Get In Loser, We're Going Shopping (in the 18th Century) 🛍

Try Acorn TV *free* for 30 days by going to https://www.acorn.tv and use the promo code: abbycox 🎉 A common misconception that is perpetuated about history is that people made their own clothes. All the time. For all of history. However, this simply isn't true. Just like today, there are only so many hours in a day, and there is always so much to do, to just *function* throughout your day. So, today, I want to walk you all through how people actually bought their clothes in the 18th and early 19th centuries, with a lot of explanation about the three main clothing trades: Tailors, Milliners, and Mantua-makers. So, now, people didn't make their own clothes back then. During the 18th & most of the 19th centuries, people paid skilled professionals to cut, fit, and sew custom clothes for them. If they couldn't have new clothes made, they would have old clothes remade. In some parts of Great Britain and during some time periods, second-hand clothing was an option too (but I don't talk about that here, btw) ((it also wasn't a thing the Colonies -- too much money & too much pride)). 😂 🥳Socials Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abbyelyn Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/abbycox Tiktok: @nabs_co 📚My books: The American Duchess Guide to 18th-Century Dressmaking: https://amzn.to/2GrkAIQ The American Duchess Guide to 18th-Century Beauty: https://amzn.to/2TTwJtq 🧵A Couple of Sewing Manuals: Workwoman's Guide, 1838: https://archive.org/details/TheWorkwomansGuide The Science & Geometry of Dress, 1876: https://archive.org/details/sciencegeometryo01jack/mode/2up 🖼Images Used Qu'en dites-vous?, 1818, British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2003-U-16 The Morning Ramble, 1782 British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-31 Nine Tailors Make a Man, 1774, British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2010-7081-950 The Pretty Mantua-Maker, 1772, British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0611-6 A Milliner’s Shop, 1787, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-352 Intelligence on the Change of the Ministry, 1783, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2010-7081-1165 Man’s Uncut Waistcoat, c. 1760, LACMA https://collections.lacma.org/node/214535 Le Bon Genre, Une Parisienne à son lever, 1815, British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1900-0319-12 The Bum Shop, 1785, British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1932-0226-12 Barbara Johnson’s Album from 1746-1823, Victoria and Albert Museum https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O140029/album-unknown/ A Domestick Scene, 1740s, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1937-1105-11 Atelier de Modistes, 1815, British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-0407-889 The Pretty Milliners, 1781, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2010-7081-3135 The Man of Feeling, in search of indispensibles; a scene in the little French Milleners, 1800, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-1015 The Man Milliner, 1783, British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-0518-978 The Unwelcomed Customer, 1772, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1860-0623-22 The devil among the tailors, 1805, British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1977-U-288 Le Lever des Modistes, 1830, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1886-1012-301 Trade Card for Turner & Hitchcock Milleners, 1803, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_D-2-3053 Advertisement, Milliners & Haberdashers, c. 1800, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Heal-86-11 Houses on the Corner of Red Crosse Street and Fore Street, Cripplegate, 1850, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-1113-4046 Trade card of Daniels, Tailor, 1810, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_D-2-4357 Trade card, T.Beck, Tailor, 1805, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_D-2-4361 💌Business Inquiries *ONLY* [email protected] (This email goes directly to my management and not to me.) 🎶Music via Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com) **I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for me to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. By purchasing items through the links listed above, I could earn a small commission for your purchase. Thank you.❤