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

by Beverly Lemire and Lemire

Book Overview

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"