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Very often lisle threads are added to the foot and garter-top to increase the durability of the stockings.
Detached from our heads, hair can be used to mend garments, to darn holes in stockings.
In one striking image, a porch is shown elaborately decorated for Christmas with tinsel, stockings, ornaments and toys.
The rooms are bedecked with handmade ornaments and shimmery garlands, and stockings are hung by the chimney with care.
It was not until the invention of the frame for knitting stockings by William Lee in the year 1589 that knitted garments came to the fore.
I found it tossed on the floor and picked it up, and I found my stockings hanging drunkenly from one of the bedposts.
She wore long black stockings and one of her shoes was missing a sole and the other had a hole near the toes.
Plett also sells other home-crafted items such as Christmas stockings and beeswax candles, and this year will offer cards and books.
The heavy petticoats, stockings and thin chemise and drawers were bad enough.
Break out the cutesy A-line skirts and minis, and, of course, killer stockings.
All hurlers must have helmets and shin pads and all players must have the proper club attire, blue shorts, blue and gold stockings.
Thus, a miller in apron and shirtsleeves would not be confused with a magistrate in frock coat, knee breeches, and silk stockings.
Last year I lost a lot of the ornaments, I just couldn't find them, as well as our monogrammed Christmas stockings.
He was a palomino with a golden coat, a white blaze, four white stockings, and a cream mane and tail.
The dress she had worn on her date was wrinkled and twisted around her body, and her stockings had huge runs in them.
And of course, it is only in the world of Miuccia that it's ok to wear stockings with sandal platforms and still look so elegant.
Like tangerines and satsumas, clementines are often a feature of Christmas stockings.
I see no evidence of a blue rinse, wrinkly brown stockings, big grey bloomers or a bus pass, if that's any help.
Boaters who have run out of electronic gizmos to stuff in Christmas stockings have a boatload of nautical books to fill the gap this year.
It's de rigueur at games in the Dominican Republic, where women in body stockings dance to recorded merengue music on top of the dugouts.
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His hose, his stockings and the lining of his cloak were blue and of the color of his shoulder knot.
He wore dark-blue knee-breeches, with stockings of undyed wool, red shirt-sleeves, and wideawake hat of grey felt.
A pair of small, high-top riding boots of soft, pliable leather, was lying beside the bunk near some pitiably thin stockings.
Tiennette snatched from the hands of Rose and Jeanne the stockings they were coveting.
She rose, took her stockings over to the stove, and hung them on the damper.
Arrived there, he removed his coat and neckcloth, his sodden boots and stockings.
The mount was a sorrel with white stockings and a splash of white on the nose.
In two hours Sir Asinus was sitting at spadille in the exceedingly undress costume of shirt, pantaloons, and silk stockings.
Captain sparling of the Assistance brought me a pair of silk stockings of a light blue, which I was much pleased with.
These duffles are cut into the form of a slipper and incase the stockings of the feet.
I received you letter and the pretty balbriggan stockings, for which I thank you very much, quite safely.
Men may surely learn how to stouten their legs, as well as to improve their stockings.
Some campers like long German stockings, which serve also for leggings, and wear thin cotton socks inside them.
Besides the breeches and anorak of light wind-cloth, he made stockings of the same material.
His brown suit, knee breeches, and silk stockings, were set off by brightly polished steel buttons and diamond buckles.
I remember so late as Mr. Canning, the minister always came down in silk stockings and pantaloons, or knee breeches.
There was also sent from Plymouth a piece of blond, a piece of quilling net, and eleven pairs of childrens stockings, for sale.
The correct dress is loose jacket, knicker corduroy breeches, stout ribbed stockings, and box-cloth leggings.
He used to wear a roquelaure, beneath which appeared a pair of thin legs encased in dirty silk stockings.
He was dressed in a gray-flannel gown and short breeches, the stockings wrinkled and distained, the feet in slippers.
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