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Leading strings

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Child's costume with leading strings, 1650s

Leading strings are narrow straps of fabric attached to children's clothing in seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe which originally functioned as a sort of leash to keep the child from straying too far or falling as it learned to walk.

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