Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… worn by my grandmother Ann Isabel Hale 1820" (C) Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 20 Abstract From the mid-seventeenth century until the late nineteenth century, women used … were choice recipients for small, humbler tokens of friendship exchanged between friends and kin. These often-handmade gifts created other networks of sociability connecting women, whilst pockets also lent themselves to their own practices … The pocket, as the chosen repository for the handkerchief that Jane has made and marked for her friend, is integral to a gift economy characterized by reciprocation. 9 Sometimes it was the pockets themselves that were part of the currency of …
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