Clothes shop
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Aclothes shoporclothes storeis any shop which sells items of ready-madeclothing.[1]: 59 A small shop which sells expensive ordesigner clothingmay be called aboutique.A shop that sells clothes for a narrowly-restricted market such asschool uniformsoroutdoor sportsmay be called anoutfitter.
History
[edit]It is not known when the first clothes shops were opened in Europe. Before the era of ready-made clothes, when clothing was made bytailorsor artisans, shops may have sold second-hand clothing. Some ready-made clothes may have been made in the sixteenth century.[2]The number of clothes shops appears to have risen steadily long before the beginning of large-scale industrial manufacture of clothing in the second half of the nineteenth century.[2]
References
[edit]- ^Gavin Dudeney, Nick Hockly (2010).Learning English as a Foreign Language for Dummies.Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.ISBN9780470685877.
- ^abAlison Toplis (2011).The Clothing Trade in Provincial England, 1800-1850.London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers.ISBN9781848931169.
