Female Tatler on shopping (1709) [ Practices ]
… I take to be as agreeable an amusement as a lady can pass away three or four hours in. The shops are perfect gilded theatres, the variety of wrought silks so many changes of fine scenes, and the Mercers are the performers in the Opera; … their dinner; and their perfumes, washes, and clean linen, equip them for the Parade." … "The shops are perfect gilded theatres, the variety of wrought silks so many changes of fine scenes, and the Mercers are the performers in the …
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