[h-cost] re:knit stockings (long)

2006-01-14 Thread Carol Kocian
Hi Kelly, I never said they were the most common, I said they were the best available option; documented period technique using period appropriate fibers. Ok, that's different, then. What dating criteria have you been using in your examinations? As you previously stated this was not a

[h-cost] re:knit stockings (long)

2006-01-13 Thread KELLY
Carol wrote: >Ok, I'm convinced the cut-from-yardgoods stockings existed. >Come to think of it, there is a stocking I looked at from around 1880 >that fit the category - one of the fancy knit fabrics that probably >could not have been done any other way. > However, I thought you said t