Susannah Buxton spoke with TIME about why it’s easier to create flattering costumes for a scullery maid than for a countess and the perils of working with vintage clothing.
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The Clothes of Downton Abbey
In advance of the Season Two finale, we take a look at Downton Abbey couture, from Edwardian days to the daze of post-World War I Britain.
Downton Abbey Watch: Mastercheese Theater
Say what you will about Downton Abbey’s melodramatic, overwrought, this-is-just-Dallas-set-on-a-moor twists and turns, but you cannot say that this is a show where nothing ever happens. This week, Julian Fellowes and company …
Downton Abbey Watch: The Ballad of Sad Lady Edith
I think we all know where we have to begin here: Poor Edith. Poor, poor, sad, pathetic, wobbly-chinned Edith. This episode dangled in front of her everything she has always wanted: a romantic future with her cousin (a little …
Downton Abbey Watch: House of Despair
The formula for a cult hit is a tough one to sketch out. Though it seems odd to think of Downton Abbey as anything but a television juggernaut, it wasn’t necessarily destined for iconic status. No one was waiting for an …
Downton Abbey Watch: Missing In Action
If you haven’t heard, World War I is really hot right now. In a full-page editorial in the Sunday New York Times, British novelist William Boyd (who also wrote and directed a movie called The Trench, so we can consider him an …
Downton Abbey Watch: Bayonets Versus Feather Dusters
Last week’s season premiere of Downton Abbey was all about the dissonance between the home front and the real front and how the two worlds could be so closely connected while operating on an entirely separate set of stakes and …
Albatross: Just Call Her Emilia Bad-Elia
Downton Abbey’s Lady Sybil portrays anything but a lady in this coming of age tale.
6 Fun Facts About Downton Abbey’s Highclere Castle
Downton Abbey Watch: Drama and then Somme
The genius of Downton Abbey’s first season was the show’s ability to capture the dizzying claustrophobia of Edwardian life; its idea (props to Upstairs, Downstairs) that one vanilla-frosted house could contain the entire …
TV Weekend: Scenes from the Class Struggle, with Downton Abbey and House of Lies
The Occupy Wall Street movement did not give advance notice to network-TV development executives. So it was probably coincidence, or the work of the zeitgeist, that put on the air this fall shows like Revenge and 2 Broke Girls, …
Take a Video Tour Through the Real Downton Abbey
“This isn’t just a film set — it’s also our home” says Fiona Carnarvon, the countess of Highclere Castle, also known as Downton Abbey.
Downton Abbey Returns to America: Writer Julian Fellowes Tells All
During the first season of Downton Abbey, the aristocratic Crawley family and their busybody servants endured a succession crisis and the death of a Turkish houseguest. But during the second season they face an even greater …