"The women wore ... stiff stays, hoops from six inches to two feet on each side, so that a full
dressed lady entered a door like a crab, pointing her obtruding flanks end foremost, high healed shoes of black stuff with white cotton or thread stockings"    from   18th Century apparel / First hand accounts by John F. Watson published 1830.

A very lovely lady from the 1st Continentals and her hand-sewn pocket.

She explained that this one is larger than an original.  She hand-

embroidered the pocket with crewel thread and the design is based on

one found in Albany, New York. The pocket is draw-stringed onto tapes.

Also notice her wool short gown and the small-checked linen apron. .Her

pocket, by the way, has lasted her through sixteen seasons!