Slop (clothing)

Not to be confused with AI slop.

In 16th to 19th century Europe and North America, the slop trade was the manufacture and sale of slop, cheap ready-made clothing.

Slop was made by slop-workers and sold in slop-shops by slop-sellers. An anonymous tract Slop-Shops and Slop Workers described working conditions in the industry. By around 1850 the production of slop garments was being identified with the sweating system, a neologism of that period.

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