Historical Stockings

Stockings have a beginning in the Middle Ages in Europe, in the strict sense, we should call them the prototype of stockings. It was English churchman Reverend William Lee who invented the world's first knitting machine and started to make hosiery out of cotton, wool and silk.

 

The Stocking Frame

  

  Fashion in Victorian era (1837-1901) 

 

Object: Europe, silk, black, 1830s 

 
Object: French, silk, blue and yellow, 1865
 

 

Object: French, silk, orange, 1875-99

 
Object: British, wool, white, 1825-99 

 
Object: British, silk, white, 1800s

 
Object: Swiss, cotton, white, 1860

Historical Stockings in Europe  


The Parisian designer Paul Poiret emerged as the leading influence on women's fashion after 1906.
"it was," he declared, " in the name of Liberty that I proclaimed the fall of the corset and the adoption of the brassiere which, since then, has won the day."
 

 

Dress Reform in 1920s

 It's a amazing that seeing women's feet at the first time!