“Steeple hats and ‘sadd colors’ were typical of Puritan dress ways. Both men and women in New England did actually wear the broad-brimmed steeple hats of legend, historical revisionists notwithstanding.”
“A list of these ‘sadd colors’ in 1638 included ‘liver color, de Boys, tawny, russet, purple, French green, ginger lyne, deer colour, orange.'” Also, puce, Lincoln green, and philly mort (the color of a dead leaf).
Black “was reserved for the ruling elders and the governing elite.”
The above information: David H. Fischer, Albion’s Seed, pp. 140, 142.
