This paper fust surveys available evidence on consumption patterns in the period between the gold rushes and the fust world war (Section 1), then attempts to integrate this evidence to achieve a reasonably consistent set of estimates across the period (Section 2). The changes in the composition...

This paper re-examines quations regarding consumer expenditure on clothing, and the nature of production and distribution in the clothing sector in the early nineteenth century using evidence from archives of a rural tailor, Robert Mansbridge of Basing.