Dress, Culture and Commerce. The English clothing trade before the factory, 1660-1800
Details:
- Author(s) Lemire, Beverly
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1997
- Pages 224pp; illus
- Publisher Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
Topics:
- Name Government procurement
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Crime & misdemeanour inc fraud, theft & sharp practice
- Name Consumption, consumerism & associated ethics
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Six standalone scholarly essays. Deals with wearing apparel production for the masses - labouring men and women, soldiers and sailors - and related activities such as government contracting, putting out, second hand trading, etc. Has sections: '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, 1650-1800'; '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'