I know this has been probably asked before but what was the general fashion through the 1800s before the Industrial revolution? I've seen it range from Southern Belle, pioneer, Civil war soldier and sometimes cowboy but there have been pictures I've seen where the fashion was almost like that in England at the time. Was it like a regional thing with different fashion styles?
This is actually a pretty huge question, as fashion was constantly changing during the nineteenth century. The styles you're talking about are stereotypes that relate more to pop cultural ideas than actual regional difference.
There is an extensive collection of links to past answers I've written on nineteenth-century fashion in my profile which you may be interested in.