'Upstairs, Downstairs' is a fairly good program depicting the lives of servants and an upper class family at the beginning of the last century.

It is intersting for the costumes and the day to day happenings.

A fund raising pagent was organised, to benefit the Red Cross.

At the dress rehersal, in the drawing room, the organiser requested that Mister Hudson, the butler, and the other staff should show in the audience, which he was perfectly willing to do, however she went too far in suggesting that he should put on a kilt, such as the Highland regiments wear - they had one in the properties box.

The request was politely but firmly declined.

Later on downstairs, Mister Hudson was telling Mrs Bridges (the cook housekeeper) about it, indignant that he had been asked to wear part of a uniform to which he was not entitled, and Mrs Bridges was tut tutting in sympathy.

Mister Hudson is a somewhat 'strait laced' character.

He concluded with 'and anyway it was the wrong tartan!'

It was difficult to tell what tartan it might have been, it was dark and pleated to a white stripe, and the organiser suggested that it was the Black Watch.

Last week there was the brief appearance of an officer in the Seaforths, very smart and terribly youthful.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: