Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 20 Résumé From the mid-seventeenth century until the late nineteenth century, women used tie-on pockets to carry and keep their possessions at hand. Independent from the rest of their clothing, these 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 … materialise bonds between female friends and kin. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Mots-clés Dress Fashion Friendship Gaming Women When a lady was attacked in London in 1754, her pockets contained ‘among other things’: ‘a small round …
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