Summer Shades in Hosiery

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18581, 15 December 1934, Page 10

Summer Shades in Hosiery

'THE new summer shades and textures in hosiery are so attractive, and so becoming to slender ankles, that, despite the bare-legged vogue, stockings are now as important as ever in tho scheme of the season’s fashions.

“Nude” silk stockings arc among the latest phases in hosiery. .Of the sheerest silk, flesh-colored and as fine as gauze, they are designed to meet the summer fashion of bare ankles. Like the latest complexion powders,this type of stocking is seen in all the new “make-up” tints, from the fashionable bronze tan to pale rose beigo flesh-colors. Their success is due, no doubt, to their “no stocking” effect, while they bestow- an alluring skin silkiness of surface. For Everyday Wear. For everyday wear stockings of the finest mesh in silk or artificial silk are seen mainly in three sets of shades. Light, medium, and darker, with an infinite variety of tint and color tone. The lightest are the nude effects ranging between pcarly-pinks and sunbronze tans, and so cleverly is the color manipulated, so subtle aro the shades, that this type of stocking may be worn successfully w-ith practically any pastel-colored summer day frock. The same idea now applies to many of the day-time stockings as for the evening. Stockings are chosen to tone with the make-up of the whole ensemble, rather than to be worn with any particular frock. Out-of-Door Wear. When it comes to hosiery to wear with the walking suit, that is a different matter. The vogue of blue and brown, for instance, has brought with it a liking for beige-colored stockings, with a blue suit, particularly when brown shoes are worn. The summer shepherd’s plaid checks need delicate grey or flesh-colored hosiery when the check design is in blue or black and white. Thcro arc many oxcoii'mt mid-shades of bronze tan whjch do all-round service for ordinary out-of-door wear, and tone in well with most variations of this popular frock and costume color. For the black or black and white ensemble worn by the older woman there aro lovely pale greys, cool in tone, yet possessing a becoming pearliness in tint.