If someone is a person who normally wears a uniform wears plain clothes they are said to be in Mufti attire
Example
Seeking a shore pass, of which he obtained without difficulty, the Sailor changed into mufti and went ashore.
Kecks = trousers/underpants
The sailor changed his kecks before going ashore,
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My old Jalopy…
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It has been a long time since I heard that word. 
Mufti day,when you could go to school in your day to day clothes and not in school uniform.
My dad was Londonborn and bred and used a lot of the rhyming slang, which I picked up and still say, even though no one knows what I’m on about!
So when I say “get that down yer Darby” people tend to look at me sideways and edge away…… 
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In my younger years our ears were called ‘wickers’. 
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Do you say that whilst plying people with “plates of meat”, such as Boiled Beef and Carrots?! 
I’m one of those vegetarians which the song says lives on “food they give to parrots!”
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@Bretrick Minkie. All of my four daughters had that name for their ‘difference’ and to this day I do not know where that came from. Of course, it became passed on to my granddaughters too.
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My brother bought a state of the art mobility scooter some months ago, after selling the car. He always refers to it as his jalopy.
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Absolutely, because that’s the stuff for your Derby Kell!
But “plates of meat” means feet!
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