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You mistreat this poor boy the same way you mistreat my people. You speak of justice, yet you are cruel to those most in need of your help!
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I love in Downton when they have an annual event like the cricket, the servants ball, duneagle etc. but then it only ever happens once and is never mentioned again
I think with the Servants' Ball they literally only show the time it takes place (early Jan) that one time. Every year except 1920 has a timejump over that period. So it could still be happening and we just don't see it.
Duneagle kind of works bc it's explained in-universe why they never go post-1921 (Shrimpy and Susan sell the house) and that they didn't go in 1914-1918 and 1920. I think all the other possible visits (1912, 1913, 1919) are then also covered by timejumps.
The cricket match is more egregious bc we see that late summer time in almost every season. However, iirc Robert was struggling to field a full house team when he had three footmen, a valet, a butler and two resident sons-in-law to play for him. Maybe it gets cancelled in future because they just don't have enough men at the house anymore to make up a team?
It would've been super repetitive really. Let's not forget Downton is one of the first "modern storytelling" shows with only very few, very dense episodes per season, and as you said there's lots of time jumps. Showcasing annual events like that repeatedly and without it getting boring used to work when they still made shows with 20-25 episodes a season. Can't have a nice, indulgent "filler" or "gimmick" episode when everything's so condensed and you need every minute to drive the plot forward.
tbf this is more of a cultural difference. Around eight episodes was/is very much the longstanding norm for an hour-long drama series on British TV. Although that does mean seasonal episodes are not really a thing here outside of separate Christmas specials.
I love in Downton when they have an annual event like the cricket, the servants ball, duneagle etc. but then it only ever happens once and is never mentioned again
I think with the Servants' Ball they literally only show the time it takes place (early Jan) that one time. Every year except 1920 has a timejump over that period. So it could still be happening and we just don't see it.
Duneagle kind of works bc it's explained in-universe why they never go post-1921 (Shrimpy and Susan sell the house) and that they didn't go in 1914-1918 and 1920. I think all the other possible visits (1912, 1913, 1919) are then also covered by timejumps.
The cricket match is more egregious bc we see that late summer time in almost every season. However, iirc Robert was struggling to field a full house team when he had three footmen, a valet, a butler and two resident sons-in-law to play for him. Maybe it gets cancelled in future because they just don't have enough men at the house anymore to make up a team?
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I know people say Edith's season 1 fashion was bad, but some of her fits were so good! That rose colored dress Edith wears when Mary confronts her about Pamuk letter is so beautiful. I think she also wears it during the dinner with the salty pudding where Mary goes after Anthony. And the green dress she wears when Anthony invites her to a date! So lovely.
hi anon, thanks for the message! I agree, Edith's s1 wardrobe isn't really bad at all. I think she's not as fashion-forward as she is later on, but imo the only truly bad outfit is the flower show one (from Mary's "that clothes and that hat" comment), because it looks very juvenile with the puff sleeves. I also really like a lot of her daywear in s1 - the navy dress! the little red suit!
I think the main issue with her s1 outfits is not that they're bad in and of themselves because Edith has bad taste, but they don't quite suit her as much as her later outfits because she hasn't quite figured out yet what works for her. So for example, her s1 pink dress, while beautiful, is quite a cool-toned, almost purpley pink that doesn't suit her colouring as much as the warmer, peachier pinks that she goes for later.
I have the theory that, in early seasons when all the girls were younger and less independent, Cora used to be way more involved in the girls' wardrobe (we see that several times, detailed discussions about going to the dressmaker, how she and not Anna is choosing accessoires, etc.) – and that's the issue. Cora has such a different colouring – she knows what works for her, and that happens to work for Mary and Sybil too per default, but not Edith, who inherited Robert's colouring. Absolutely not Edith. Only Cora's too empty-headed absent-minded to realise, and she doesn't give a damn about Edith to begin with. And it took Edith some time to build the fashion sense and the confidence to go against that and find into herself.
Ok ok I've actually thought a lot about this because I've spent so much time this year looking at the clothes of S1/S2 and thinking about the clothing choices and what they say about the characters. And I love that Edith's style evolution very much fits with her character evolution.
In Season 1, Edith often favors really pale, cool pinks and whites that wash her out and don't work for her coloring, but are also colors that are considered quite pure and feminine and conservative. (And I know the shift to pink being a 100% feminine color really happened in the 1940s, but I do think this is a deliberate choice on the part of the costume designers.) Her clothes, while they fit, are not really fitted to her silhouette and are often pretty heavy with ruffles and lace that means she tends to gets lost inside the clothes. And her hair features an abundance of intricate curls on the sides that don't work for her face but are nonetheless very girlish and feminine.
And throughout Season 1, Edith is the sister who is most trying to fit herself into this mold laid out for her. Her clothes and her life literally do not fit her at this stage. She is trying to earn her parents' affection and everyone's admiration by being The Best at being ladylike and demure. She wants to fit in, have suitors, get a husband and live this life that's been set out for her, and it literally doesn't fit her! A big part of why she writes the letter to the Turkish Embassy is she is trying to punish Mary for straying outside of the bounds of ladylike behavior (and therefore raise her own status). I also think that's why she latches onto Sir Anthony so quickly, because he's more or less who she's supposed to want.
