Showing posts with label Gilded Age Women’s Stockings. Show all posts
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Friday, July 16, 2021

Stocking Clocks Approved for Mourning


As hemlines rose in the coming decades, clocks remained a decorative, if not functional feature of women’s stockings.


A Texas man was married while dying, and the fashion journals, after a lengthy discussion, have decided that although his widow must wear full mourning for thirteen days, etiquette, under the circumstances, will permit her to have clocks on her stockings. — Indianapolis Journal, 1882

 

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