Awesome Website for the historical re enactor....

[le Voyageur]

 

Here's the place to get that persona right....

 

https://www.reconstructinghistory.com/patterns.php?c=1&w=38&r=Y

 

and, for those interested in capotes, here's what a "correct" capote looks like....

 

http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/popups/artifacts.do?shortName=capot

 

 

[Eagle92]

Thanks for the post. Well one of my buttons, ok toggle, can stay YEAH! Out of curiosity when did fringe become popular, 1830s?

[le Voyageur]

I'm no expert on fringe, but my best guess would be the late 19th century with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. If someone has sources for an earlier date, I'm interested.(This message has been edited by Le Voyageur)

[Hal_Crawford]

Voyageur:

Among other things, I supervise a theatrical costume shop. Our costumer often orders period shirts and the like from Jas. Townsend and Son

 

http://jas-townsend.com/

 

They show fringe (though perhaps not the fringe you're thinking of) on hunting frocks from 18th century through Mexican American War. Can't lay my hands on any of my costume history books at the moment but I think that is correct.

 

Colonial Williamsburg shows a similar fringe on a hunting shirt but they acknowledge that the design is largely conjectural (http://www.history.org/History/clothing/men/mglossary.cfm)

 

Hal