Dress, Culture and Commerce

The English Clothing Trade before the Factory, 1660–1800

B. Lemire (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

1997
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-65204-6 (ISBN)

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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. The agents in this trade included military contractors for clothing, female outworkers and dealers in used clothes.

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.

Beverly Lemire

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.1.1997
Zusatzinfo	16 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 224 p. 16 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Technik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-333-65204-5 / 0333652045
ISBN-13	978-0-333-65204-6 / 9780333652046
Zustand	Neuware