Dress, Culture and Commerce: The English Clothing Trade Before the Factory, 1660-1800 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312164041)

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.

Author: B. Lemire
ISBN-10: 0312164041
ISBN-13: 9780312164041
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/14/1997
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d