Shops and Shopping, 1800-1914. Where and in what manner the well dressed Englishwoman bought her clothes

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A narrative account of aspects of shopping and, more generally of retailing, focusing on the retail distribution of wearing apparel but also shedding light on the parallel development of wearing apparel production, notable ready to wear clothing and dressmaking. Provides insights into consumption. Chapters include, by way of example, 'Shopping during the Napoleonic Wars'; 'Women shopkeepers'; 'Shops of the crinoline era'; 'Country clothes, waterproofs and umbrellas'; 'Home dressmaking and private dressmakers'; 'The beginnings of department stores'; 'Shop fittings and shops of the 'eighties'; 'Edwardian dressmakers'; 'Early days of ready to wear'