"Shoes and Stockings" is an American reel in 4/4 or cut time and G Major. The parts are played AB (Silberberg) or AABB (Songer). This is another tune from Henry Reed as collected by Alan Jabbour. Henry Reed said that "Shoes and Stockings" was a tune of Quince Dillon, a fifer in both the Mexican War and the Civil War. Quince also was an accomplished fiddler. Quince's unit, the 166th Virginia Militia, was eventually incorporated into the 59th Virginia Infantry, which along with other Confederate units, was captured at the Battle of Roanoke Island, North Carolina on February 8, 1862. As the story goes, the Yankee commander of the prison where Dillon was imprisoned held a fiddle contest. The prize was that the fiddler who played the best original composition would be set free. Quince Dillon played a song he composed on the spot and won the contest! The tune shares some phrases with "The Twin Sisters" (English version). I don't know if there is any real connection. It was printed in Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002), Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021) and Songer's Portland Collection (1997). It was recorded by Jabbour, Bradley and Thompson on Sandy's Fancy (1981) and Alan Jabbour, James Ree and Bertram Levy on A Henry Reed Reunion (2002).