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2. Christmas stocking - Wikipedia

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   A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that is hung on Saint Nicholas Day or Christmas Eve so that Saint Nicholas (or the related figures of Santa Claus and Father Christmas) can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins or other small gifts when he arrives. These small items are often referred to as stocking stuffers or ...

3. Dandy - Wikipedia

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   Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette. [34] Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–20 must have been a strange ...

4. Stocking - Wikipedia

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   Mock seam: A false seam sewn into the back of a seamless stocking. Nude heel: Stockings without reinforcement in the heel area. Opaque: Stockings made of yarn which give them a heavier appearance (usually 40 denier or greater). Point heel: in a Fully Fashioned stocking it is a heel in which the reinforced part ends in a triangle shape.

5. The painter reframing ‘dandies’ for the female gaze - AOL

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   Comprising 10 large-scale portraits in Sarah Ball’s signature airy colors, new exhibit “Titled” challenges gender conventions and celebrates exuberant self-expression.

6. Category:Holiday characters - Wikipedia

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   Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... Christmas characters (9 C, 104 P, 2 F) E. Easter Bunny (2 C ...

7. Fully fashioned stockings - Wikipedia

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   The back seam is an integral part of the stocking and not sewn on afterwards. [2] Fully fashioned stockings are sized to the height and shoe size (generally) of the wearer and have little or no stretch in them as they have no lycra (spandex) contained within the yarn. [3] In addition to the distinctive seam they also come in a number of heel ...

8. Blue Stockings Society - Wikipedia

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   The Blue Stockings Society was an informal women's social and educational movement in England in the mid-18th century that emphasised education and mutual cooperation. It was founded in the early 1750s by Elizabeth Montagu , Elizabeth Vesey and others as a literary discussion group , a step away from traditional, non-intellectual women's ...

9. Bodystocking - Wikipedia

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   Bodystocking. A bodystocking or body stocking is a one-piece skin-tight garment that covers the torso, legs and sometimes the arms of the wearer. It is a foundation garment or an article of lingerie usually made from a sheer fabric similar to that used for stockings or pantyhose, or from fishnet, lace or an opaque material, or a variation of these materials. [1]