For several years, Virginia Tech has required, for a clothing and textiles course, the book Brown Ready-to-Wear Apparel Analysis, a hardbound textbook that sold for Spring 2003 term, new $58.50/used $43.85. For the Fall 2003 term, the bookstores received an order for a "custom" version of the Ready-to-Wear textbook. When the book finally arrived it was packaged with a writing manual. All freshman at Tech have to buy a custom version of this same writing manual. By bundling it with a clothing textile textbook, it increased the cost to students by $62.35.