Oh, we are a touch outside of my expertise for the late-18th century wool industry. What I can say is that the export of English/Welsh/Scottish wool, primarily to Flanders (and from there to the rest of Europe) becomes very significant in the 14th century...
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...of all of that small-scale background textile production. And remember: all those men in the army would have needed to wear clothes if they were in the army or not, so the background production was there if the state could harness it...
So in that sense, the really decisive thing about clothing Napoleon's armies was the same as arming them, or manning them: the combination of the more efficient administration system of the old regime with the unlimited demands a *national* government could make. /thread
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I can easily imagine lots of hand-me-downs for children, but in practice, the peasantry tend to wear their clothing to destruction and that destruction, for work clothes, can come quite quickly. Cato the Elder - a harsh jerk of a slave-master - still budgeted for...
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