Dressing Downton: Series 5 Episode 6
Oh, poor Edith. We all knew it was coming (and she knew too, not that it makes the tragedy less painful), but I think the Crawley family's collective callousness caught...
Dressing Downton, Season 5 Episode 1
A fair bit happened in this episode: we got Farmer Drew going above and beyond to help keep Edith's babydrama a secret, more chatter about Mary's and Isobel's love and...
Dressing Downton: 2013 Christmas Special
For an episode that turned out (for me, anyway) to be a tad dull, we have a lot of ground to cover, costume-wise. First, our season's signature colours of blue...
Dressing Downton: Season 4, Episode 8
Well, here it is, we've come (nearly) to the end of another season. It's not terribly surprising that, in a season pretty much dominated by two colours, blue and purple,...
Dressing Downton: Season 4 Episode 7
Although there was some movement on the Branson front (we all know we're going to see that woman from the speech again, right?), this episode was really about the women....
Dressing Downton: Season 4 Episode 6
We're getting close to the end of the season, which means a lot of what can be said about the costumes has been said and I'm at risk of sounding...
Dressing Downton: Season 4, Episode 5
For the upstairs folk, this episode was a fair bit about reconciliation and people coming together in general (except where Violet and Isobel were concerned, and we'll get to that),...
Dressing Downton: Season 4, Episode 4
There weren't quite so many striking looks this week, which was slightly quieter after the upheaval of last, but there were definitely a few things I noticed: Characters developing 'signature'...
Dressing Downton: Series 4, Episode 3
I feel a little strange just jumping into a post that's essentially all 'pretty clothes!' without talking a little bit about what happened this week. I've had a few more...
Dressing Downton: Season 4, Episode 2
We have colour again! Now that most of the household has moved past the 6-month mourning period, they get to wear clothes that don't make you want to fall asleep...