Main entry:

Adburgham, Alison.

Title & Author:

Shops and shopping, 1800-1914; where, and in what manner the well-dressed Englishwoman bought her clothes.

Publication:

London, Allen and Unwin [1964]

Description:

xx, 304 pages illustrations 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-291).
Shopping during the Napoleonic Wars -- After Waterloo -- Women shopkeepers -- Queen Adelaide's 'buy British' campaign -- The era of retail adventurers -- The apparel and apparatus of grief -- The tartan epidemic and highland fever -- Country clothes, waterproofs and umbrellas -- Shops of the crinoline era -- Traffic problems and west End shopping -- Home dressmaking and private dressmakers -- The early days of ready-to-wear -- The beginning of the department stores -- Westbourne Grove : the Bond Street of the West -- Kensington and the suburbs -- The Aesthetic movement -- The woollen movement -- Shop fittings and shops of the 'eighties -- Co-operatives and tailoring houses -- The new woman and the new shopping -- Edwardian dressmakers -- Frou-frou ladies and splendid sportswomen -- The stories reach their zenith.

Subject:

Clothing trade Great Britain.
Retail trade Great Britain.
Commerce de détail Grande-Bretagne.
Clothing trade.
Retail trade.
Kleidung
Great Britain.
Großbritannien

Holdings:

Location: Library main 78626
Call No.: W4161; ID:84-B594
Status: Available