The Ani - yun-wi'ya [the Principle People] fashioned the pattern of their clothing according to their environment, landscape, and in keeping with their dreams and spiritual beliefs. The people dressed in prepared deerskins, until the Europeans arrived and brought woven cloth. Which was much easier to deal with. They then rapidly adapted their clothing from tanned skins to cloth. The people took to European dress to some degree, adapting it to personal taste. The people of the East coast, particularly the south eastern woodlands and gulf, among the elders, wore face hair.

Cherokee and Choctaw veterns of the Civil War - note facial hair of these elders." Tah-Chee here shows a good example of period clothing

Good example of the modern Cherokee womans dress