Relatively little is known about this pair of men’s silk stockings.  The donor of the stockings, Richard Greenleaf, identified them as being French and dating from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.  One thing that we do know about them is that they were knitted on a machine; although we tend to associate the...

Relatively little is known about this pair of men’s silk stockings.  The donor of the stockings, Richard Greenleaf, identified them as being French and dating from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.  But the most striking thing about the stockings is their decoration. By the early eighteenth century, men of all social classes wore...