HAS
MEN started this stocking story
by fashion editor
early
1935
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1900
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1938
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In Mr. C. Willett Cunnington's
Shopping Points
Buy three pairs of silk stockings at a time, of the same shade and quality. This proves economical. Stockings can be interchangeit as they ladder.
Pay the extra if you can, remem- bering that two good pairs of stuck- ings will outlive three cheaper paira. This makes for real economy,
Never buy stockings too small, as this source of vanity is extremely costly, and the stockings almost im- mediately ladder.
Stockings, whenever possible, should be bought with an eye to the occasion on which they are to be used. For instance, two-thread for evening; three thread for afternoon, and four-thread for all day long. For hard, country wear, sir, seven and eight-thread stockings aré, quail. able to-day in all good-class shops at cheap prices.
The term "fully fashioned" is worth learning about. It means that the stockings are made on special machinery so that they will always retain a good shape, which prevents wrinkling at the ankles.
Never forget to rinse stockings before through luke warm water wearing. This helps the elasticity and also the wear of the stockings,
Always wash your stockings cach night, but if by any chance you have to wear them two days, change over the left stocking to the right foot the second day. This will prevent rub in the same place.
When you wash your stockings, do so always in warm (not hat) sompy water. Melted flakes, of course, are best for making the water soapy.
Be very careful to follow the wash-
ing instructions given on good stock- ings; be particularly careful nover to rub soap into the stockings, as iftis has a deleterious effect on the Ane silken Abres.
TAS it ever occurred to gentlemen of the sixteenth century blue, white--but they were always Openwork lace effects up the front
who had their linen stockings cut thick.
or at the sides were another concell you, girls of to-day, on the blas in order to make them TN the nineteenth century their of this period. Some stockings were how lucky you are to have more was, it is said, a lacing-up at and the 30's and the 70's were pro- cloth. shapely; and the origin of
character began to change, gossamer fine and others thick such elegant, sheer silk the ankle, which was another device bably the most glamorous stocking stockings? And, moreover, used to insure slim-fitting and good periods. Silk and collon of extreme fascinating book on English Women's fineness, sometimes plalu and some- Clothing in the Nineteenth Century at a cost of but a few shill- Shakespeare's Malvolio was proud tintes docked, made the stockings of he tells us that silk stockings were ings the pair.
of his yellow stockings which he the belles of those days. Yound elaborately embroidered up the front tells Us Olivia commended: Ever since Queen Elizabeth Samuel Pepys had sills stockings of girls, however, usually wore white, in the '90's, and that there had a pair of black knit silk which he was mighty proud.
It seemed to be a matter for com- others of ribbed cashmere, and he quotes, "but however shapely the stockings "which pleased her Men wore long stockings in those ment when coloured stockings were att
worn In the evening, days, but women always had the bad taste or that the ad indicated heb or elegant the stocking, they frequent cause of laddering is sus so well that she would never shorter
the rather fast scl.
are better any cloth hose after knee; so you see the attempt to in- "Sketches by Boz," recounting the right up to a few years ago, in spite suspender ladder protection. It is
this wards" these coverings for the troduce
this storter Jength for lower limb have found a special women place in history.
wear
SILK
ones gartered below
ladly moved in
Dickens,
in Add
"
were
Investigation shows that the most
pender strain. There are many pood prevailed really stockings on the market to-day, with
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ball at Senor Billsmethi's Dancing of the exquisite the black sprigged wore a hudder protection. It is Summer Clothes a few years ago was only Academy, at which Mr. Augustus sue on the line which
a harking back to the sixteenth and Cooper began and ended his social
seventeenth centuries.
ine stockings in preservation
ILK stockings were a standard PROBABLY the earliest femin-
of circumstance; sumelimes Kuide to social category according to-day are those on the effigy of the
to their colour and the flamboyancy Duchess of Richmond in Westminster
cent the
company. Such
of about 1900.
was a these,
career, tells us: In short, nothing A typical after the war stocking could exceed the arrangements ex is seen in the next model on the line, Such pink slik stockings! Such art- of thick black stik, which shows the
were rings that those days; flesh and belge and ton or sunburn shades were news in the
fleinl flowers!"
