Accessories of Dress
by KATHERINE MORRIS LESTER
AND BESS VIOLA OERKE
DRAWINGS BY HELEN WESTERMANN
CHARLES A. BENNETT PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTER 22
Hose
CHAPTER 22
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Hose
Play not the peacock, looking everywhere about you to see if you are well decked,
if your shoes fit well, if your stockings sit neatly, and your clothes handsomely.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Roules of Courtesy and Decency of Behaviour
It has been truly said that women of the twentieth century wear the clothes that only yesterday were designed for queens. This is especially true of hosiery, for it is a matter of history that in the third year of her reign (1561) Queen Elizabeth was presented with her first pair of knitted silk stockings. So rare and beautiful was this new accessory of dress that Elizabeth, in her delight, forever after refused to wear any other than silk stockings. Today every woman may wear silk stockings; and milady's hose of modern times must appear as gossamer of fairyland when compared with those of England's queen in 1561.
The story of the modern stocking is an involved one. The word "stocking" does not appear in the vocabulary of dress until the sixteenth century and, according to Tooke, is derived from the Anglo-Saxon prican meaning "to stick." He implies that the word was probably first written stoken or stocken - that is, stock with addition of the participial termination en because it was "stuck" or made with sticking pins, now called knitting needles. Modern sources say the word is derived from the Anglo-Saxon stocc , meaning "post," "stocking" being the "post wrapping."
Middle Ages
It is undoubtedly true that throughout the middle ages women were familiar with the stocking. Though in these early days the long, enveloping mantle was worn and there was no display of hosiery, it is not too much to conjecture that women had developed a leg covering similar to that worn by men. As early as Chaucer's time, women had adopted the word hose . Of the wife of Bath we read:
Hir hosen weren of fine skarlet reddle,
Ful straite y-tyed.
Of approximately the same time is a nai(点２つ)ve and interesting drawing which appears in a manuscript of the fourteenth century (1307-27), repre-
（今日はここまで・・・はぁはぁ・・・）
p287
CHAPTER 23
Garters
ref:
Accessories of Dress: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (Dover Fashion and Costumes) (英語) ペーパーバック – 2004/6/14
Katherine Lester (著), Bess Viola Oerke (著)
Katherine Morris Lester
Bess Viola Oerke
HELEN WESTERMANN
CHARLES A. BENNETT PUBLICATIONS
追記：
グーグル検索、通販、オークションで検索するといっぱい出てくるので目が回ってしまうのですが、ストッキング、ガーター、ホーザリー、コラント、タイツなどの起源や発祥、歴史についての資料でいいものをご存知の方はもしよかったらですが、そして、大変お手数をおかけいたしますが、コメントで教えていただけたらとっても嬉しいですし、ありがたいです。私も少しずつですが学び中です。
よく映画で古代ローマ時代の兵士がはいているのは「ホース」の部類なのでしょうか
服飾とかファッションのデザインとかの大学、短大図書館で調べてみてもいいのかな・・・
あとは、美術大学とかの図書館でいろんな女王様の肖像画・絵画集をいろいろ見ていくと新発見があるかもしれませんね。
こんなことも気になり始めています。。。
