"Common colors on civilian clothing during ECW?" Topic

So I'm about to start my ECW project, and I want my units to be early war, so ragtag cilvian clothing.

What are the commen colors for clothing back then?
I'm guessing browns, blacks and greys? With some more colors full greens, reds and blues?

Colors should look natural . Only vegetable dyes, which faded fast, were used, and poorer people wore cloth which had not been dyed at all. Undyed cloth can be cream, different shades of brown and grey.

Bright blues, reds, yellows and purples were very expensive colors to produce and, unless you are of royal blood or very rich, these colors should be avoided. Duller shades of these colors might be acceptable for the well-to-do man in the street.

Thanks for the anwser.

What about blacks? this was the same period as the pilgrims in the US, and didn't they use black?

Black was an expensive dye in the Early Modern. It's over-represented in 19th century paintings of the Pilgrim Fathers. Russet was a common shade of brown, worn by a lot of common people.

You see a lot of black clothes in paintings precisely because it was expensive. Everyone wants to be seen in their best clothes for posterity.
Blue was a colour often associated with servants – who could be known as "bluecoats" for this reason.
Dull reds, yellows and greens are also readily obtainable from vegetable dies – but see Heislers comment about the fugitive nature of these dies, leading to a general "muddy" colour.

Here is a website I found while researching Lincoln green:

wildcolours.co.uk

It is about dyeing with natural materials, but scattered throughout are some photos of the finished yarns or cloths. You might find it useful as a general notion of what the freshly dyed stuff looked like.

Ron

Grey. In all its shades and tints.

Dyes & Dyeing by M. E. Riley or mirror

Druzhina
Illustrations of Soldiers