Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… by women of all classes. This short article proposes to see tie-on pockets and their contents as means to explore female mobility and sociability in the long eighteenth century. Eighteenth-century pockets served as containers for … to their owner, pockets were also choice repositories for small personal items. As such they fostered specific modes of female sociability, in particular through the exchange of handmade mementos for the pocket, whilst pockets themselves, … could sometimes materialise bonds between female friends and kin. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Keywords Dress Fashion Friendship Gaming Women When a lady was attacked in London in 1754, her pockets contained ‘among other things’: ‘a small …
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