Domestic service and livery

Domestic service and livery — prescribed dress within commerce and service.

Collection: Commerce and Service

Every type of commerce and service in one place — 7 chapters, Kitchen and culinary, Front of house, Hotel and accommodation and the rest, with the plates and an inventory to download.
Plates from the Nametape archive of commerce and service

Livery, and Who It Belonged To

A servant in livery wore their employer’s colours, cut from the employer’s cloth, on the employer’s account. The garment said whose you were before it said what you did.
A household staff photographed together, a Pullman porter's coat, and a maid's dress with cap