1. Useful entries into this extensive literature can be made through: A. Buck (1979) Dress in Eighteenth-Century England (London: Batsford)
2. B. Lemire (1991) Fashion’s Favourite: The Cotton Trade and the Consumer in Britain, 1660–1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
3. B. Lemire (2003), ‘Fashioning cottons: Asian trade, domestic industry and consumer demand, 1660–1780’, in D. Jenkins (ed.), The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, vol.1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 493–512
4. G. Riello and P. Parthasarathi (eds.) (2009) The Spinning World. A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200–1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
5. N. Steensgard (1990) ‘The growth and composition of the long-distance trade of England and the Dutch Republic before 1750’, in J.D. Tracy (ed.), The Rise of Merchant Empires. Long-Distance Trade in the Early-Modern World, 1350–1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), p. 126.