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Notably, especially in older works - ethnicity is sometimes a factor whether or not someone is mistaken for the hired help.

 

== Advertising ==

* [[Rowan Atkinson]]'s ''[[Johnny English]]'' character (an incompetent spy) began life on a series of Barclaycard commercials, one of which had him mistaking an important foreign diplomat for the plumber that Barclaycard had sent to fix the broken toilet.

* In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|The Mountains of Mourning]]'', when Harra first sees Miles he's just returning from a swim, wearing only his trunks and leg braces, and she clearly doesn't know ''who'' he is. Miles entertains the thought that she might think that he's the court jester.

* In one of the ''[[Just William]]'' books, William develops a crush on an actress appearing in pantomime at a theatre near him, and sneaks into her hotel to try and meet her. [[Hilarity Ensues]], including his being mistaken for a laundry delivery boy.

* In ''[[Circle of Magic]]'', Tris is mistaken for a servant and is briefly annoyed before looking down at her nice but plain and sensible dress and understanding why someone might mistake her for a lady's maid.

* In a short story by [[Diana Wynne Jones]] that takes place in the ''[[Chrestomanci]]'' universe, the protagonist and her mother are let in by a plain (to them) woman in fancy attire, and the protagonist's mother whispers that she's "rather extravagantly-dressed for a servant." At the end of the story, the woman is too embarrassed to speak because the woman was Chrestomanci's ''wife.''

* Combined with [[Younger Than They Look]] in ''[[Teacher Trouble]]'' by Alexander McCall Smith, in which a girl starting at a new school is mistaken for a teacher and put in charge of a class.

* In ''[[Septimus Heap]]'', the Guardian of the House Of Foryx mistakes Beetle for being Jenna's servant in ''Queste'', causing a rebuff by Jenna.

 

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