Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… 1 1 . Public Advertiser (London), Tuesday March 12th 1754. The list of objects contained in the pocket by the unknown woman illustrates the role of pockets as carriers of fashionable portable accessories that assisted women’s engagement … luxury, instead they manifest how these personal objects could serve to cement female friendships. When hand-made by one woman and worn in close proximity to the body another, a pocket could itself be part of this female gift economy, … embroidered with wild strawberries and pansies, dated c. 1810, is in a private collection. A small pocket made by a woman named Margaret Deas offers poignant expression of the role of these gendered objects in fostering female …
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