Associate Professor
Université Paris Cité
Research expertise
Material culture especially textile and dress (17th-19th century); global history; environmental history.
Contributions
Objects
From the mid-seventeenth century until the late nineteenth century, women used tie-on pockets to carry and keep their possessions at hand. Independent from the rest of their clothing, these often capacious pockets were tied around the waist and worn under the petticoat by women of all classes.