Playford's Progeny

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====== YELLOW STOCKINGS ======

Dance by Neal  1726.\\ 
Proper duple minor dance. \\
Interpreted by Jackson & Fogg in 1990.\\ 
Found in "The Playford Assembly".\\
Recordings: {{ ::music:yellow_stockings-_064-bn3sp14.mp3.zip |}}
<code>
   A1 1st corners turn twice with two hands
   A2 2nd corners do the same
   B1 1C slip down (3) & back (3) & cast (6)
   B2 4 changes of circular hey
</code>
====== YELLOW STOCKINGS ======
Jackson & Fogg, 1990\\
Neal 1726\\
<code>
Al 1-4 1st corners two-hand turn twice around.
A2 1-4 2nd corners two-hand turn twice around.
Bl 1-4 1s, taking two hands, slip down the center of the set (1 bar), 
       then slip back to place (1 bar) and cast off down into 2nd  place, 
       2s moving up (2 bars).
B2 1-4 Four changes of rights and lefts, starting with partner.</code>
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ny8te44do
Source: Neal Book c.1726

 In Shakespeare's time Londoners understood the wearing of yellow stockings to signal illicit sexuality and marital betrayal [2]. The color yellow has symbolized jealousy since Elizabethan times. He wears yellow stockings was, from the late 16th century through the 18th century, a way of saying He is jealous.

Yellow dye was obtained from the saffron plant, which was cultivated in
England in the 16th and 17th centuries, especially around Cambridgeshire. It
was expensive, but not wholly out of reach: Sir Thomas Overbury’s “Country
Gentleman” goes to court in yellow stockings, and Shakespeare’s Malvolio in
Twelfth Night famously wore them to make, as he fondly imagined, a good im-
pression. They could signify jealousy or cuckoldry, as in the Roxburghe Ballad
“Household Talke” from the 1620s.