/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9596914
Also, I don't suppose these items are too interesting to anyone else, but here's confirmation that brands themselves made sock toppers and they weren't just hand-made. I have a pair of old BtSSB "wristcuffs" that are so loose I always wondered if they were perhaps originally intended as sock toppers.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010414013413/http://www.victorianmaiden.com:80/catalogue/accessory/rg.html
>梯子状のトーションレースにベルベットリボンを通したガーターです。
>靴下止めや付け襟等、使用方法は様々です。
>伸縮性のあるレースをたっぷりと使用しており、またリボンで絞って頂く事がますので、
>靴下止めとして使用して頂く場合、
>オーバーニー~足首あらゆる長さの靴下に対応出来ます。
>It is a garter that passed a velvet ribbon through a ladder-shaped torsion lace.
>How to use is various like stopping socks and collar etc.
>I am using plenty of stretchy lace and I will squeeze it with a ribbon again,
>When you use it as a sock stop,
>Overnight ~ Ankle It can correspond to socks of any length.
(the fact that ankle socks get a mention also confirms their presence in some form as an item in oldschool)

That pair aren't on lollibrary but another similar set of garters from a few years later are:
https://lolibrary.org/items/victorian-maiden-lace-garter-belt-one-pair

I really need to learn how to make these (although I doubt I could find wide enough lace locally). I wear through the toes and heels of socks first and something like this would be so fucking useful and make lolita laundry so much easier - it'd save me having to either be kinda gross and avoid washing or only handwash the feet for as long as possible, or washing properly and then having to re-starch and re-iron every time.