Elizabeth's Silk Stockings
HE first person to wear a pair of silk | stockings in England was probably the boy king Edward VI. Up to the time of Henry VIII., hose were made of ordinary cloth. The king’s own stockings were made out of yard-wide taffata. As most of you know, the king was a very big man. Not many of you know that he had a skin disease and he would need softer hose that would not chafe his skin. So he had special stockings made, possibly to save him irritation. His son, Edward VI., received as a present from Sir Thomas Gresham "a pair of long Spanish stockings." For some years after, silk stockings continued to be very rare in England. In the second year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, her silk woman, Mistress Montague, presented Her Majesty with a pair of black knit
silk stockings for a New Year’s gift. These, after a few days’ wear pleased the Queen so much that she sent for Mistress Montague, and asked her where she got them, and if she could find her some more. The silk woman answered: "I made them very carefully, on purpose only for Your Majesty, and seeing those please you so well, I will presently make some more." "Do so," replied the Queen, "for indeed I like silk stockings so well, because they are pleasant, fine, and delicate, that henceforth I will wear no more cloth stockings." And from that-time to her death the Queen never wore cloth hose, but only silk stockings.-(" The Junior Encyclopedia of the Air.’ 2YA, April 6.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 149, 1 May 1942, Page 3
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