...Chloe Wigston Smith Duke University Press 2007 “Callico Madams”: Servants, Consumption, and the Calico Crisis Chloe Wigston Smith Vassar College The “calico crisis” of 1719 – 21...

... buys of a local farmer’s family: a good sad-colour’d Stuff, of their own Spinning, enough to make me a Gown and two Petticoats; and I made Robings and Facings of a pretty Bit of printed Calicoe, I had by me. I had a pretty good Camlet quilted...

... of Pomp and Poverty” rides from Nanking to his provincial country-seat, clownishly dressed in a dirty calico jacket “with all the Tawdry and Trapping of a Fool’s Coat.” His horse is “poor, lean, starv’d, hobbling such as in England might sell for about 30 or 40 Shillings.” Once home, he sits “lolling...