Question: What kind of costumes were the men wearing at the Boston Tea Party?
About the article "Boston Tea Party", section "Destruction of the tea".

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One of the many taxes protested by the colonists was a tax on tea, imposed when Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, and retained when most of the provisions of those acts were repealed.
With the passage of the Tea Act in 1773, tea sold by the British East India Company would become less expensive than smuggled tea, and there would be reduced profitmaking opportunities for Massachusetts merchants engaged in the tea trade.
This led to protests against the delivery of the company's tea to Boston.
On December 16, 1773, when a tea ship of the East India Company was planning to land taxed tea in Boston, a group of local men known as the Sons of Liberty sneaked onto the boat the night before it was to be unloaded and dumped all the tea into the harbor, an act known as the Boston Tea Party. 
The Intolerable Acts were seen as a collective punishment of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. 
The Boston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest action which presaged the American Revolution.
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While Samuel Adams tried to reassert control of the meeting, people poured out of the Old South Meeting House headed out to prepare to take action.
In some cases, this involved donning what may have been elaborately prepared Mohawk costumes.
While disguising their individual faces was imperative, because of the illegality of their protest, dressing as Mohawk warriors was a very specific and symbolic choice.
It showed that the Sons of Liberty identified with America, over their official status as subjects of Great Britain.
That evening, a group of 30 to 130 men, some dressed in the Mohawk warrior disguises, boarded the three vessels and, over the course of three hours, dumped all 342 chests of tea into the water.
The precise location of the Griffin's Wharf site of the Tea Party has been subject to prolonged uncertainty; a comprehensive study places it near the foot of Hutchinson Street (today's Pearl Street).
In 1767 the Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which placed a tax on a number of essential goods including paper, glass, and tea.
Angered at the tax increases, colonists organized a boycott of British goods.
Meanwhile, riots against trade regulations led to the deployment of British troops to Boston in 1768.
On March 5, 1770 a large mob gathered around a group of British soldiers.
The mob grew more and more threatening, throwing snowballs, rocks and debris at the soldiers.
One soldier was clubbed and fell.
All but one of the soldiers fired into the crowd.
They hit 11 people; three civilians died at the scene of the shooting, and two died after the incident.
The event quickly came to be called the Boston Massacre.
Although the soldiers were tried and acquitted (defended by John Adams), the widespread descriptions soon became propaganda to turn colonial sentiment against the British.
This in turn began a downward spiral in the relationship between Britain and the Province of Massachusetts.
Responding to protests, in 1770 Parliament withdrew all taxes except the tax on tea, giving up its efforts to raise revenue.
This temporarily resolved the crisis and the boycott of British goods largely ceased, with only the more radical patriots such as Samuel Adams continuing to agitate.
[[File:Boston Tea Party Currier colored.jpg|thumb|250px|alt=Two ships in a harbor, one in the distance.
On board, men stripped to the waist and wearing feathers in their hair are throwing crates into the water.
A large crowd, mostly men, is standing on the dock, waving hats and cheering.
A few people wave their hats from windows in a nearby building.|This 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor"; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard.
]]In June 1772, in what became known as the "Gaspée" Affair, American patriots including John Brown burned a British warship that had been vigorously enforcing unpopular trade regulations.
About a year later, private letters were published in which Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson called for the abridgement of colonial rights, and Lieutenant Governor Andrew Oliver called for the direct payment of colonial officials (until then the purview of the colonial assembly, and a means by which it controlled the governor).
The furor over the affair contributed to Hutchinson's recall, and brought a conciliatory Benjamin Franklin firmly to the side of the colonists.
In late 1772 Samuel Adams in Boston set about creating new Committees of Correspondence, which linked Patriots in all 13 colonies and eventually provided the framework for a rebel government.
In early 1773 Virginia, the largest colony, set up its Committee of Correspondence, on which Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson served.
A total of about 7000 to 8000 Patriots served on "Committees of Correspondence" at the colonial and local levels, comprising most of the leadership in their communities — Loyalists were excluded.
The committees became the leaders of the American resistance to British actions, and largely determined the war effort at the state and local level.
When the First Continental Congress decided to boycott British products, the colonial and local Committees took charge, examining merchant records and publishing the names of merchants who attempted to defy the boycott by importing British goods.
In 1773 Parliament decided to lower the price of tea in order to undersell smuggled Dutch tea.
Special consignees were appointed to sell the tea in order to bypass colonial merchants.
In most instances the consignees were forced to resign and the tea was turned back, but Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to give into pressure.
In Boston on December 16, 1773 a group of men, led by Samuel Adams and dressed to evoke American Indians, boarded the ships of the government-favored British East India Company and dumped an estimated £10,000 worth of tea from their holds (approximately £636,000 in 2008) into Boston Harbor.
This event became known as the Boston Tea Party and remains a significant part of American patriotic lore.