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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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Beverly Lemire
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Book Title: Dress, Culture and Commerce
Book Subtitle: The English Clothing Trade before the Factory, 1660–1800
Authors: Beverly Lemire
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372757
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Beverly Lemire 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-16404-1Published: 14 March 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-39668-9Published: 14 March 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37275-7Published: 15 January 1997
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 224
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Early Modern Europe, Modern History, Industries, Social History