'Theft of clothes' in B Lemire, Dress, Culture and Commerce. The English clothing trade before the factory, 1660-1800

Details:

Author(s) Lemire, Beverly
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1997
Pages pp121-46
Publisher Macmillan
Place Published Basingstoke

Topics:

Name Crime & misdemeanour inc fraud, theft & sharp practice
Name Consumption, consumerism & associated ethics

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Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:

'Aims to assess the relationship between consumerism and crime in early modern England as expressed through the appetite for clothing'. Sections include: 'Popular fashion and second hand clothing'; 'Stripping strangers and rifling rooms'; 'The looting of shops and the disposal of clothing'