Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… Image ‘Pair of cotton pockets’, c. 1820, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. 2009.300.3472. "Pocket belonging and 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 Résumé From the mid-seventeenth century until the late nineteenth century, women … often capacious pockets were tied around the waist and worn under the petticoat 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 …
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