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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Saskia Kemsley

Best Christmas stockings for a kicking festive mantlepiece

The unsung hero of Christmas celebrations, diving into a packed stocking is often the part of Christmas we enjoy the most, and not just because some families choose to open their stockings ever so slightly early on Christmas Eve.

Filled to the brim with delightful trinkets, sweet treats and miniatures, stockings dangle from our mantlepieces during the entire festive period – teasing us with the prospect of untold delights all December long.

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