Domestic workers

 High fashion? Wearing my Stretch Arts volunteer T-Shirt;

Here's me at my school cleaning job this morning. 

At St Luke's I clean the Hall once a week.

Lets have a look at the types of historical domestic workers there are / were.

• Au pair – A foreign-national domestic assistant working for and living as part of, a host family.
• Amanuensis – A person employed to write or type what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
• Ayah – A job that is similar to a nanny's.
• Babysitter – A worker who minds the children of someone else.
• Bedder / bedmaker – A worker who makes the beds.
• Between maid – An in-between maid whose duties are half in the reception rooms and half in the kitchen.
• Bodyguard – A worker who protects his employer.
• Boot boy – A young male servant, employed mostly to perform footwear maintenance and minor auxiliary tasks.
• Butler – A senior employee usually found in larger households, almost invariably a man, whose duties traditionally include overseeing the wine cellar, the silverware and some oversight of the other, usually male, servants.
• Chambermaid – A maid whose chief focus is on cleaning and maintaining bedrooms, ensuring fires are lit in fireplaces when needed, and supplying hot water.
• Charwoman (AKA Char) – A female house or office cleaner, usually part-time.
• Chauffeur – A personal driver (for motor vehicles).
• Cleaner – A worker who cleans homes, institutions or commercial premises.
• Cook – This is either a cook who works alone or the head of a team of cooks who work for their employer.
• Dog walker – A worker who walks dogs.
• Footman – A lower-ranking manservant.
• Gardener – A worker who tends to the garden.
• Governess – A woman teacher for children.
• Groundskeeper – A worker who tends to the person's large property.
• Hall boy – The lowest ranking male servant who is usually found only in large households.
• Handyman – A worker who handles household repairs.
• Horse trainer – A worker who trains the horses for those who own them.
• Houseboy – A worker who does personal chores.
• Housekeeper – A housekeeper usually denotes a female senior employee.
• Kitchen maid – A worker who works for the cook.
• Lackey – A runner who may be overworked and underpaid.
• Lady's maid – A woman's personal attendant, helping her with her clothes, shoes, accessories, hair, and cosmetics.
• Laundress – A laundry servant.
• Maid (AKA Housemaid) – Female servants who do the typical duties.^{[clarification needed]}
• Majordomo – The senior-most staff member of a very large household or stately home. See also Seneschal.
• Masseur/Masseuse – A servant who performs massages.
• Nanny (AKA nurse) – A woman who takes care of infants and children.
• Nursemaid (AKA Nursery maid) – A maid who oversees the nursery.
• Personal shopper – A person who does the shopping.
• Personal trainer – A worker who trains their employer in fitness, swimming, and sports.
• Pool person – A worker who works by the swimming pool.
• Retainer – A servant, especially one who has been with one family for a long time (chiefly British English).^[67]
• Scullery maid – The lowest-ranking of the domestic workers who act as assistants to the kitchen maid.
• Stable boy – A worker who handles the management of the horses and the stables.
• Valet – Known as the "gentleman's gentleman", a valet is responsible for the master's wardrobe and assisting him in dressing, shaving, etc. In the armed forces, some officers have a soldier (in the British army called a batman) for such duties.
• Wet nurse – A nurse who provides suckling for infants if mothers cannot or do not wish to do so themselves.

That's alot! Here's me on my way home from a house clean in Rockingham.

I was thinking about the formal black and white uniform. Its worn by people in many other occupations; priests, police, prisoner, nurse, sailor or ships captain and football umpire.