The Clothing Trade in Provincial England, 1800–1850

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Alison Toplis

Perspectives in Economic and Social History

This is the first detailed study to examine the purchase and exchange of clothing by provincial non-elite consumers. Toplis investigates how everyday apparel was bought and sold using evidence from a wide range of sources including newspapers, trade directories, court records, visual sources and surviving garments. She shows how acquisition patterns varied according to location and examines the retail networks for these types of consumers: how they obtained their clothes; how they used suppliers; and how they perceived their clothing and its relationship with fashion.

Sample pages

• Introduction
• Index

Readership

Social History, Business History, History of Dress and Textiles, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Gender Studies

Contents

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

Related titles

• Clothing, Society and Culture in Nineteenth-Century England
• Stays and Body Image in London: The Staymaking Trade, 1680–1810
• The British Cotton Trade, 1660–1815

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