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The Clothing Trade in Provincial England, 1800-1850.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives in Economic and Social History SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317323051
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Clothing Trade in Provincial England, 1800-1850DDC classification:
  • 338.4
LOC classification:
  • HD9940.G82.T67 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Clothing Shops and Working-Class Consumers -- 2 The Shopkeeper and the Working-Class Consumer -- 3 Selling by Non-Fixed Traders -- 4 Clothing the Poor: Parish Relief -- 5 Clothing the Poor: Charity -- 6 Fashion and the Working-Class Consumer -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: This detailed study is the first exploration of rural consumption of clothing in early nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on evidence from a range of sources including newspapers, trade directories, court records, visual sources and surviving garments, Toplis investigates how the apparel of the mass of the British population was acquired.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Clothing Shops and Working-Class Consumers -- 2 The Shopkeeper and the Working-Class Consumer -- 3 Selling by Non-Fixed Traders -- 4 Clothing the Poor: Parish Relief -- 5 Clothing the Poor: Charity -- 6 Fashion and the Working-Class Consumer -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

This detailed study is the first exploration of rural consumption of clothing in early nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on evidence from a range of sources including newspapers, trade directories, court records, visual sources and surviving garments, Toplis investigates how the apparel of the mass of the British population was acquired.

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