Mercery

Under Haberdashery refers to small items for sewing. These include buttons, threads, buckles, needles and zippers.

Etymology

The term haberdashery ( Swiss also Tailors ) has evolved from the older " short goods " ( 18th century). The adjective " short " referred not necessarily only on the length, it could be "small" used in the sense of.

Johann Christoph Adelung added the following:

The " short goods " has sometimes been compared with the "long goods ":

Grimm's dictionary this:

• The short / / is wol prop which is not measured by the elle, no / ellenwaare / is the müszte then be / meant by the / long commodity.

" Short goods " therefore are goods that are not measured at the Elle, Elle no goods, today is no longer sold by the meter, as usually the substances, but general cargo or bulk.

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