'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'