13. Hosiery: From the Mayflower to the Bedroom Floor

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13. Hosiery: From the Mayflower to the Bedroom Floor

1. Nan H. Mutnick, “Snapshot: Hosiery,” in Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, vol. 3, The United States and Canada.

2. Ibid.

3. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear Through the Ages, ed. Sarah Hermsen, vol. 5 (Detroit: UXL, 2004), 927.

4. James Laver, Costume and Fashion: A Concise History (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002), 58.

5. Anne L. Macdonald, No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting (New York: Ballantine Books, 1988), 3.

6. American Red Cross. The War-Time Manual: Describing the Organization, History, Works and Reliefs of the American Red Cross Society (Chicago: Service Publishers, 1917), 66.

7. Nan H. Mutnick, “Snapshot: Hosiery.”

8. http://ask.metafilter.com/15115/What-color-socks-should-I-wear-with-brown-shoes-and-blue-jeans.