00:00Hi, I'm Michelle Dockery and I'm Loretta Michael.
00:02We're going to see if we can guess the cast member based on who wore it.
00:07Let's see how we do.
00:14Ooh, you'll read that.
00:16Lady Mary.
00:16That's in the first movie.
00:18The first movie.
00:19It's a good one.
00:21This piece was for the big ballroom scene at the end of the film.
00:25It's also the scene between Mary and Violet when Violet tells Mary that she's not very well.
00:32This actually started as a short dress, which was then, which is original.
00:39And so it's from 1928 or something.
00:42And then Anna Robbins has the rest of it made to make it floor length.
00:46It was absolutely beautiful.
00:47And I loved it. It's one of my favorites.
00:50Oh, that's my wedding dress.
00:52Oh, no, no, my wedding dress.
00:53That was also from that ball in the first movie.
00:59Yeah.
01:00And this was the dress that didn't arrive on time.
01:03So we had to make a big version of it.
01:05Oh, yeah.
01:06And then a detailed version.
01:10So yeah, this felt like an ongoing process of layering different fabrics to get that print.
01:16And that tiara was amazing, wasn't it?
01:18Good tiara.
01:19A little crown.
01:21Ooh.
01:21That's Laura Haddock.
01:22It is.
01:23Yeah, that's Myrna.
01:25Yeah.
01:26In this movie, when the gorgeous Myrna Dad reached down to, I think it was her old rival.
01:32And she's stepping out of the car.
01:34Her costumes really represented the Hollywood glamour.
01:38So there was lots of fur and silky fabrics.
01:43And shorter and more loose.
01:47But I think it's so sexy, actually.
01:49Yeah, beautiful.
01:50And she has that little kind of platinum blonde sort of monroe pair, doesn't she?
01:56Okay.
01:57That's me.
01:57That's you.
01:58That's from this movie.
02:00Well, I think I probably wore it in the first one as well.
02:03Yeah.
02:03Sometimes we wear the same things.
02:08But this is, I think this is a scene where Mary is doing the voice of Myrna.
02:16Yeah.
02:16Yeah.
02:16It felt like on my microphone.
02:18Yeah.
02:19Nice day look.
02:20So this is a day, this is day wear.
02:23And Anna wanted this to be a sort of Chanel, a kind of Coco Chanel look.
02:28So it has the double pearls and the beautiful neckline, which was actually this, this costume
02:37started with just that one piece and then everything was made.
02:41So she can start with a really small detail and work her way down.
02:46But this is one of my favourites.
02:47I loved it.
02:49Oh, yes.
02:50And this is me in South France.
02:52This is one of my favourite outfits.
02:54I think I've ever worn.
02:57It's like a kimono, a boat shirt or something.
03:02And yeah, that's an original, I think.
03:06And then we made the silk pants.
03:09It really was, you know, right for the, for the climate.
03:13It was cool and blurry.
03:14But yeah, we got to wear trousers and, and yet break away from the kind of stiffer world
03:20of dancing.
03:21I think we got, you know, go a bit further into the, the newer trends.
03:26But sometimes we, we can't go that far when we're at the house.
03:29The characters we play, this is quite held.
03:33So yeah, this was a chance of break away and showing some of the more daring 24th.
03:39Correct.
03:40Yeah.
03:41Isn't that the one you were on the poster as well?
03:43Yeah.
03:44Gorgeous.
03:45And the headscarves.
03:46That's something that Mary doesn't really wear.
03:48It's not part of her wardrobe.
03:50It's very much Edith.
03:51Accessories.
03:54Ooh.
03:54Is that Cora?
03:55I think it might be Cora.
03:57Yeah.
03:58Oh, I know.
03:58It's in this film.
03:59Yeah.
04:00So I think it's a dinner scene.
04:02Or a drawing room scene.
04:04And I think maybe she may be worn it in the first film actually.
04:06Some of these dresses that we carried through and wanted to keep.
04:11And some of it that felt like continuity and then went to Japan.
04:13Yeah.
04:14It's got like a cape.
