Stockings, cream cotton with red embroidered clocks, 1840s-1850s, back and front embroidery comparison

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Creator

Unknown

Date Created

1840s-1850s

Subject

Costume accessories; Worn costume accessories; Legs; Feet; Stockings

Description

1840s-1850s. Cream cotton stockings with red embroidered clocks (ornamentation extending up the calf from the ankle) on both the inside and outside and framing the gusset. The welt (top) is plain. Each stocking is knitted flat and shaped to follow the contours of the leg, reaching from the welt to the toe and joined at the back of the leg with a single seam that runs from the welt to under the heel. The heel is knitted of a piece with the main stocking and given shape by the seam. The gusset and sole are one continuous piece, which is seamed to the sides of the heel and to the edges of the stocking at both sides of the foot and across the front of the toe. Damage from wear has been darned. Machine-made. Hand-darned.

Extent

Length from welt to heel: 55.9 cm / 22 in.
Length of foot: 22.9 cm / 9 in.
Length of embroidery: 15.2 cm / 6 in.
Width of embroidery at widest: 1.4 cm / 0.56 in.

Provenance

Gift of Fred Ordway

Museum Number

397

Publisher

University of New Hampshire Library

Medium

Cotton

Contributor

Astrida Schaeffer, photographer/curator

Date Digitized

3-5-2019

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Comments

The Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection digital catalog was produced by the UNH Library Digital Collection Initiative, supported in part by a grant from the Mooseplate program and New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Additional funding provided by the E. Ruth Buxton Stephenson Memorial Fund.
Photography copyright, Astrida Schaeffer.