My scanner is being totally evil so I haven't managed to scan pics in yet, but the stockings were often pattern-knit or striped: hooray for Emo- it means you can now get vertical and horizontal striped knee-length socks all over the place. (historically, if silk, the silk would have been the knitted silk (I don't know the technical term, but not sheer like 20thc nylons): men would also wear full length tights under culottes (bear in mind elastic wasn't round yet, so stockings were then held up with suspenders at the knee, so I suppose in winter tights were more comfy and warmer). A modern woman's winter tights with a herringbone or more elaborate pattern may do. And culottes/pedal pushers or whatever they're called at the mo: you could stitch three buttons or a buckle to the outside of the knee for a more 18thc look, though some I bought recently from a high-stree shop were like that already (it's the Pirates of the Carribean influence, I suppose).
It was more fashionable to wear long trousers with boots, though. Robespierre's dress was curiously old-fashioned, given his politics: one bitch said he looked like 'an ancien regime tailor', another - a friend - that he wore 'clothes from another age'. Desmoulins and Saint-Just were more up to the minute. I suppose if he's in a bath, your Marat will be wearing nothing but a head towel and a smile (if you drape a white sheet over the cardboard box bathtub it'll look fine (medicinal baths were sometimes lined with a sheet)!
On coats/jackets, an army surplus military greatcoat, the sort that's double breasted so you can fold back the collar into two triangles, if you see what I mean, would look ok - but it'd be heavy, specially for summer. Last winter, in the UK at least, there were a lot of coats with a 1790-1820 look: outsize buttons, double breasted with the top buttons undone and the flaps folded back, and the style was also revived in the late 60's/early 70's (I've got a couple of coats that are pretty well 1790's replicas from the 1970's - very tight fitting, specially the arms.)
If you have it, take a look at A Series of Unfortunate Events: Count Olaf's whole outfit, in the first part of the film, looks suspiciously like Robespierre's striped number!
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It was more fashionable to wear long trousers with boots, though. Robespierre's dress was curiously old-fashioned, given his politics: one bitch said he looked like 'an ancien regime tailor', another - a friend - that he wore 'clothes from another age'. Desmoulins and Saint-Just were more up to the minute. I suppose if he's in a bath, your Marat will be wearing nothing but a head towel and a smile (if you drape a white sheet over the cardboard box bathtub it'll look fine (medicinal baths were sometimes lined with a sheet)!
On coats/jackets, an army surplus military greatcoat, the sort that's double breasted so you can fold back the collar into two triangles, if you see what I mean, would look ok - but it'd be heavy, specially for summer. Last winter, in the UK at least, there were a lot of coats with a 1790-1820 look: outsize buttons, double breasted with the top buttons undone and the flaps folded back, and the style was also revived in the late 60's/early 70's (I've got a couple of coats that are pretty well 1790's replicas from the 1970's - very tight fitting, specially the arms.)
If you have it, take a look at A Series of Unfortunate Events: Count Olaf's whole outfit, in the first part of the film, looks suspiciously like Robespierre's striped number!