Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1879 — Foot Gear. [ARTICLE]

Foot Gear.

The very newest stockings are in solid colors, in silk or lisle thread, ribbed and open worked. The ribs form stripes that run up and down to the ankle, and over the instep, and above the ankle they are laid across, which rounds the lower part of the leg as it rises above the boot. The colors are pink, blue, garnet, tinted white, and some colored red. A straw-colored silk stocking is handsomely embroidered in brown; midway between the top and the instep is a band of brown; at the top is lace edging. Another style has the instep and heel in dark red, and the other part of the foot, as well as the top of the stocking is gray. A beautiful cream-colored silk

stocking has an embroidery represnting wheat on the sides and instep—this is in extremely bright blue silk. A singular pair of white stockings has three bands of open work, resembling lace, on the instep, three half way up the leg, and a very broad stripe of the same at the top of the stocking, which is finished with lace. Another very elegant stocking is checked with white and black, like an ivory domino. A pair of lisle thread stockings is embroidered in green, with tall grass and small flowers on the instep and sides. A new whim in stocking is to wear them in different shades of color, to match the dress. If the costume is pink and white, the stockings will be delicately ribbed-one pink, the other white; or in the same gray and white, blue and white will be put together. The idea was taken from an actress in Vienna, who exhibited in the last act of "Fatinitza ”