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The ‘revolutionary’ influence of Anglophilia and new English modes of dressing influenced much of Western Europe at the time of the French Revolution. In England many of the tensions around attitudes toward dress and appearances coalesced around the figure of the ‘macaroni’, a type of fop who was prominent in a range of written, visual and theatrical traditions, 1760-1780. England had a tradition of varied clothing types that might indicate party-political, sociable or patriotic affiliations. Whig politician Charles James Fox (1749-1806) provides a case of a particularly significant late-eighteenth century clothing evolution from foppery to deliberate shabbiness. Following the French Revolution, a Burkean reaction restated many older Anglo-French dualities, in which dress and appearances were considered to be expressions of national-character difference.