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Leading strings

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Child's costume with leading strings, 1650s

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

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