A very elaborate example of
Is
all too common in
revival dating back to the earliest
of the embroidery. And some even Abbey (1702). This lady has stocking of this period
far as to say that they played green silk pair and a pale blue wool
second 1920's. the open mesh stocking next big part in the emancipation of pair of the shape of those of the from the left in the sketch. This is was an innovation of 1932, and the women, for like many of women's early eighteenth century on our une in the collection at the Victoria big news a few years later was the fashion fancles they were first the clothes line.
and Albert Museum, and in of thick pride and joy of men. With the The first function of stockings was pale blue silk, with immensely wide below-the-knee stocking, which, as shortening of skirts stockings grew undoubtedly to give warmth later clocks at the sides in white em I've already mentioned, was really a more and more important. Or was their funcilon was, as well, to con-
in pale gold and rose silk stocking days. broidered it the increasing interest in unkles ceal the leg, and very thoroughly colour. that had It effect upon skirts?
Day stockings were usually black, they did this job. They might be of white or grey, and of cotton, lisle
LAST comes an up-to-the- Anyway we owe something to the almost any colour-vose, green, grey, thread or silk.
moment Twl-Twist stockinų: so sheer and lovely that it lends per- Queen Victoria's wedding stock- fection to the skin, for the function ings, on view at the London Museum of stockings to-day is not to conceal are in fine but not transparent while the limb but to beautify it. This is silk, with plain white silk embroider made by the great organisation of ed clocks, and her initials surmount Wolsey, which supplies hosiery ed by the crown in openwork at the
the Royal Household, top.
Why These Cliques
Clubs? at Tennis
to
HAY DIET HINTS
We think that perhaps we eat too much; what foods should we clint- nate?
It is seldom advisable to start any reforms in the diet by drastic re- duction in quantity unless o complete fast and rest fs possible and practical. Try eating less of the eggs, fish, starches and sugars and concentrated foods such i13 meat, replace them with a similar quantity of fruit and vegetables.
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After two or three weeks cut out some of the meat and bread,
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* A two-thread evening stocking of YOLOURED stockings and Anest
gauge is so fine that in the dis- the body?
What causes an excess of acid in some with brightly coloured tance it is difficult to detect the circular stripes had
Too much neid-forming food is the great vogue stocking on the leg at alll Three first cause and the partaking of too T is a grim reflection upon the average standard of manners at about the 60's. Third on the line thread for afternoon and four-thread much of the concentrated foods such IT
lawn tennis clubs that a member, congratulated upon the you see a stocking of the period from for utility in the order of things tő- friendly spirit prevalent at her club, answered yes, she thought ringed round in rosé, blue, and
the Victoria and Alberta green The fascination of these modern the alkaline properties
is meat, eggs, fish and bread. The green
use of processed foods from which it was unique!
shot with gold.
Plaid'
stockings stockings may
huve been And even at this particular club, the friendliness is very much ou were another day-time vogue.
perhaps best be taken away. Wrong combinations of the surface. In a few weeks' time the new member learns that Miss A.
Women spend food and the retention of waste food Also ut
pink silk
commend for a cold? by nature.
What treatment does Dr. Hay re-
As a cold in the body's way of in its work. A cold is an accumula- cleaning house it should be helped
tion of poisons which the body has not had the resistance to throw off. This suggests that the state of 80 per sent, alkalinity and 20 per cent, acid has not been maintained. The treat- ment should therefore be to build up that state by eating only alkaline- forming foods. Plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. Oranges, grape- fruit, grapes, lemons and pussian- fruit are ideal.
judged in money. is much too good to play with any but a chosen four, that everyone has rich this museum. I saw the about £30,000,000 annually on slik in the body longer than it is intended a headache, or has to go home early, or would much rather sit out this about the 70's,
stockings, dated stockings. The British hosiery in- ornamented one when Miss B. wants to make up sel, because she is a beginner, three rows of black lace insertion up dustry in the country, and employs with dustry is the third largest textile in- ardently keen, but with no back-hand at all. Love of course accounts the front from the Instep to above well over a hundred thousand people for the desperate subterfuges of young Mr. C. whose beloved always the ankle; and there are too, some to make about 10,000,000 dozen pairs seems to be playing in a mixed double which finishes half way through white silk embroidered up the sides of artificial and real silk stockings Bis own set, so that he can never catch up with her. Then there is in silver. Mr. D., who in his own estimation is so much the best player that he cannot bear to be beaten, refuses to call the score or pick up balls for his partner, and generally behaves like a small boy working up for a spanking. And finally there are the Misses E. and F.. pretty, slim, and Immaculately dressed in shorts, who only play in mixed doubles and regard
the rest of their sex as something! definitely obstructive.
