Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… 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 of sociability among … periods spent together by two female friends which the gift of the pocket memorializes. 11 The female sociable networks evidenced in such pockets had little to do with fashionability or luxury, instead they manifest how these … worn in close proximity to the body another, a pocket could itself be part of this female gift economy, nurturing female networks of sociability. 9 . On gift giving and reciprocation in the early-modern period, see Natalie Zemon Davis, The …
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