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A haberdasher is a person who sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, ribbons and zippers. In U.S. English, haberdasher is another term for a men's outfitter.
A haberdasher's shop or the items sold therein are called haberdashery.
Obsolete meanings of the term "haberdasher" refer to a "dealer in, or maker of, hats and caps".
The term may come from the Anglo-French word hapertas, meaning petty wares.
Saint Louis IX, King of France 1226–1270, is the patron saint of haberdashers.
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
- Joseph Merrick, "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, most famous role: "Newman" from Seinfield
- 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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