Britpick Question

[amberfocus]

What would you have called a store that sold dry goods in the 1910's? Here it would be the mercantile or simply the dry goods store. Is it the same in the U.K. or does it have some other name?

Comments

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

I don't even know what 'dry goods' are! Tell me that, and I might be able to help :)

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Fabric, textiles, ready to wear clothing, needles, snaps, zippers, thread and buttons.

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

I never would have got that from 'dry goods'! For some reason, I was visualising grains and flour and the like. Anyway, it sounds like a drapery shop - or just a drapery.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Okay, thanks.

[yumimum.livejournal.com]

I suppose the technical term would be the Haberdashery. Although, I suspect you could pick that sort of stuff up from the local markets or dressmakers.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I love that word! I am totally going to throw that word at my kids tomorrow.

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

It's a good one, actually. I was watching a period drama this morning, set somewhere in the second half of the nineteenth century, and one of the village shops was the Drapers and Haberdashers.

(Haberdashery, by the way, is the bits and bobs: zips, buttons, hooks and eyes, needles and threads).

[develish1]

I can't really add anything, since yumi and wendy have already answered, and said what I would have, but I just wanted to let you know I did finally see this, lol