The women decided to boycott all merchants not from their local community. This is why:
1. The
women have decided to only purchase clothing manufactured in their own
community to support their own economy and their local businesses and workers. :
September 25, 1729 – “That 908 pounds
has been collected in and about the city of Dublin for the poor housekeepers
and weavers. And that a set of ladies of great fortune have made an agreement
among themselves not to wear this winter any cloaths but what should be the
produce and manufacture of this Kingdom. And it was not doubted but that so
laudable an example will be followed by the rest of the quality, both male and
female, by which trade will very probably flourish again and money there once
more circulated amongst the public.” ~ The Caledonian Mercury,
Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept 25, 1729
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