Hart, Avril and Susan North. Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries. London: V&A Publications, 1998. p. 98 Baumgarten, Linda, What Clothes Reveal. The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America, Yale University Press, 2002, p. 79. A coat made in Massachussetts of red wool broadcloth about 1770. The cut is similar though it has a turn down collar and no decorative finish. Florence Montgomery. Textiles in America 1650-1880, Norton: New York, 1984, pp.177-8. For discussion of British broadcloth.