04:15Yeah.
04:15Some of it's like a cloak.
04:17Yeah.
04:18Cora.
04:20Oh, that's Lily.
04:23So that was, that was the debutant.
04:26So that's Lily James.
04:28Who plays Rose.
04:30Yeah.
04:30And it was this, um, specific design where the hips, sort of, there's sort of padding
04:36in the hips.
04:38Yeah.
04:38Um, that creates this kind of little bell skirt.
04:41It's super cute.
04:42I remember Lily was like letting love it.
04:44It was gorgeous.
04:46It was so cute.
04:46And it was a ballroom scene and she danced with the Prince.
04:50Um, and it was very glamorous that episode.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Because there was the Royals and so the costumes were quite elaborate.
04:58It was such a, like, silhouette of that moment isn't it?
05:01So specific to the time to have that drop waist.
05:04It's amazing.
05:07That's me.
05:07Ah, that's your Fortuny.
05:08That's the Fortuny, which was the most stunning dress I've ever worn.
05:14Um, which was made, um, by Fortuny for the first film.
05:20Um, especially on the poster as well.
05:21But it was kind of like this concertina.
05:24It's actually, it's amazing because it's huge.
05:27But then when you put it on, it kind of goes.
05:30They're like the only space, the only house that make it, aren't they?
05:34Yeah.
05:34Sort of concertina fabric.
05:36And would've at the time.
05:37So it was really special to, to have one of those pieces.
05:41And then she layered Anna Robbins up.
05:44She was a designer.
05:45Layered it with lots of pieces of jewelry, which I loved.
05:48It was fully in the fitting.
05:49She'd gotten one and then she was like, no, it needs another one.
05:52And another one.
05:53And then the lines are varying about four of them to see something.
05:55But yeah, it was absolutely beautiful.
05:57One of my favorites.
05:59Ah, that's Cora.
06:00The first season.
06:02Yeah.
06:02I love this.
06:03I forget how gorgeous those early years were.
06:07So this would've been the Edwardian period.
06:12Yeah.
06:12And Cora, you know, with the designers, they were always really conscious of the newness of
06:18the time.
06:19And then we put that on the mother of the family.
06:22So we often are wearing the sort of fashions that look a bit later.
06:27This to me feels, you know, so early compared to where we get to.
06:31Corsets.
06:32With the higher notes.
06:34Yeah.
06:35And then more like violet shape that violet wears from that, from that period.
06:40And I remember thinking that Elizabeth looked like Eliza Doolittle.
06:43Yeah.
06:44In this outfit.
06:45And that hat.
06:46That was the flower show.
06:47Yeah.
06:48Isn't it?
06:49It was.
06:49And we had beautiful hats.
06:51Yeah.
06:51I kind of missed that period.
06:53But that's for the hats.
06:54We had fabulous hats.
06:56It's like a painting.
06:59Ah, that's, so that's season two.
07:03And that's when Matthew is coming home and the house has become a convalescent home.
07:12I think this was partly made.
07:14So it's, it was French lace and it had like a lilac silk.
07:18So.
07:19And it's.
07:20Underneath.
07:21Yeah.
07:24I actually remember those pearls.
07:27When at the dining room scene did quite a lot.
07:29I remember this went into the dining room scene.
07:30And I think this was the costume I was wearing when I was sort of playing with my beads, just
07:36sort of fidgeting with them.
07:38And then the hook, the hook came off and all the beads just went.
07:43Onto the floor.
07:44And then of course the continuity, we had to fix the necklace before we started filming again.
07:51So they had to put beads on piece by piece.
07:54I felt awful.
07:55But I love that period.
07:57And that was, you know, during the war time.
07:59So there was a lot of black and lilac.
08:02There was a lot of, you know, mourning for, for the lost soldiers.
08:07And so there was a real, you know, those colours were kind of, we were wearing those quite often.
08:13Yeah.
08:14But I love, and I love the hair in this series.
08:16It's very different.
08:18Thanks so much for watching.
08:20Until next time, we walk back.
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