THE STOCKINGS OF THE PERIOD.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 437, 6 November 1875, Page 3

THE STOCKINGS OF THE PERIOD.

(Home Journal.) The Paris shops are full of the most fanciful designs in this one detail of feminine attire. They are made in cream colour, lemon colour, orange yellow, straw colour, pink, pale blue, pale green, lilac, light brown, dark brown, crimson, scarlet, purple —in short, in every shade of every colour. But the precise tint is only half the question; the designs worked upon the stockings are by far the most important part of it, as regards fashion, and these are of the most varied descriptions. One pair of stockings which excited much admiration from the passers of a well-known foot bunches of black currants, vvTcrr-tKo;r.. twigs and leaves most delicately embroidered in the coloured silks. Another example of ornamentation lay close at hand, in the form of a black silk stocking, round the leg of which a garter of pink rosebuds and leaves winding up from the ankle was exquisitely embroidered. This last fashion is very popular just now. Stockings so embroidered are, of course, enormously dear. Few women can afford to buy many such expensive articles of dress as these garland stockings; therefore, it becomes a matter of eager competition among the leaders of fashion to secure as many specimens of the latest rage as their purses will allow. The mania is instilled, and henceforth the woman of the world takes rank according to her stockings. Garlands of flowers do not hold the field alone, it must be observed. In some cases inscriptions and devices aie embroidered round the legs of the modern stockings, and rows and patterns are worked in coloured silk stars or spots. The ground, however, of all this work must, on no account, be white.