Chaucer and costume

"This book presents a literary analysis of the meanings inherent in the costomes of Chaucer's secular pilgrims, illuminating their (non)conformity in their dress to fourteenth-century occupational, socio-political and religious norms. The author discusses the significance of individual fabrics, dyes, accessories, garments, and assembled costumes, and explains technical details and specialist vocabularies for cloth-making, clothing, accessories and armor, drawing on a wealth of contemporary evidence including wills, household inventories, wardrobe accounts, manuscript illuminations and church decoration."--BOOK JACKET.