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single stockings - John Harrower recorded in his diary, “I think no more of seeing forty or fifty Nigers every day than I did of seeing so many dabling wives at Johnsmiss with single stockings.”
Yarn was in short supply in the new country and much in demand in households that did hand weaving as well as in workplaces with looms that produced sheeting, shirting, and stockings for commerce.
Dolley Madison, he explains, controlled her diminutive husband and "launched the White House's first 'drawing room' receptions which, in her day, were celebrated--the men in 'black or blue coat with vest, black breeches and black stockings,' the ladies 'not remarkable for anything so much as for the exposure of their swelling breasts and bare backs.
Why would Harrower be concerned with the thickness of stockings?
The German word for silk stockings escaped me, but the English word hose promptly suggested itself to my mind.