I do think it's likely that Cora had a hand in her daughter's fashion (you see it in S1 when Sybil goes to the dressmaker), but I think that Edith of all the siblings is the most likely to allow Cora to have her way. Sybil obviously pushes back in a major way with the harem pants situation, but I also think that S1 Mary has taken charge of her personal style in a way that suits her as well, often favoring bold colors and jewel tones and highly fashionable silhouettes. Meanwhile I think that Edith would go along with the more conservative clothes her mother picks out, both out of a lack of a sense of personal style and to earn her mother's approval. Although if she did pick them for herself, I think it only goes to show that she is trying to fit herself into a life that doesn't suit her.
She slowly sheds this styling through Seasons 2 & 3, as she starts to build her sense of self, and then in Season 4 once she gives up on fitting this ladylike mold and throws herself into the magazine business. Compare the bolder and more flattering colors she wears with the very pale palette of S1, or the soft waves of her hair style versus the cocker spaniel look. All of this happens as she starts to know herself more and comes into her own and starts learning to trust her own judgment.
A similar thing happens with Mary, where we see her in this highly fashionable mode and as the seasons go on and she strives to be taken seriously as one of the owners of the estate her fashion choices become more serious and adult (while still highly fashionable). We don't get to see as much of this with Sybil, since in Season 2 she is so much in her nurse's uniform and then she exits Season 3 fairly quickly, but I do love the hints that we get in S3 with her shorter hair and less dressed up wardrobe. Cora, Isobel and Violet all have their own sense of style quite set, since they're all grown women, and unfortunately there's not much you can do with the men's fashion of the period as that was fairly set. So this deliberate evolution of character through fashion is most apparent in Mary and Edith.
Anyways I love the styling and costume design in this show, it's gorgeous and I think very deliberately thought through.
I had half a post typed out, but you've said it much better here!
I almost had a line in the original answer about how the girls' s1 outfits are still being approved by their mother, but I didn't want to lay all the blame on Cora for the flaws in Edith's wardrobe.
bc while I agree with @laolafi that Cora had no idea what really worked for Edith and no real inclination to find out, so she probably just picked things that were nice enough without too much thought, I also think @luxheroica is right that Edith could have had a bit more control, like Mary and Sybil probably do, but complies with Cora instead. I doubt Cora would agree to anything radical, but she would let her pick a different colour if she wanted it. Edith in s1 doesn't have enough of a sense of herself to choose what suits her or what she wants, I think because she's always thinking of herself through this lens of how other people see her, what their expectations of her are are and how she's being seen in comparison to others.
I do really enjoy looking at s1 as the starting point for Edith to evolve from though. She doesn't just start dressing like a completely different person come s3. A lot of her core colours stay the same (pink, green, orange - interestingly colours Mary almost never wears, although Edith will wear typical Mary colours like red or blue), just in more flattering shades, and she keeps her love of feminine details (flowers and bows are motifs for her throughout), although it becomes more sophisticated and less girlish.
I was trying to work out a giftset recently and I was really struck by how similar this outfit Edith wears in TGF is to one from S1, just in a more sophisticated, refined form.
They're both v-necks, with a belted waist and a fitted silhouette. The white dress is a broderie anglaise that's mirrored in the lace crochet of the pink. Our girly still loves a massive rose on her hat.
But she isn't hiding behind those terrible little fussy curls, instead her hair is softer and set back from her face which instantly makes her look more confident. The earlier dress goes all in on ruffles and the lace collar to make it extra girly, whereas the later one balances the sugary pink out with a bolder silhouette at the shoulders.
idk if the similarity here was intentional, but I really like full circle-ness of the parallel between the two, especially with the contrast between Edith having her big badass moment in the second look compared to having all her dreams crushed in the first.
I know people say Edith's season 1 fashion was bad, but some of her fits were so good! That rose colored dress Edith wears when Mary confronts her about Pamuk letter is so beautiful. I think she also wears it during the dinner with the salty pudding where Mary goes after Anthony. And the green dress she wears when Anthony invites her to a date! So lovely.
hi anon, thanks for the message! I agree, Edith's s1 wardrobe isn't really bad at all. I think she's not as fashion-forward as she is later on, but imo the only truly bad outfit is the flower show one (from Mary's "that clothes and that hat" comment), because it looks very juvenile with the puff sleeves. I also really like a lot of her daywear in s1 - the navy dress! the little red suit!
I think the main issue with her s1 outfits is not that they're bad in and of themselves because Edith has bad taste, but they don't quite suit her as much as her later outfits because she hasn't quite figured out yet what works for her. So for example, her s1 pink dress, while beautiful, is quite a cool-toned, almost purpley pink that doesn't suit her colouring as much as the warmer, peachier pinks that she goes for later.
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