Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1881 — Fashions in Stockiness and Shoes. [ARTICLE]

Fashions in Stockiness and Shoes.

keWToraßun; fictlbroidCrers for shoes the Which led an inquirer up si long flight of Stitirg in a high building, through the rooffl that w£& filled wiln shop, to the offlee where srt a oejD&Ahfient-faetd genlh man.who said; * fcfrmes afe bb'w i-iiiftmldered for ladies. We have orders for a Jfn£ of cloth top shots embroidered in cbehille and fer tow shoes embroidered at the instep. The embroidered stockings have became so - popular that.how embroidery is wanted on the shoes too. We b dye aii Srtlst sho makes the patterns, and we eipebt ttf turd otit so the charming bite of art eihoroldtiy ill shoes for next Hummer's Wear. W 6 had an order recently for embroidered white slippers f»r a bride to m&tch a pair of white silk stockings with Chantilly lace let in from the instep, and another pain of white silk embroidered with floss silk, the design t-eing pale blue forget-me note and pink roses. Black stockings arc nowsuperseded by embroidered stockings. We follow the fashion instbekings* and shoes and stockings will next year be sold to match. Open work is getting popular. Black silk stockings afe made with a plain stripe, and there aro .open work stripes with white feet which show through openwork In the shoes. There are now 1,200. pew .designs in silk stockings, and we have to make shoes to suit the most popular styles. We make the tops of doth or leather to match the odor of the Stocking embroidery, so that at a glance the lady seems to bsferon Newport slippers with embroidered stockings. It Will add about $2 to a pair of shoes to embroidbroder them, but we can make them to cost SSO a pair. Soma of our uptown dames don’t seem to mind what it costs to beautify their feet.”