1. R. Campbell, The London Tradesman: Being a Compendious View of all the Trades, Professions, Arts, both Liberal and Mechanic, Now Practised in the Cities of London and Westminster (1747), p. 227.
2. Buying Clothes in Bedfordshire: Customers and Tradesmen, 1700–1800
3. The Cleaved Garment: The Maker, The Wearer and the “Me and Not Me” of Fashion Practice
4. For work on the social biographies of things, see Arjun Appadurai (ed.), The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
5. Carolyn Dowdell, `The Fruits of Nimble Fingers: Garment Construction and the Working Lives of Eighteenth-Century English Needlewomen' (unpublished master's thesis, University of Alberta, 2010); Carolyn Dowdell, `The Multiple Lives of Clothes: Alteration and Reuse of Women's Eighteenth-Century Apparel in England' (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Queen's University, 2015).