Very Misc. Clockwork stockings
Erik T. Burns
eburns at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 11:34:05 CDT 2011
http://asuitablewardrobe.dynend.com/2009/09/socks-with-clocks.html
a-and
http://www.customshirt1.com/Socks_M_Fun.html#Table 2
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Very serendipitously I have learned that many women's stockings in
> the 18th--19th Centuries had clocks on them--originally to cover seams, it seems,
> but then for decorative show..........
>
> "You, sir, are only interested in the clocks on stockings"---from a play
>
> Never caught on much in America.
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