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A haberdasher is a person who sells small, commonly used items of clothing via retail. These can include ribbons and buttons or completed accessories such as hats or gloves. A haberdasher's shop or the items sold therein are called haberdashery. The exact definition of haberdasher depends on the locale. In the United States and Canada, it's primarily used for a person who sells men's clothing accessories. In the British Isles, this word is more commonly used to refer to someone who sells buttons, thread, ribbons, or drapery, but the term is much less common now, as fewer people make or mend their own clothing.
   Today in Great Britain, Haberdashery shops are certainly a rare sight. However, KLEINS is an example of a long-established Traditional Specialist Haberdashery Business, that has been trading in London's Soho, since 1936. Also, John Lewis still offer a small selection of Haberdashery Products in some of their department stores.
   Early usage of the term "haberdasher" refers to a retailer of many accessories, including swords, horns, mousetraps, and crucifixes.
   The term may come from the Anglo-Norman word hapertas, meaning petty wares.

Notable haberdashers

Robert Aske - philanthropist
Captain James Cook, (R.N., FRS) - (18th century British navigator and explorer, apprenticed in his youth)
John Graunt - one of the first demographers
Saint Louis IX - King of France in 1215, the patron saint of haberdashers
Joseph Merrick - AKA the Elephant Man worked as a haberdasher before being a freak show act
Paavo Nurmi - legendary Finnish runner
Harry S. Truman - former U.S. President
Johnny Carson - of The Tonight Show
Charles Taze Russell - the founder of the Bible Student Movement
Wayne Knight - actor, man with the "God Damn Butterfingers"
Christopher Lloyd - actor, most famous role: Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy
George Newnes - founders of the Tit-Bits newspaper (1881) and the popular The Strand Magazine, of Sherlock Holmes fame

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