Clothing Trade in Provincial England, 1800-1850
Details:
- Author(s) Toplis, Alison
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2011
- Pages 235pp; illus
- Publisher Pickering & Chatto
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Consumption, consumerism & associated ethics
- Name Advertising
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly work. See also the writer's 'The Non Elite Consumer and 'Wearing Apparel' in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, 1800-1850', PhD, Wolverhampton, 2008. Explores purchase and exchange of clothing by provincial non-elite consumers. Has sections: 'Clothing shops and working class consumers'; 'The shopkeeper and the working class consumer'; 'Selling by non-fixed traders'; 'Clothing the poor - parish relief'; 'Clothing the poor - charity'; 'Fashion and the working class consumer'