Captain Ginger wrote......"Nah, the stupid clothes are the swirly trousers, silly hats, odd smocks and colour crises worn by the people who follow them around - the sort of things that stay in the bottom drawer until the festival season, when the owners feel compelled to put them on as if to say "I'm a really eccentric free spirit when I'm not teaching/doing IT/selling widgets, I am - and this proves it."
I don't know what Morris he has been watching but the nearest i've seen to that are a handfull of Border/Molly sides that might come close, but the majority of sides have matching & in many cases, sober kit. I can't say that the dancers are sober though.
Cheers
Les