Anyone out there counting down the days till the American premiere of Season 3 of Downton Abbey? Perhaps, if you are a true Downton Abbey nerd you have already seen it by illegally downloading the eps from Britain. I won't tell, I just wish you would've shown me how!
It is an amazing series, with the gripping drama of a soap opera, but the classiness and educational aspect of a Masterpiece Classics show. And oh, the costumes...The costumes are amazing. Well for the upstairs folk anyways!
The show follows two sides of a household: the rich family and the servants who serve them. It strives to be historically accurate so the actors are actually wearing all the corsets and ridiculous undergarments befitting the time. I overheard a few of the actors interviewed on Morning Edition this past week talk about the costumes...
Joanne Froggatt (who plays Anna): "For the ladies, in Seasons 1 and 2, the corsets were very, very restrictive, very tight. So after 12 hours in one, you were really desperate to get it off and go home and put your jeans on. And I don't know how, as the housemaids, these girls did manual labor in these things. Because you can't bend in them. It's difficult to tie your shoelaces in one."
I know the whole lace apron thing is kind of silly, but I love, love, love the little lace collars on the maid's dresses!
Carter (who plays Carson the Butler): "The costumes, whilst they're uncomfortable to wear, they do dictate how you stand, how you behave. You can't slouch; you can't be relaxed in those costumes. And we have to remember at all times it was a very formal era; chair-backs were not for your back to rest on, they were for servants to pull out. You never slumped; you're always at attention."
Anyways, if you haven't seen it, you still have all of today to catch up on seasons 1&2 before tomorrow's premiere.
Want to test your
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/28/168212819/quiz-are-you-down-with-downton
Here's me pretending I'm the Dowager Countess out for a stroll on the grounds of Downton:
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