What is "two stocks for the neck?"

A stock was a form of necktie . . .



Here you see an elaborate stock of the later period. Note that there is a "neck cloth" wound around the middle. It is probably that neck cloth alone which is referred to as "stock for the neck."

This actor in a motion picture costume is wearing a stock with what would become known as a cravat. The stock is the cloth wound about his neck. The cravat is the cloth which hangs down over his shirt.



This image shows how a long stock was wound around the neck and tied in a bow, and from which the cravat eventually derived.



This image of Lord Cornwallis shows the earliest, simplest form of stock--the black cloth which is wound around his neck.



The modern neckties which men wear with their business suits is descended from the stock.

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This is an example for which all of my dictionaries (including online ones) fail to explain.
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