Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… alike, in discourses at least they were often seen as a trope for female vanity. In The Female Spectator in 1745, Eliza Haywood writes: ‘The snuffbox and smelling bottle are pretty trinkets in a lady’s pocket, and are frequently necessary … to the brain or render one more ridiculous in company than to have either of them perpetually in one’s hand.’ 5 5 . Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator (London, 1745), vol. II, p. 85. Such portrayal of the nifty portable contraptions …
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