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Woman's Stockings1700-1725

Not on view
Crimson velvet stocking with gold and silver metallic embroidery along the front panel, striped cuff in olive, cream, and red at the top
Textile fragment in crimson red with a vertical band of raised metallic gold embroidery, featuring stacked floral and foliate motifs with accents of blue needlework at center.
Close-up of crimson woven textile with a gold metallic embroidered feather motif, showing fine parallel thread work and textured ground fabric.
Title
Woman's Stockings
Place Made
Europe
Date Made
1700-1725
Medium
Silk knit with metallic-thread embroidery
Dimensions
Length: 22 1/4 in. (56.52 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne A. Saperstein and Michael and Ellen Michelson, with additional funding from the Costume Council, the Edgerton Foundation, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, Maureen H. Shapiro, Grace Tsao, and Lenore and Richard Wayne
Accession Number
M.2007.211.134a-b
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.
  • Blanco F., José and Mary D. Doering, eds. Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, vol. 1, Pre-Colonial Times Through the American Revolution. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016.