not? Probably so. Anyway. l
do not know what they were, my Old
Hair Trunks do not contain sample.
They seem to have been contempora-
neous with "Diced Hose" There
were also "Silk-cloaked & Chevered
hese," also on the market. Cheverel,
now obsolete, meant a soft leather
made Of the kidskin. ''Silk-cloaked"
and chevered hose may have been kid
skin covered with silk finish, or the
chevered hose may have been real
k;d-skin rendered doubly soft by the
manufacturers process. Could our
colonial progenitresses have really
worn genuine kid-skin stockings? 1t
is not improbable 'Fine Strawbrldge
knit hose and ''Yarn hose" with
Ribbed pointed chivsled w9rsted
hose" were popular in the first half
of the. eighteenth century. Probably
the word "chiveled" from tae obso-
'sese, Mora. "chivel' to shiver or trem-
Bic was applied adjectively to this
style Of hose to indicate the simmer
Of the gloss, or the changeable color
as is seen in changeable silks. "Jer-
sew knit hose and many other varie-
ties were sold to the colonists prior
to 174O. There was, therefore,
large variety evidently of foot-gear,
as we'll as head-gear, so that even the
mos. fastidious maid or nlatrcn could
easily satisfy their whims Of taste ev-
Ell in stockings.
Shoes were also Of sufficient va
riety to please the taste of modist
colonial danes and their daughters
and they We're not very cheap, but
doubtless that fact rather pleased
them; for women always love to tell
what their things cost. Beautiful
silk shoes as has been imported for
many years. Russell and Calliranco
shoes" were advertised a. fifty-two
shiliings, six pence a pair, twelve to
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