Title A foot in the past : consumers, producers and footwear in the long eighteenth century / Giorgio Riello

Published Oxford ; New York : Pasold Research Fund/Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description xiii, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm Series Pasold studies in textile history ; 15 Pasold studies in textile history ; 15 Contents 1. Stepping in : fashion and footwear -- 2. Demand and consumption -- 3. Innovation and tradition -- 4. Shops and shopping -- 5. Artisans and guilds -- 6. Manufacturing and subcontracting -- 7. Continental competition -- 8. Towards industrialization -- 9. Stepping out : conclusion Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-286) and index Subject Clothing and dress -- Social aspects. Footwear industry -- France -- History -- 18th century. Footwear industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Footwear -- France -- History -- 18th century. Footwear -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. LC no. 2006283580 ISBN 0199292256 (hbk.)

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