In the land of the anachronistic potato
Read today in the newspaper a review of "Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant" (by Jeremy Musson, if you want to read the whole thing yourself), which contains the following gem:
"For extra colour, Musson fillets John Russell's much-recycled Book of Nurture (c1460) for its reminders to servants about not picking your nose or spitting in the soup. The reward for this restraint was, by the Tudor period, a spruce uniform in shout-out colours which announced to the world that you were connected and protected."
So my first thought, obviously, was that there is at least some historic evidence for that uniform and that hat, even if it is from the wrong period. Ha, maybe it should be "In a land of where we pick and mix our cultural references and pilfer anything that sounds vaguely interesting and historic..."