What they wore during the Revolutionary War?
In the progressing countries, everyone wore the same thing, according to their status, upper class to almost aristocratic families here lived up to the wealthy sumptuousness of general Europe, while lower classes were on a more plainer level. In a nutshell, France was always the leader of fashion up until about 1790-ish. Their style was generally typified by a frivolous, playful manipulation of color and figure, and these might have found an echo in America, so distant from the other countries that fawned upon their neighbor influence in Europe. However, it was more of an English fashion that we here adopted, i.e. the (commonly) more conservative choice of color and form. For men and especially women, dress was always a big part that defined who you were, your social standing, how important or rich you were, etc. For the ladies, there were differing gowns (called by it’s fashionable French name, la robe) throughout the 18th century, the lovely plaited Watteau— also known as the robe à
