The hunting shirt is the most American garment of the Revolutionary War. Long, loose-fitting, fringed, and modeled on the practical dress of the eighteenth-century North American frontier, it opened down the front and belted at the waist to form a natural pouch for tobacco, food, or whatever a man on the move was carrying. The cape across the shoulders was decorative — for show, not weather. The fringe along the seams and cape edge borrowed openly from the dress of eastern woodland tribes. George Washington was the garment's most consequential advocate. In a 1776 general order he wrote that the hunting shirt "carries no small terror to the enemy, who think every such person a complete marksman," and recommended its adoption as Continental field dress. The Continental Army never fully standardized on it, but enough Virginia and southern regiments wore it through the war that the look became one of the visual signatures of the Revolution.

This figure shows a Continental Line soldier in the standing alert position — musket at the carry, body upright and watchful — wearing the hunting shirt over white breeches, with the standard belted kit. He works as a single-figure rifleman in any Revolutionary War display, and pairs naturally with the other W. Britain Revolutionary figures Breagans carries — General Washington Mounted, Alexander Hamilton 1783, and the 1st American Regiment Ensign — for a Continental Army vignette.

1/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16137. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.