Stockings were usually black for daytime wear and white or colored for evening. They were held up by garters. By the end of the century, the garters were attached to the corset. Cotton drawers went over the stockings.
Cephalopods include squid, octopus, cuttlefish, nautilus, spirula, and the extinct ammonites and belemnites. Cephalopods first appear in the fossil record nearly 500 million ago during the Ordovician Period. They are all mollusks, members of the same Phylum Mollusca as oysters, conches, and the common garden snail.
TRIASSIC PERIOD 248-208 Million Years Ago As the Mesozoic era begins, we see the rise of the what is known as the dinosaurs. Pterosaurs (flying reptiles) also made their first appearance here as well as frogs, turtles, and crocodiles. During the Late Triassic period, many small mammals also arose.