SILK STOCKINGS.

Shannon News, 6 March 1928, Page 1

SILK STOCKINGS.

QUESTION OE ART.

“Civis" writes to a contemporary

Another correction, and again on a question of art. Let us pass from Schubert symphonies to silk stockings; it is but a step. The other week I was sceptical about the genuineness of “synthetic silk," and doubted whether any ladies of my acquaintance wore stockings of silk underived from the silkworm. I know better now. A drapery firm, with no desire for a gratuitous advertisement, offers to sell me stockings of artificial silk, with printed directions for their use;'that they are to be washed gcnlly in warm water, no rubbing, no squeezing, no wringing out —their constitution wouldn’t stand it. A filmy thing is synthetic silk, delicate, I should say, as a spider’s web. Whether the. neat ankles and shapely calves, flesh tinted, that grace our streets and fix the eye of man, are thus ethereally

clad is doubtful. Probably not. You seldom see a stocking out of repair. Not in my time has any new fashion in womatf's dress been more -welcome than the short skirt. Extremes? —a good thing may always be pushed to ex-' tremes. Half an inch, half an inch, half an inch shorter, Same are the skirts for mother and daughter. When the wind blows, everything shows Half an inch, half an inch more than it ought er. A small matter. In the words of Lord Dewar, whoso witticisms quoted in all newspapers may owe something to his own whisky, when a girl has paid 30 shillings for her stockings'she naturally wants to show 28 shillings’ worth.