STOCKINGS TO PROTECT THE ARMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2109, 9 June 1898, Page 3

STOCKINGS TO PROTECT THE ARMS.

This wearing of stockings to protect bare arms is fine, says a girl who has been trying it all winter, to a New York Sun reporter. I’ve never been so popular in my life as I have this season, and I lay it all to the stockings. Wouldn’t the men laugh if they knew that 1 You see it was this way ; last winter and the winter before I never dreamed that I could go out in full dress without a carriage. One night last fall a man called to take me to a reception without a carriage. l Mother going to chaperon me, and it was positively, funny, for we both had on our most sparse evening gowns. We held a consultation and figured that we would hurt this man’s feelings if- we for a cab. So :we decided to the best of it. The idea ‘came I to me to cover our arms with stockings and our necks with knit woollen shawls and to slip dark skirts over our light gowns. We did so, and went to the reception in the cable cal’. We were as warm as bugs in a rug, and had a real jolly time, and the man;who is a struggling. author, was lOdol. in. Imagine my amazement when we got in the dressing-room, which was crowded with women, arid found half of ’em with stockings on their arms. They’d come in the cars, too! That settled it with me. I saw that it was possible to go out in full dress comfortably without a Carriage, and I made my mother'tell my friends when they asked me out that I positively refused to go in a carriage; The result ?" Oh, : I’ve had more invitations to go out this winter, more escorts and- more steady beaux, as our second girl puts it/ _ - ■