Michelle Dockery And Laura Carmichael | Who What Wardrobes | Who What Wear
We challenged Michelle Dockery and Laura Carmichael to a game of Who Wore It: Downton Abbey Edition. Watch above to see how well they're able to identify their fellow cast-mates by their costumes alone.
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00:00Hi, I'm Michelle Dockery.
00:01And I'm Loretta Michael.
00:03We're going to see if we can guess the cast member
00:05based on who wore it.
00:07Let's see how we do.
00:08Oh, you're wearing that.
00:16Lady Mary.
00:17That's in the first movie.
00:18The first movie.
00:20It's a good one.
00:21This piece was for the big ballroom scene
00:24at the end of the film.
00:25It's also the scene between Mary and Violet
00:30when Violet tells Mary that she's not very well.
00:32This actually started as a short dress,
00:37which was then, which is original.
00:40So it was from 1928 or something.
00:42And then Anna Robbins had the rest of it made
00:45to make it floor-length.
00:46It was absolutely beautiful.
00:47And I loved it.
00:48It'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, and this was the dress that didn't arrive on time.
01:03So we had to make a big version of it
01:06and then the tailored version.
01:10So yeah, this felt like an ongoing process
01:12of layering different fabrics to get that print.
01:16And that tiara was amazing, wasn't it?
01:18Good tiara, little crown.
01:21Oh, that's Laura Haddock.
01:22It is.
01:24Yeah, that's Myrna.
01:25Yeah, in this movie, when the gorgeous Myrna
01:28died, we found this to dance with.
01:31It's just her arrival.
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 yeah, more loose.
01:47But I think it's so, so sexy.
01:49Yeah, beautiful.
01:50And she has that little kind of platinum
01:52blonde sort of Monroe hair, doesn't she?
01:57Okay, that's me.
01:57That's you.
01:59That's from this movie.
02:00Well, I think I probably wore it in the first one as well.
02:03Sometimes we wear the same things.
02:08But this is, I think this is a scene
02:10where Mary is doing the voice of Myrna
02:16in the film on my microphone.
02:18Yeah, it's a day look.
02:20So this is day wear.
02:23And Anna wanted this to be a sort of Chanel,
02:25a kind of Coco Chanel look.
02:29So it has the double pearls and the beautiful neckline.
02:35Which was actually, this costume started
02:37with just that one piece.
02:39And then everything was made.
02:40So she can start from a really small detail
02:44and work her way down.
02:46But this is one of my favorites.
02:47I loved it.
02:49Oh, yes.
02:50And this is me in the South of France.
02:52This is one of my favorite outfits
02:54I think I've ever worn.
02:55I don't know.
02:57It's a kimono, sort of boat shirt kind of thing.
03:02And yeah, that's an original, I think.
03:04That's a find, to be honest.
03:06And then we made the silk pants.
03:10It really was, you know, right for the climate
03:13because it was cool and flurry.
03:14But yeah, we got to wear trousers
03:17and yet break away from the kind of stiffer world
03:20of dancing.
03:21I think we got to go a bit further into the newer trends.
03:25But sometimes we can't go that far
03:28when we're at the house.
03:30The characters we play, they seem quite held.
03:33So yeah, this was a chance to break away
03:36and show some of the more daring 20s looks.
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 an Edith accessory, isn't it?
03:54Ooh, is 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 or a drawing room scene.
04:04And I think maybe she made it more in the first film,
04:06actually.
04:07Some of these dresses we carried through
04:08and wanted to keep some moments of her, like,
04:11continuity of her life into Japan.
04:13Yeah.
04:14It's got like a cape.
04:15A cape, yeah.
04:16Something like, it's like a cloak.
04:18Yeah, Cora.
04:21Oh, that's Lily.
04:22It's Lily.
04:23So that was the debutante.
04:26So that's Lily James.
04:28Who plays Rose.
04:29Who plays Rose.
04:30And it was this specific design where the hips,
04:35there's sort of padding in the hips
04:39that creates this kind of little bell skirt.
04:41It's super cute.
04:42I remember Lily was like, I don't even love it.
04:45But it was gorgeous.
04:46She was so cute.
04:47And it was a ballroom scene
04:48and she danced with the prince.
04:51And it was very glamorous, that episode,
04:54because there was the royals
04:55and so the costumes were quite elaborate.
04:58It's such a, like, silhouette of that moment, isn't it?
05:01So specific to the time to have that drop waist.
05:04And it's amazing.
05:07That's me.
05:08That's your Fortuny.
05:09That's the Fortuny,
05:10which was the most stunning dress I've ever worn,
05:14which was made by Fortuny for the first film,
05:20especially on the poster as well.
05:22But 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 house that make it, aren't they?
05:34Yes.
05:34Concertina fabric.
05:36And would have at the time.
05:37So it was really special to have one of those pieces.
05:41And then she layered Anna Robbins, our costume designer,
05:45layered it with lots of pieces of jewelry, which I loved.
05:48It was fully in the fitting.
05:49She'd put one and then she was like,
05:51no, it needs another one and another one.
05:53And then the line's not very well for them to see from there.
05:56But yeah, it was absolutely beautiful.
05:57One of my favorites.
06:00That's Cora.
06:00That's Cora, the first season.
06:02I love this.
06:04Forget how gorgeous those early years were.
06:08So this would have been the Edwardian period.
06:12And Cora, you know, with the designers,
06:15they're always being conscious of the newness of the time.
06:20But they put that on the mother of the family.
06:22So we often are wearing sort of fashions
06:26that are a bit later.
06:27This to me feels, you know, so early
06:30compared to where we get corsets.
06:32With the high alert codes.
06:34Yeah.
06:35And more like violet shape,
06:37but violet words from that period.
06:40And I remember thinking that Elizabeth
06:41looked like Eliza Doolittle in this outfit.
06:45And that hat.
06:46That was the flower show.
06:48Yeah.
06:49Wasn't it?
06:49It was.
06:50And we had beautiful hats.
06:51I kind of miss that period for the hats.
06:54We had fabulous hats.
06:56Painting.
07:00So that's season two.
07:03And that's when Matthew is coming home.
07:08And the house, the Kamakopolis at home.
07:12I think this was partly made.
07:14So it was French lace and it had like a lilac silk.
07:19So it's underneath.
07:21Yeah.
07:24I actually remember those pearls
07:27when at the dining room scene quite a lot.
07:29I remember this went into the dining room scene.
07:31And I think this was the costume I was wearing
07:32when I was sort of playing with my beads,
07:36just sort of fidgeting with them.
07:37And then the hook came off
07:40and all the beads just went onto the floor.
07:44And then of course,
07:45for continuity we had to fix the necklace
07:48before we started filming again.
07:51So they had to put the beads on piece by piece.
07:54I felt awful, but I loved that period.
07:57And that was, you know, during the war time.
07:59So there was a lot of black and lilac.
08:03There was a lot of mourning for the lost soldiers.
08:07And so there was a real, you know,
08:09those colours were kind of,
08:11we were wearing those quite often.
08:13Yeah, but I loved it.
08:14And I love the hair in this series.
08:16It's very different.
08:18Thanks so much for watching.
08:20Until next time, be well, mate.