I shall keep an eye out on Tuesday ☺️

Bloomsbury academic has uk, USA, Canada, AU/NZ websites & shipping. It doesn’t ship to mainland Europe/Asia. Unless ppl ask local bookstores to stock it (unlikely given it’s not a popular history book), yes it’s a lot of ppls only option. This is what I’ve been directly told by European readers

Yay!! Can’t wait to read it!

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Authors not receiving enough free copies of their books has a long history I see!! 😅

Well that’s the thing right, scholarship moves on and we all make mistakes / misinterpret things based on evidence we had at the time. At some point it does need to be corrected! Really looking forward to reading your book!

Hahaha exactly!!

Don’t be worried! It’s widely accepted by dress historians that by 1600 English sumpt laws were ignored. The fact that they a) had to remind ppl of them so often tells us they weren’t following & b) the anxieties about dress in literary texts reflects the fact that ppl were doing what they wanted

No worries!

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I know there’s been work done on dress in the Jamestown colony for the living history museum that’s there too which might also be useful given that you’re dealing with English colonies of the early 17thc

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And garments were not restricted to certain classes - so a doublet is a doublet regardless of if it’s the king or a merchant wearing it. It’s usually fabrics and trims, as well as how up to date with fashions (usually coming from the continent) the construction/style is that indicate status.
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You could use these resources in addition to those that go over more elite dress to get an idea of what garments were worn and what they would have looked like.
In England, sumptuary legislation was rarely followed or enforced (and certainly by the reign of James I was pretty much forgotten)
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Clothing of the Common sorts (which does also cover middling and lower gentry) by Margaret Spufford and Susan Mee is also a really invaluable resource and also based on probate records:

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I think someone has already mentioned the Tudor Tailors, but their new book gives really thorough breakdowns of clothing worn in that era based off probate data:

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Susan Vincent’s Dressing the Elite has a good overview of styles for men and women, and Aileen Ribeiro’s Fashion and Fiction is also great. Maria Hayward’s Stuart style also good for elite dress.
What social sorts are you interested in?