Woollen Stockings

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 9

Woollen Stockings

.Woollen stockings are in certain cases much smarter than silk, and it may bo some moral help to:those- who wear them to know that they ilre approved by the best dress designers for certain sorts of clothes (states a writer to the "Manchester Guardian"). Tho difficulty about them is that they wear so much less well than do any of the thread stockings, and this difficulty does not seem to diminish. They wear, indeed, much less well than did woollen stockings twenty-fivo years ago. These were ordinary daily necessities then, and they could bo worn for-some time without being darned. Also they cost half tho price and frequently less than this. This is a defect which it should not be impossible to overcome, as also' in tho. case of woollen socks. In the latter instance it may bo noted that men's woollen socks wear much better than those provided for women. In favour of the woollen stocking:it may be" said that in colour and. variety of texture there is no .comparison ."with those of years ago. There are excellent iron-greys which look well with a black shoe —the mistake' of wearing a grey stocking with a brown shoe is one which should never: happen—and the pink-greys can be avoided. There are good moles and excellent beiges and browns. Much lies in the texture, and some of the smartest woollen stockings are flecked and are made with a mesh which looks as though it had been pricked neatly all over with a stout pin. Strange to say, these . stockings, are really warm and do not provoke chilblains. They have a neat town look and yet look well in tho country. The silk stocking is not really smart in the country^ even when fortified by a woollen sock. Now that there is a Tevulsion of feeling towards the woollen stocking its wearing quality might be studied by experts, even if it came, to mixing a certain amount of cotton with toe and heel.