 | 1830 - 428 pages
...ladies of ample fortune ; and yet women of all ranks affected to wear it; and many of the lower classes of the middle ranks of society distressed their husbands,...brothers, to procure that expensive finery ; neither was a bandsome cotton gown attainable by women in humbler circumstances ; and hence the cottons were mixed... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 656 pages
...ample fortune, and yet women of almost all ranks affected to wear it : and many in the lower classes of the middle ranks of society distressed their husbands,...; and cotton goods are very much used in place of cambrics, lawns, and other expensive fabrics of flax ; and they have almost totally superseded the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1884 - 364 pages
...fine cotton goods, is rivalled in several parts of Great Britain. ... A handsome cotton gown was not attainable by women in humble circumstances, and thence the cottons were mixed with linen yarns to reduce their price. But now cotton yarn is cheaper than linen yarn, and cotton goods are very... | |
 | James Mackenzie Maclean - Mumbai (India) - 1889 - 720 pages
...manufactures and commerce, but also in the dress of both sexes. Formerly, a handsome cotton gown was not attainable by women in humble circumstances ; and...yarn, and cotton goods are very much used in place of cambrics, lawns, and other expensive fabrics of flax ; and they have almost totally superseded the... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - Scotland - 1899 - 298 pages
...1786 set cotton manufacture free to develop. " Now," says Macpherson, writing in that year, " cotton is cheaper than linen yarn, and cotton goods are very much used in place of cambric. Women of all ranks, from the highest to the lowest, are clothed in British manufactures of... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - Scotland - 1906 - 568 pages
...1786 set cotton manufacture free to develop. " Now," says Macpherson, writing in that year, " cotton is cheaper than linen yarn, and cotton goods are very much used in place of cambric. Women of all ranks, from the highest to the lowest, are clothed in British manufactures of... | |
 | Chester Whitney Wright - Tariff - 1910 - 396 pages
...MacPherson, under as early a date as 1785, says: " Neither was a cotton gown attainable by a woman in humble circumstances ; and thence the cottons were...with linen yarn to reduce their price. But now cotton yam is cheaper than linen yarn, and cotton goods are very much used in place of cambrics, lawns, and... | |
 | James Maclehose - Scotland - 1924 - 364 pages
...the early boom, cheapened cotton goods to the ordinary home consumer, and thus won it popularity. ' Now cotton yarn is cheaper than linen yarn, and cotton goods are very much used in place of cambrics, lawns and other expensive fabrics of flax ; and they have almost totally superseded silks.... | |
 | Mike Corbishley - History - 1998 - 420 pages
...luxuries, providing less than five per cent of Britain's exports, vet in 1785 an observer remarked. cotton yarn is cheaper than linen yarn, and cotton goods are very much used in place of ... expensive fabrics of flax; and they have almost totally superseded the silks. Women of all raoks... | |
 | Richard L. Tames - Business & Economics - 2005 - 232 pages
...labourer or servant with a few pence to spare. DOCUMENT 67 Macpherson Annals of Commerce (¡SoS), iv, p So Now cotton yarn is cheaper than linen yarn, and cotton goods are very much used in place of cambric, lawns, and other expensive fabrics of flax, and they have almost totally superseded the silks.... | |
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But now cotton yarn is cheaper than linen yarn ; and cotton goods are very much used in place of cambrics, lawns, and other expensive fabrics of flax ; and they have almost totally superseded the silks. Women of all ranks, from the highest to the lowest,... 