Woman's Lined Summer Socks (Gyeop-Beoseon)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Feb 1886
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ensign U S N John B. Bernadou
notes: label: Notes
content: "Late 19th century. Cotton. Boot-like, these socks have deeply cut insteps, rounded heels, and sharply turned toes. Small and narrow feet were considered an essential part of high-born fen1inine beauty, and the socks are made to fit tight. Korean socks are invariably made of bleached or unbleached white cotton. The only exception is colored silk socks for Choson royal dress (Kim, 1988b: 234-235). The unpadded, lined socks are for summer use. Ref: Hough Korean Catalog p. 450; Bernadou Field Notes 129" [from: "An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom: The J.B. Bernadou Korean Collection 1884-1885", Chang-su Cho Houchins, 2004, number 36]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016970
label: USNM Number
content: E77106-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sock
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 27.5 cm
label: Width
content: 14.8 cm