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Dress, Culture and Commerce: The English Clothing Trade before the Factory, 1660–1800 1st ed. 1997 Edition
Author(s): B. Lemire (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: March 14, 1997
- Edition: 1st ed. 1997
- Language: English
- Print length: 244 pages
- ISBN-10: 1349396680
- ISBN-13: 9781349396689
Book 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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Beverly Lemire
