hey, all. i've had this idea for a while but it just occurred to me that i should probably get some peer review before i finalize it.
anyway, i read a while back that, when the advent of what we'd call Redcoats first came about (during the English Civil War with the New Model Army, iirc), the red uniforms weren't standardized across the board and different units would have different-colored uniforms based on their leader/organizer's wealth, what was available to them, and even on personal preference, so there would also be, for example, whitecoats, browncoats, bluecoats, purplecoats, and so on
so i wanted to ask: what does everyone think about the plausibility of a different color of uniform becoming standard instead of red?