stockings


stockings

Summary

Two pairs alike. Very pale pink silk machine knitted in stocking stitch, heels and toes thicker; white silk ribbon at top edge. Tops of double thickness; seam down CB; shaped for leg, toe, heel, seam each side of foot; instep and lower part of leg below calf embroidered with spots in pale pink silk, zigzag border at top of spots; "40" worked in openwork below tops.


Object Name

stockings

Date Created

1830-1840

Dimensions

foot: 25.4cm
length: 76.2cm

accession number

1947.3355/2

Collection Group

costume
womenswear

Medium

Legal

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