Haberdasher
During the 19th century, a haberdashery used to refer to a store that specializes in articles for sewing and knitting, such as buttons, zips, fabrics and ribbons. A haberdasher was the retailer who sold the knitting items. The term was most commonly used in the UK, while in the US, a haberdashery referred to a retail stores that sells men’s clothing items.
These stores were quite popular back in the day, but with time, as large retail stores and arts and crafts store started selling the same knitting and sewing articles, the haberdasheries slowly vanished from the view. There’s no need for haberdashers in today’s world, and the term that was first introduced in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is no longer in use.