I'm working on a project that involves constructing some mid-17th-
century stockings, and my own expertise (such as it is) is really
only with earlier centuries.
So far, the results I seem to be getting suggest that either (1)
these stockings are *supposed* to be loose around the ankle and
instep rather than closely fitted, or (2) the instructions were
written by someone who really didn't know what he was doing!
Both are possible, of course, but since I haven't studied 17th
century fashions at all, I don't have information that would enable
me to tell. Insights from people more familiar with this era would be
very helpful -- backup evidence even more so ;)
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O Chris Laning <clan...@igc.org> - Davis, California
+ http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com
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