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We notice English boys wearing a variety of long stockings, including patterened stockings. Most long stockings were palin, flat colors. The patterns we notice are primarily striped stockings. We used the term striped stockings because it is commonly used. Actually it is more like banded stockings as the stripes are jorizontal and not verica;. This acoount to the vast majority of the patterened stockings we have noted. We see a huge number of these striped stickings in the photograohic record. We have, however found a few boys wearing other patterned stockings. The most common seems to argle patterns, perhaps because of the Scottish commection.
We note a lot of illustrations suggesting children wore stripped long stockings in the mid-19th century. Many of the illustratios come from English sources. We were a little surprised by this because our archive of American images does not how this fashion in the 1840s and 50s and in the 60s we mostly see white long stockings. As there are few English Dags and Ambros, we are unable to assess hosiery trends at mid-century with any validity during the 1850s and 60s. We do note a Lewis Carol portrait of the Cameron boys (late-1850s). The older boy, charles, is wearing stripped long stockings with some kind of a skirted outfit. We do begin to see large numbers of portraits with the appearance of the CDV (1860s). We do not, however, see children wearing stripped long stockings.
We have not found a lot of other patterned stockings besides striped stockings. We do note argyles. They were primarily associated with Highland outfirs, but we see them worn with suits as well. This ws not bvery common, but we do see examples. Our English archive is not large, but is growing. This it is a little difficult to assess trens such as chronology and age. One complication here is we are not entirely sure about the type of hosiery involved. The argyles worn with Highland outfits were knee socks, but turn-or top socks. And turn-over tops when pulled up are esentially long stockings. We are still working out how to categorize them. It is difficult because when worn with knee pants or knickers it is difficult to tell how long they were.
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