German Long Stockings: Ribbing


Figure 1.--These Dresden children are unidentified. We would guess their portrait was taken in the 1890s. The middle boy wears ribbed long stockings. The ribbing does ot show up in most portraits.

Some long stockings were heavily ribbed. Other do not seem to be ribbed at all. We note a few images of ribbed stockings in the photographic record. The relative rarity of ribbing in avalable photographs suggest that ribbed stockings were not very common. While this appears go be the case for heavily ribbed stockings, we believe that ribbing may not be piked up by the camera. This may be the case when the stockings are not heavily ribbed. This is a topic that we do not yet fully inderstand.








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