In article , Colin
writes
A strange, unusual request I know, but ...

I am attending a 'Murder Mystery Suspense' event on Saturday and just
found out I must dress the part and for the period, as a gardener, to
a Lord and Lady of a Manor in the year 1935.

Cloth cap, pipe and carrying a watering can? My imagination does not
stretch very far! I tried a costume hire shop but they had not much
idea. Any ideas of what I might wear (and how easily I might get hold
of it quickly) would be much appreciated.

I know this is not quite what URG is really about but hope folk can
help me out here!

Adam the Gardener was pictured doing his job every week in the Sunday
Express in those days. A recent Annual of the series shows him wearing a
battered trilby hat, a short black waistcoat never buttoned up at the
front and with a stripy or shiny panel at the back, a loosely tied
'bandana' kerchief or neck-scarf, a white (or off-white) shirt with the
sleeves always rolled up to the elbows, baggy nondescript trousers held
by a buckled belt and tied just below the knees, sturdy lace-up boots
and a black band always on his right wrist. He has a whitish neatly
trimmed beard and he never seems to wear gloves or topcoat. He doesn't
smoke in any of the pictures shown.
--
Alan Gould