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Stocking

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Pair of stockings for an adult woman in silk, in a pale champagne pink. The silk is machine knit with a ribbed pattern, with a satin stitches every other row resulting in a very lustrous surface. Seamed down back of stocking, with top edges left roughly cut. Accompanied by a paper note reach reads: "Silk stockings of grandmother Aracher (Mary Ann Low [sic] mother of M. A. Lord)."

2024.07.003a-c

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Historic Costume

Undergarment

Stockings

Female

Silk

1830

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