Dress Culture and Commerce

The English Clothing Trade Before the Factory, 1660-1800

By: Beverly Lemire, Lemire

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Hardcover | 15 January 1997 | Edition Number 1

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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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Non-Fiction Industry & Industrial Studies Manufacturing Industries Textile Industries History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Regional & National History European History British & Irish History Earliest Times to Present Day Early Modern History from 1450 to 1700

Economics Microeconomics Domestic Trade Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Society & Social Sciences General & World History

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Dress, Culture and the English People
Bobby Shafto's Shirt and Britches: Contracted Clothing and the Transformation of the Trade
Redressing the History of the Clothing Trade: Ready-made Apparel, Guilds and Women Outworkers
Margins and Mainstream: Jews in the English Clothing Trade
Disorderly Women and the Consumer Market: Women's Work and the Second-hand Clothing Trade
The Theft of Clothes and Popular Consumerism
Bibliography
Index
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