Quote Originally Posted by bookish View Post

I would hope that there are still many examples throughout the ages of the common person's clothes. Finding preserved clothes from ages past seems like it would be the result of luck, more than anything else. The cost of analyzing and dating garments seems prohibitive for common clothes. I am thinking, here, about Peter MacDonald's talk at the V&A Dundee last year regarding dating the Glen Affric tartan. Perhaps this also offers hope — that there is a garment in a collection somewhere just waiting for the opportunity to be discovered and celebrated.
The Arnish Moor burial is one example of an ordinary person's clothing.

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