Extraordinary tale!!
I shall be wearing a suit!!
Maybe I should join up and get a uniform!
I could lend you my mess kit. it is a dashing shade of red
That'll be wine coloured then?
Actually (I do love that word) Actually, the story goes that the colour red was chosen to disguise the blood splatters from the act of ripping out the live beating heart of your enemy. Blood on your uniform unsettled the chaps and horses who if the saw the blood feared hat you might be injured . I can vouch for that having being involved in unarmed combat with a tin of tuna and cutting my thumb quite badly.