As a red-blooded Englishman, I feel it's worth pointing out that in their so-called revolution, the revolting French, to distinguish themselves from the reactionaries, went around with no trousers on; they called themselves sans-coullottes. Not the sort of behaviour that respectable middle-class English gents in the 18th C would have indulged in!

I believe the American revolutionaries were all properly dressed, apart from the Boston Tea-party.

Steve