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Description: | Copper alloy dress hook or clothing fastener. The fastener consists of a double waisted sub-rectangular plate and a sharp integral hook. The plate is perforated by two iron rivets. Length 44mm, width 12mm. Dress hooks were, and to a limited degree still are, used for fastening items of clothing. Those hooks with sharp tips were probably used with cords or hooked directly into the material they fastened, while those hooks with blunt ends were probably used in conjunction with eyelets. Dress hooks are one of those unusual types of finds which enjoyed two separate periods of use in the past. Initially, they were popular in the Late Saxon period. Then their use was revived during the sixteenth century from when they remained in vogue until the eighteenth century; they are still occasionally used today on items of formal dress and clothing. Despite their relative ubiquity in the post-medieval period relatively little has been published on dress hooks and dating them precisely is difficult. This example is certainly post-medieval, and is probably of either sixteenth or seventeenth century date. The use of iron rivets is unusual and suggests the possibility that the hook was mounted on to a leather strap rather than a fabric item of clothing. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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