PMarione
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 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:28 pm Post subject: Nelson in tights? |
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This important piece of info from another forum:
| Quote: | Garters were used to keep up stockings. I don't know what the garters were made of since elastic hadn't been invented.
Stockings were knitted in 'stocking stitch' (that is, alternate knit and purl rows) but the last few rows at the top were knitted in plain knit stitch, still known in English as 'garter stitch'. This helped to keep the stocking from slipping underneath the garter.
Breeches were tapered or gathered into a band at the knee and had buckles or buttons as fasteners. The garters and stocking tops were concealed under this.
Nelson's stockings in the NMM look long enough to reach to mid thigh.
I'm sure I have read somewhere, and would be grateful for the reference, that Nelson had difficulty keeping his stockings up - maybe because his legs were thin! |
I wondered for years.
Now you know!
At your knitting needles! 
And here are two important archeological discoveries that can highlight his relation with EH:
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