…the period covering the Revolutionary War and was known as the “Late Colonial Fashion Period”. As with fashion today, there was no exact line that was crossed saying when one Era started and another began. Some women liked to keep their favorite clothing and wore it long after it went out of style, while others wanted to be right on top of what was new and fashionable.
(Photos: In the movie “Pride and Prejudice” which takes place in England in the Regency Era of the early 1800’s, the young daughters wear the latest and bare “little white dress” while the mother clings to her old fichu, heavier fabrics, and cap of the prior fashion era. What women really wore had a lot to do with the ability to afford new fashion as well as how fashionable she wanted to be, or how modest or immodest in the case of early Regency fashion)