Main entry:

Adburgham, Alison, author.

Title & Author:

Shops and shopping, 1800-1914 : where, and in what manner the well-dressed Englishwoman bought her clothes / Alison Adburgham.

Publication:

London : George Allen and Unwin, 1964.

Description:

xx, 304 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-291) and index.
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 History 19th century.
Retail trade Great Britain History 19th century.
Commerce de détail Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Kleidung
Großbritannien

Holdings:

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