Clothing Trade in Provincial England, 1800–1850

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Clothing Shops and Working-Class Consumers; Chapter 2 The Shopkeeper and the Workingclass Consumer; Chapter 3 Selling by Non-Fixed Traders; Chapter 4 Clothing the Poor: Parish Relief; Chapter 5 Clothing The Poor: Charity; Chapter 6 Fashion and the Working-Class Consumer; conclusion Conclusion;

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