STOCKINGS CALL FOR CARE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1938, Page 10

STOCKINGS CALL FOR CARE

FASHIONS FOR THE SUMMER. ATTRACTIVE NEW SHADES. A year or two ago any woman could buy a bottle of some form of liquid powder under various fascinating names, and then go barelegged throughout the summer. Now she must choose her stockings with as much care as ihe rest of her clothes, for there are different colours and weaves for every occasion. Gone are the shades of fiery red which made their wearers look as Though they had just emerged from a mustard bath; fashion is cooling down, and the new golden-tan and warm beige shades are less virulent and far more becoming. They also have the advantage of toning better with other colours. For really hard wegr the slightly “open-work” stockings known as London Mesh are both serviceable and attractive. They dispel the nightmare of a last-minute ladder which has come true too often with most women. For Country Wear.

Stockings of the same type of weave, though rather coarser and stronger, are called Country Mesh, and they have no equal for their purpose. They are infinitely smarter than plain silk for wearing with country clothes, and though there is no stocking made which will withstand a jagged nail or a piece of barbed wiie, these are sufficiently elastic to survive the average thorns, rough edges, and other ladder makers.

So few women have knees which are neither fat nor bony, that these comfortable “half-hose” must now regrettably be confined to the evening. Nothing looks worse than an inadequate gap between stockings and dress which with the shorter skirts would be almost inevitable. Under an evening dress, however, they are ideal, as the Lastex tops do away with the necessity for garters or unsightly suspenders, and if worn with the new lace-elastic trunks there need be nothing to mar a sheath-like line. Shadded Stockings. Another fashion designed more especially for thicker legs is the shaded stocking. These are made with flesh? coloured fronts shading to black or nigger-crown at the back. They are very effective but should be for indoor wear only. Slim Fitting Styles. Clox are rarely seen, though some of the French stockings still have them. For years it was difficult to get really slim fitting stockings which were not manufactured in France or America; the products of the English looms seemed like the hose of Shakespeare’s pantaloon, “a world too wide.” But today in England there are new looms on the American pattern and there is a steady increase in the manufacture of stockings in England.