Walking sticks have come a long way from their humble origins as mere support tools to becoming significant style statements. While today they are often associated with the elderly or those requiring ...

A walking stick once owned by abolitionist Frederick Douglass has been acquired by the South Carolina State ... they presented him with the walking stick, its gold cap engraved with his name, ...

Calling his book “the definitive guide to (perhaps) the world's first fashion accessory,” Moss identifies the mid-19th century as the peak of the walking stick’s golden era in U.S. and the U.K.