from the Sheffield Independent 15th January 1825 :
" To Women in Dirty Weather. - If you should get tired, as very likely you may, of walking in your pattens, you will carry them in your hand ; in which case take care that they are sufficiently dirty, and then you may cause yourself to be respected by holding them out straight before you with all the length of your arm, pretty much in the attitude in which sign painters delight to exhibit red lions - you will thus set clear handsome black prints of a double OO , on the clothes of any rude fellow that obstructs your line of march."