Stocking up on stockings

Since I've started using my thinner stockings more they also break more often and need to be replaced, so I have now done some internet shopping in that department. Unfortunately the dollar is now so high compared to the swedish crown that shopping at Sock Dreams is a rare luxury, but fortunately there's also a swedish shop that at least has some fun stockings and a good selection of basic stuff. Today it was mostly basic.

A lovely book about 18th century clothing

I am currently reading The dress of the people - Everyday fashion in eighteenth century England by historian John Styles (2007); and what wonderful, well researched book it is! Apart from being very interesting it also gives me an urge to sew: I would very much like a gown from a cotton "Flowerd all over with cards", as it is described in the notes in the London foundling hospitals "billet books". Finding the fabric seems unlikely though.