OUR STOCKINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19275, 12 September 1924, Page 10

OUR STOCKINGS.

As skirts grow shorter and shorter, silk stockings become more and ■ more important —and at the same time thinner and thinner! They have never been so fine and transparent, and this quality is now worn for day-time, occasions, and not only for evening dress. The most popuular colour is still a deep, warm, "sunburn" shade of biege, and this is worn even with white shoes, for white stockings are ever hardly ever seen now. You can easily give this tone to stockings that are faded, or too light, by dyeing them at home with a mixture of salmon pink and brown dye—half a packet of eacn produces a very good shade, and will dye five or six pairs. The very bright puce-pink colour, which made a bid for popularity this spring, has quite failed to become fashionable —fortunately, for it is an extremely ugly shade, and" only gives an impression of badlyscalded legs. It is always best to wash one's stockings at home if possible, with either Castile or ordinary yellow soup. It is important not to use soap or washing powder containing soda, as this destroys their colour and makes them streaky. This is espeeinllv so in the case of French stockings, which seem to need greater care than others. If soap containing soda must be used, bad results may be avoided by rinsing it cut immediately, but even a few moments' delay will give the soda time to act on (he colour. Dry in (he air, not by a fire. The stockings can be pressed with a warm iron if desired, but are really better without ironing at all, as heat has a detrimental effect on the silk. It is most, important to put en stockings properly, keeping the back seam dead in the centre and perfectly straight, and a girl I know has given mo a tip which is a great help in this respect. Having made sure just where the suspenders should be fastened to keep the stockings exactly straight, she has marked these places with little crosses in coloured cotton, so that liowever hastily she dresses she can make no mistake. She tells me it saves her a minute or two everv time she i.< dressing, and we all know how vita] two minutes'can be!—M. D., in the Daily Chronicle.