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THIS, however, is but a mild manifestation of the elique spirit that reigns in two big tennis clubs I know, at one of which is possible for a member to the whole of an afternoon and evening without getting a
game, unless he or she is accompanied by a personal friend, and the other where sels ure only made up between players who know each other socially outside the club, who have called on each other, and therefore presumably ascer- talned that it is all right to know them."
WOMAN said to me ፓር cently that her reason for not joining a tennis club was that she did not wont to know the mem- bers outside the club and that one had to play. often will people whom one heartily disliked. But does one refuse to ro to a swimming pool because the other swimmers there have hot been to lea with one, and is not the main function of a tennis club to play tennis, not to select new friends?
Personally, I should not mind if I never saw the members of my tennis club In private life. I have no desire to probe into their historics, But It is,
is, all the same, perfcelly pos- sible to be very good friends and to enjoy railling good tennis in the club with them.
Men, I am afraid to say, are just
us prone to the clique spirit #3
Materials
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ERE is a list of points from the Paris designers which may help you in planning your wardrobe
for the coming months: jackets of suits are very much longer; neckilnes for
day are high and usually .
ed with 교
collar band or there are cuff bands on dresses but no cuffs; the waist is gener- ally lower and most day dresses have a slim Une; shoulders are hardly padded at all in dresses or suits; evening dresses are either pencil-slim or have a billowing crinoline silhouette; formal evening dresses are very low cut, and most of them have no shoulder straps.
Materials are rich-looking, alipper
satins, moires, ruches, and a good deal of face and tulle for evening. As for colours, black is as popular as there is a great deal of every kind of red, from sealing wax to petunia, and also a lovely amoke-blue shade.
Instead Of Moth Balls
every year.
When Sealing Bottles
TH
THE method of sealing with fat the tops of bottles containing fruit may be old-fashioned but I Grilled is very difficult to find a more sails-Round most factory one.
allowed?
*
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sausages On
appetising;
pineapple are they
The fruit should be "bottled" in the usual manner, the tops of the frankfurter variety of sausages the If you use fresh pineapple and the bottles being left open during the mixture is quite permissible on the process, and the fruit covered with Hay Diet. Brush the sausages with the liquor.
butter instead of sprinkling them
Immediately the fruit is ready for with sugar as some recipes suggest. covering two or three tablespoonfuls of melted fat should be poured on the top.
The fat is prepared thus: Shred mutton suct finely, place in clean
tin in a hot oven. Let it come to
QUICK CONVALESCENCE AFTER FEVERS
Doctors will tell you that once your
the boll and then leave for five min- | temperature falls it's all-importan! utes. When the bottles have been to rebuild your wasted nerve and sealed they should be left for 24 muscle tissues, hours undisturbed,
Savoury
MUSHROOMS on toast may not, by any means, be a new dish, but perhaps the following is a new method of serving them.
under them.
After the fever has gone, when the stomach is too weak to digest ordinary foods, a nourishing and appetising food drink ls most essen-. ilal and beneficial,
In Horlicks doctors have found a liquid food that not only can be
easily digested, but also stimulates your faded appetite und gives your it needs. Iforilcks helps you to put exhausted body all the nourishment
un weight, re-establish your strength
In these difficult times of anxiety
women, as can be seen when tourna-TF you do not like the odour at the stead of the more usual hot one. Horlicks to-day.
It is, by the way, a cold dish in-and regala your full vitality. Get Iments are being arranged and A
more usual anti-moth prepora- The mushrooms should be cooked tremendous amount of shuffling goes tions then you may prefer to try in a very slow oven, in a covered on over partners.
more modern preparation. Good players seem all too upt to
It is packed in a little cylindrical reproof dish with a little butter and worry, the task of carrying on forget that somebody could once container and has a ribbon attach-
and doing work which must be done be bothered to play with
is a doubly dimeult one which must themed to the top, from which it is sus- when they were
learning,
tend to exhaust one's nervous energy. though pended from a coat hanger, They will not return the compli-
perfume
Horlicks builds up strength, vitality Playing always with the same group cedar and lavender, but actually it
and prevents that Datlessness and Mix with rather thick cream and tiredness caused by constant nervous of people spoils one's game for more. has very strong moth-killing pro- spread thickly over pieces of cold strain. H. M. Hodges. 406-488, Axia
- Evelyn Taylor perties.
buttored loani, cut into foncy aliapes. Life Building, Hongkong.
A pleasant "clean"
They should also be seasoned well with salt and pepper. When done,
mey for fear of spoiling their game; emanates from it, remialacen! allow to get cold and chop very fine.
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