Costume help - history experts?

[Ameriscot2005]

I'm making a costume for DS's school play - The Pepys' Show, about the Great Fire of London.

I've bought a paper pattern from Simplicity's Renaissance range, so I should be OK there. The question I have is there a specific colour I should be using for the pantaloons and waistcoat. He is going to be playing the baker. I am drawn towards using dark brown or something similarly boring, but I was wondering if this would be authentic. Can I get away with brighter colours?

Thanks for any help - Google useless for this one

here's a link showing colours available in Elizabethan (16C) times, so should be relevant for 17C too.

Remember that dye was expensive so poor people couldn't afford it. I used to do the Sealed Knot, so have made a few costumes in my time

here

and a load of blurb here

Thanks for these links, Iota, they are very helpful.

I will probably make the breeches either blue or green (from one of those palettes), depending on what our local (tiny) fabric shop has.