November 29, 2022
Shopping for the Hard to Buy For?
A few Meltonians sport blue birdseye stocks under their scarlet coats in this painting by Sir Francis Grant (1839)
Several years ago, Foxhunting Life published a story about an attractive item of attire from foxhunting’s earliest days―the blue birdseye stock tie. Eye-catching and colorful, it can be seen in eighteenth-century foxhunting prints if you look closely.
