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There was also a brand of boys stockings that came with reinforced button holes in the thigh high hem. These button holed stocking tops could then be secured to various underwear items or perhaps shirt tails on to which handy mothers could sew mating buttons.

A HBC contributor reports, "I have seen in old catalogues, lots of under clothings with tabs and buttons for attaching stockings. The tabs and buttons were for stocking supporters and the attachment of garters to support the stockings. The stockings are only good for children wearing underwear with buttons. Otherwise, the buttons would have to be sewn on the underwear and from earlier advertisements I have read about children's underwear with buttons, it needed to be reinforced. This restriction would mean that unless the clothing already came with buttons the stockings would not be useful. To my way of thinking, this probably limited the sales and I agree with your assessment that this variation was probably never much of a commercial success.