The oddly specific history of the Christmas stocking.
from the Society’s first Festival of St. Nicholas celebrations in early December 1810 with a drawing of the saint himself, standing next to a traditional Dutch fireplace. And right next to him? A fireplace, hung with stockings. A few years later, in 1822, when Clement Clark Moore’s “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” first appeared in the Troy, New York sentinel, “the stockings were hung by the chimney with care,” narrative was firmly slotted into Christmas, not St. Nicholas day, tradition.
Soon filling stockings with tiny toys, treats, and candies, not coins, caught on. I also stumbled on afrom 1954 with the headline, “Gifts to Make the Christmas Stocking Plumper ... Available for $2 or Less,” which honestly sounds like it could be on Food52 today, with minor adjustments for inflation.
Two hundred and ten-some-odd-years after that early broadside image of St Nicholas, the sight of stockings hanging by a crackling fire still says Christmas. And while I do not need a dowry, thank you very much, I still love the ritual of hanging stockings . I actually quite like the idea of hanging up an old wool sock, patches and all, but I think I’ll opt for something handmade this year, for our first stockings in our first home together.
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