"A Pair of Silk Stockings" illustrates her ability to draw women characters so that they are recognizable but also more than stereotypes. In 1894, after Chopin had published the popular Bayou Folk, her first collection of short fiction, her themes began to change subtly. She was successful so long as her stories were the expected local color, exotic accounts of life in the Creole culture of the south. Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett, and from translating stories by Guy de Maupassant, she was able to support herself and her six children by publishing stories in leading magazines. Drawing on what she had learned from wide reading, particularly of Mary E. Born in 1851 in Saint Louis but a resident of Louisiana after her marriage, Kate Chopin began writing after her husband's death in 1882.
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