Just been to the bakery where I couldn't help but notice that many householders allow their staff to dress "casually".
Is this the norm now?
Amongst the clientele (none of whom showed any deference towards I, whatsoever) were a houseboy in ill-fitting, unbelted trousers, what was presumably a chauffer (surely not a butler and most undoubtedly no valet, according to my definition of the word) who, to my horror, went hatless. Hatless!!
Most alarmingly, a common housemaid, attired in gentleman's nightclothes (cheap pyjamas not unlike those you'd have fetched from Harrods as a gamekeeper's Christmas token) stridently refused my generous offer of a guinea for her favours!
By the by, there were also a menagerie of flies, rats and squirrels afoot. Is that healthy?
Is this the norm now?
Amongst the clientele (none of whom showed any deference towards I, whatsoever) were a houseboy in ill-fitting, unbelted trousers, what was presumably a chauffer (surely not a butler and most undoubtedly no valet, according to my definition of the word) who, to my horror, went hatless. Hatless!!
Most alarmingly, a common housemaid, attired in gentleman's nightclothes (cheap pyjamas not unlike those you'd have fetched from Harrods as a gamekeeper's Christmas token) stridently refused my generous offer of a guinea for her favours!
By the by, there were also a menagerie of flies, rats and squirrels afoot. Is that healthy?
