Description: Analysis of accounts disbursed by the royal treasury, alongside text and translation in excerpt, provides richly detailed information on clothing at the time.
Brief description: MELANIE SCHUESSLER BOND is the Professor of Costume Design at Eastern Michigan University.
Review Quotes: This book is an invaluable resource, and not just for students and scholars of fashion. Attention to textile orders provides significant data on personal relationships and trading networks. Through the study of garments, Schuessler Bond illuminates everyday life in sixteenth-century Scotland.--Jenna Schultz "SCOTIA: INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF SCOTTISH"