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

by Beverly Lemire and Lemire

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1349396680

ISBN13:9781349396689

Release Date:March 1997

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.73 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Business Business & Investing History Materials & Material Science Polymers & Textiles Social Science Social Sciences

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