tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post5417118726204122557..comments2024-03-27T08:38:55.922+00:00Comments on Knitting Now and Then: Helps to Knitters 101Barbarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16481362252017232022noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post-45357701814091580622022-01-06T11:30:26.317+00:002022-01-06T11:30:26.317+00:00Hi Heather. Thanks for your comment. Good to kno...Hi Heather. Thanks for your comment. Good to know the link to Trove was useful - it's an amazing resource. Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481362252017232022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post-35815145369676151972022-01-04T01:47:05.595+00:002022-01-04T01:47:05.595+00:00Hello Barbara - I enjoyed reading your latest ent...Hello Barbara - I enjoyed reading your latest entry and many thanks for mentioning Trove and providing a link - a great place to read old women's magazines - some with interesting knitting patterns! Heather (Maine, USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17064002073222669888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post-17458183246532310802022-01-03T13:14:55.171+00:002022-01-03T13:14:55.171+00:00I think you're quite right. And said woman sh...I think you're quite right. And said woman should test the spattees by going for a country walk in the rain. But who? And where would she get the spattees from? I just don't know.... Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481362252017232022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post-1686579338723478802022-01-02T07:20:28.387+00:002022-01-02T07:20:28.387+00:00Barbara, this excellently told story is woefully i...Barbara, this excellently told story is woefully incomplete without a picture of a 2022 woman modelling this garment.Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800852933957473625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post-51810809787163870842022-01-01T12:38:57.031+00:002022-01-01T12:38:57.031+00:00Thanks for the comment. I have seen earlier patte...Thanks for the comment. I have seen earlier patterns for women's gaiters myself, including one in Paton's Knitting & Crocheting Book (in the 1909 edition, and probably earlier editions too). Patons & Baldwins did use the word 'spat' in their Helps to Knitters leaflet - it was only in the Australian copy of the pattern that it gets translated into spattee, and so I assume that P&B intended the connection with men's spats, even though those were only ankle length. And even though other references in the press around 1926/7, like the one you mention and those I have quoted, call them spattees. I've just looked in my ancient (1933 edition) Concise Oxford Dictionary, and that lists spattee as 'A kind of gaiter for women and girls made in imitation of Highland stockings' and gives a date of 1926, which suggests that Lady Strathspey's At Home might indeed have introduced the word, as well as the garment. Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481362252017232022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post-57861934730469484202022-01-01T02:42:39.138+00:002022-01-01T02:42:39.138+00:00There are plenty of patterns for knitted gaiters f...There are plenty of patterns for knitted gaiters from about the mid-victorian period not dissimilar to this pattern. A spat or "spatterdash" usually refers to a short gaiter - one could not not describe the illustrated 'spattee' as a spat. Perhaps 'gaiter' was too old fashioned sounding for the flapper's kneelength or over knee gaiter. Or possibly it was to differentiate the knitted pull-on style sartorially from the classic buttoned or buckled gaiter of wool,cloth,rubber or leather? The 'spattee' seems to appear as a name for ladies' knitted gaiters in the 1920s (eg from Womans Mirror May 1927 "newest thing in hosiery is the gaiterhose or spattee, made of stocking-wool, shaped like a spat").Lnoreply@blogger.com