STOCKING FASHIONS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 69, 14 December 1935, Page 23

STOCKING FASHIONS

These are the days, when summer dresses are being chosen, to exercise the same care in choosing the correct stockings. Ifor various reasons the nostocking vogue is not likely to find much favour with the well-dressed woman, the chief drawback being that the human leg is not always as nice to look at in real life as when it is painted on canvas by an artist. Town shoes on a bare foot never look appropriate, but a well-chosen stocking enhances a pretty frock. Dull tones remain, to the pleasure of those whose ankles are not so slender as could be wished, but light tans r rv f nr s f* Only ten more shopping days till Christmas! “Coming events cast their shadows before them,” ’tis true, and the Christmas shadows are gay. They take the shape of happy crowds in the shops, and Christmas trees laden with good things. Even pots and pans, dress-ing-gowns, cleaning requisites, and the most ordinary, everyday necessities become surrounded with glamour when they arc tied up with ribbons awl handed down from a fairy tree with “love and best wishes.” ar r ABT -r rxr r tar s jar r jar r x rar and flesh colours come under various pleasing appellations: Thus Banff is a honey-beige shade, and Richelieu a sun-tan. Prelude is a light .flesh shade, and Tangier is slightly deeper, verging on fawn. A delicate blue-grey shade is called glacier. - *- One leading firm of stocking manufacturers has perfected a process to ensure an even dye with an entire absence of the streaks and bars which sometimes appear in thin hosiery. This desirable effect is achieved by the use of three threads in the weaving, so that while the stocking is as sheer as the most fastidious shopper could wish the colour is evenly distributed to produce the desired filmy covering which provides just the right finish to the. summer toilette.