Anonymous >> #238153
Posted on 2016-06-29 15:48:53 Score: 1 (vote Up)   (Report as spam)
Seeing the stool... I'm gonna go off into lala land.

We all have this notion that ladies back then used a chair or stool to put on their stockings. However, we recently acquired a piece of antique furniture that has drawers on both sides, a massive mirror that goes from head down to about mid-hip, and has a recessed area in the middle like it's a chair. But, it's too narrow to sit in.

We were puzzled by this, and kept googling to figure out what it was. Turns out it's an antique dressing vanity. There's antique makeup vanities with big mirrors and drawers and things which ladies would sit at. Well, this thing is a dressing vanity.

A lady would keep her stockings and undergarments in it. She would put her feet up one at a time on the recessed middle area to clip her stockings and adjust her seamline in the mirror. It gave a full-length view of her from mid-hip to head. This way she didn't need to put her feet on a chair while dressing, and she had a mirror to look in to line everything up and make sure it was perfect.

The one we have is dated back to 1930's. I think women were using clip-up stockings up until 1960's... I think in 1970's they got panty hose with elastic that would stay up by itself, and many women made the shift. Stockings of old were really nice things made of very nice fabric. You would wash and care for them and keep a pair for a long time. Unlike panty hose these days which are flimsy, cheap POS' that get destroyed after a few washings and use.

It's interesting how as time has gone by and fashion has changed our furniture has changed along with it. To the point that we have antique furniture floating around that it's really hard to tell what the purpose of it was.

tl;dr .. history lesson on furniture prompted by her putting her leg on a stool.

Anonymous >> #239468
Posted on 2016-07-11 04:42:17 Score: 1 (vote Up)   (Report as spam)
neat! thanks for the history lesson

Anonymous >> #239496
Posted on 2016-07-11 15:13:07 Score: 1 (vote Up)   (Report as spam)
Whether shes putting her foot on a stool, or vanity dresser or sitting on the side of the bed, its a total turn on watching a woman putting on stockings.

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