History
The most famous example of double knitting is the pair of socks knitted simultaneously on one set of knitting needles by Anna Makarovna, the nanny in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
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- When the pair was finished, she made a solemn ceremony of pulling one stocking out of the other in the presence of the children.
Double knitting became popular within 1970s fashion; in the 1989 Grammy Award-winning song "Parents Just Don't Understand," Will Smith comically excoriates his mother for forcing him to wear outdated, 1970s-era "double-knit reversible slacks."
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