Some of the regiments had uniforms which gave them a sufficiently smart appearance.

The cocked hat, the loose hunting shirt with its fringed border, the breeches of brown leather or duck, the brown gaiters or leggings, the powdered hair, were familiar marks of the soldier of the Revolution.
During a great part of the war, however, in spite of supplies brought from both lance and the West Indies, Washington found it difficult to secure for his men even decent clothing of any kind, whether of military cut or not.

More than a year after he took command, in the fighting about New York, a great part of his army had no more semblance of uniform than hunting shirts on a common pattern.

In the following December, he wrote of many men as either shivering in garments fit only for summer wear or as entirely naked.

There was a time in the later campaign in the South when hundreds of American soldiers marched stark naked, except for breech cloths.