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State Alchemist
On a more serious note, originally, they were literal stockings. So the legend goes, old St. Nick dropped coins down a poor man's chimney and they fell into his daughter's stockings she had hung up by the fire to dry.
The non-wearable poundland "Christmas stockings" we have today are just commercial tat.
The non-wearable poundland "Christmas stockings" we have today are just commercial tat.