Dress, Culture and Commerce - B. Lemire - Palgavre, 1997
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Dress, Culture and Commerce
The English Clothing Trade Before The Factory, 1660-1800
di B. Lemire
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan UK
EAN: 9781349396689
ISBN: 1349396680
Pagine: 244
Formato: Paperback
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.