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Dress, Culture and Commerce: The English Clothing Trade before the Factory, 1660-1800

By Beverly Lemire

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1997
ISBN
0312164041, 9780312164041
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
44 MB (45822593 bytes)
Pages
240\241
Time added
2014-02-08 00:03:16

Description

This work examines a trade that covered the backs of sailors and soldiers, that shirted labouring men and skirted working women, that employed legions of needlewomen and supplied retailers with new consumer wares. Garments, once bought, returned again to the marketplace, circulating like a currency and bolstering demand. The agents in this trade included military contractors for clothing, female outworkers and dealers in used clothes. Each was affected by a changing demand for new-styled 'luxuries' and necessities in apparel.

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