The Daily Life Of The Miss Nobles: get up at half past nine every day to eat, the ladies need to wear an elegant long dress. The material is usually velvet or silk, no too much decoration. After breakfast, they will choose to dress up according to the day’s activities, or take a walk outdoors, or sit in the garden, or go horseback hunting, or shop in the town, and change clothes with the help of the maid. When you drink tea, you need to wear a sophisticated tea party dress, then wear a gorgeous evening dress and wear jewelry to prepare to attend a dinner party. For Miss nobles, the same dress cannot be worn twice, so in 4 days, 16 sets of dresses need to be prepared.
In the movie “The Wings Of The Dove,” the heroine and the rich girl go to Venice and snobbish aunt wants to let her marry a wealthy person and reminds her to carry more jewels when she travels, lest she looks like a maid.
However, the Miss in “Downton Abbey”, the accessories are worn very simply. The costume designer Susanna thinks the clothes are the most important. The clothes worn by the Miss nobles in the morning must be simple and decent, and there is not lace, in general on the clothes unless they are of a particularly thick type. When going out, will wear appropriate accessories. Gloves and hats are essential but will don’t wear too much jewelry. They will also hang an exquisite bag on their wrists, though they will not be loaded with anything because the money will be recorded on the manor’s account if want to spend money.
The Edwardian era was the last stage in Great Britain to strictly adhere to the social hierarchy. However, compared with the Victorian era, the atmosphere was much looser and freer.
First Season:
The story of “Downton Abbey” was started in 1912. At that time, high-waist skirts with fine belts were popular, highlighting the elegance of women lines. However, with narrow skirts, it was not easy to walk. Ladies’ summer garden party outfits are main of light-textured fabrics and soft, light colors. The hats of the Ladies are flashy like dreams, full of flowers, ribbons, and feathers.
Second Season:
From 1916 to 1918, due to the outbreak of World War I, many things changed. Sybil became a nurse and Edith went to learn how to drive. Even though Mary did not change the aristocratic style, but wearing becomes more simple. Mary and Edith usually wear refinement shirts and simple skirts, while Sybil is always a nurse uniform. The hairstyles of the ladies became simple because of the war. The clothes became more modern, the sleeves of the evening dress were gone, and the length of the skirt was obviously shorter. Chestnut brown hair color is considered the most beautiful.
Third Season:
The skirt gradually widened and the hem rises slowly. By 1918, the hem rise to 8 inches above the ground. With the fashion revolution brought on by Delphi’s dress skirts, ladies finally freed themselves from their underwear and move more freely.
Fourth Season:
The timeline entered the 1920s, and the fashion scene changed with the jazz years. The young high society women no longer wore tight girdles. Loose tailoring and lower waist-line became the trend of the dress code. The big family constantly in decline, but the colors of the ladies’ dresses became more vivid. They wore the like Flapper girl costumes and boldly cut their long hair. You can see a lot of perspective elements of tulle and lace.
Fifth Season:
Missy boldly cut her long hair and kept her retro BoBo head. The simple dressing seemed to see some of Chanel shadow. Women in the 1920s also began to abandon their hats and tied them directly with ribbons, lace, and soft fabrics. The hair band was a mixed version of the head crown and the brim of a hat. At that time, a wide hair band called the “Headache Band” was popular because people believed that the pressure exerted by the hair band on the head had the effect of relieving headaches.
