They would pal well with slouchy jeans, a cashmere sweater and a rich-as-Croesus cup of hot chocolate.

With the cast members wearing contemporary clothes — conservative suits or slouchy casual wear, depending on their class — the time, clearly, is now; the place, America.

When Grant came to Washington to take overall command of the Union armies in early 1864, he struck one officer as “stumpy, unmilitary, slouchy.”