This article seeks to differentiate by the use of images, newspapers, and police reports, the distinctive political groups under the Thermidorian Convention and the Directory according to their clothing practices and political positions : « Muscadins », « Incroyables », « Merveilleuses », and the « collets » of the year V. The politicization of clothing, already strong in the first years of the Revolution, far from running out of steam, reached its climax during the Directory. The adversaries of the Jacobins, and then of the Directory, increased the political elements in the construction of their appearance by deploying, not cockades, but the usual elements of appearance (hair styles, collars, etc.). The police became concerned about such changes in fashion. The provocative clothing worn by the « Merveilleuses » signaled a freedom of the body and morals all the more easy to condemn as it seemed to symbolize the corruption and the immorality often supposed to be among the defects of the Directory.