Women wore cotton stockings and clunky, high-heeled shoes.

The white cotton stockings were next, then the golden slippers.

As they stepped into the street, a gust of wind blew Elizabeth's skirt up to reveal her ankles clad in the black cotton stockings.

On the mantel stood an array of Christmas cards and at either end hung red cotton stockings.

She found petticoats, too, and a pair of white cotton stockings, complete with garters.

She looked at the black cotton stockings and the worn brown shoes that bulged.

He wore very short trousers, and black cotton stockings, which, like the rest of his apparel, were particularly rusty.

The girls wore long sleeved dresses and long cotton stockings under them.

The clerk's shoe-heels were worn so badly that the nails showed, and his cheap cotton stockings had bagged at the ankles.

One has to be civil, even with a female who wears tweeds and cotton stockings.