Leading Scottish fashion expert Lynne Coleman explores the country’s rich cultural impact on the modern world in this well illustrated little book, telling the tales of the cloth that cover continents and how they have woven themselves into political and economic movements.

No matter what style tribe you subscribe to it shows how it all starts in Scotland, from ‘gallus’ and ‘peely-wally’, to Ralph Lauren’s ‘preppy chic’. Whoever you are, however you dress, you will always have a piece of Scotland with you - even if it’s only in your wellies!