Researching the Garment Industry.

The author introduces this special edition of the journal featuring articles on the garment industry presented at a Pasold Research Fund workshop held on September 12, 2007 at the University of Leeds in Leeds, England. Articles include “Clothing the poor in early nineteenth-century England,” by Peter Jones, “Sartorial practices and autobiographies: British men, 1880-1939,” by Laura Ugolini and “The marketing of suits 1890-1970: Evidence from Business records,” by Katrina Honeyman.