CARE OF SILK STOCKINGS

Shannon News, 15 October 1929, Page 4

CARE OF SILK STOCKINGS

For the first washing o€ silk stockings use a weak solution of vinegar and water; this will prevent the colour from growing pale and fading away with constant laundering. Choose a very fine si-lk mending, exactly the shade of your stockings, and run neat little criss-cross darns across the flat of the heel and underneath the ball of the foot.

Never hang stockings to dry in the sun! It is better, also to peg them by the top than by the toes. It nearly always pays to have ladders repaired by a firm, who specialise in that sort of thing, but if you do pick up ladders at home remember always to darn from bottpn to top, and iron afterwards Avitli a moderately hot iron to prevent puckers.