Captivating Consumers: Fashion adverts in 18th century Edinburgh

Captivating Consumers: fashion adverts in 18th century Edinburgh

This talk focuses on the people working in the fashion trade and the goods they sold from advertisements in The Caledonian Mercury in the mid-eighteenth century. From stories and details about individual makers and retailers we can get a sense of what the trade looked like and how it functioned in Edinburgh during this period, as well as make comparisons with other cities such as London.

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