Adult British Redcoat Fancy Dress Costume Mens, Revolutionary War Halloween Outfit, Historical Colonial Jacket for Theater

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A contemporary comment on the New Model Army dated 7 May 1645 stated "the men are Redcoats all, the whole army only are distinguished by the several facings of their coats".

Redcoat is the brilliant story of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900, based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them.

Y. Carman traces in considerable detail the slow evolution of red as the English soldier's colour, from the Tudors to the Stuarts. During the 18th century the weapon of choice was the Brown Bess musket which had been used by the army since the 1730s. However some regiments were subsequently able to obtain the reintroduction of historic facing colours that had been uniquely theirs. The drums platoon of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), leading the regiment, with its colours, through Erquinghem-Lys, France to the Town Hall to receive the keys to the town in 2005. The British military authorities were more practical in their considerations than their French counterparts, who incurred heavy casualties by retaining highly visible blue coats and red trousers for active service [69] until several months into World War I.

This was in part a reaction to the constant gambling, whoring, drinking, and brawling that British soldiers participated in due to a variety of reasons.The formation of the first English standing army ( Parliamentarian New Model Army in 1645) saw red clothing as the standard dress. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Ejército Libertador (the Army of Liberation), inherited from the British Legion the red hussar cavalry uniforms used by the Company of Honor Guard of the Liberator Simon Bolivar.