What are Cross-Gartered Stockings, Anyway?

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Malvolio makes a bold, and memorable, statement with his yellow cross-gartered stockings in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, but if you're new to 16th century men's fashion statements, you may be wondering what cross-gartered means. In this episode, I'll explain the history of pants (stockings) in Elizabethan England along with some history that helps explains why choosing yellow cross gartered stockings for Malvolio was designed to be so intense.

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Scene from ‘Twelfth Night’ (‘Malvolio and the Countess’)
exhibited 1840
Artist: Daniel Maclise 1806–1870
(c) Tate, Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported)
Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/maclise-scene-from-twelfth-night-malvolio-and-the-countess-n00423

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