{"id":179626,"date":"2025-07-09T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/downton-abbeys-lavish-costumes-for-sale\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:00:13","slug":"downton-abbeys-lavish-costumes-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/downton-abbeys-lavish-costumes-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Downton Abbey&#8217;s lavish costumes for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-07-09\" datetime=\"1752073213\" pubdate=\"\">9 July 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Lavish costumes worn in hit period drama Downton Abbey are going under the hammer.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">A wedding dress worn by Michelle Dockery in Downton Abbey is up for auction<\/p>\n<p>Downton Abbey: The Auction is being held online by Bonhams and runs between August 18 and September 16 with lots including a wedding dress worn by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/michelle-dockery\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,michelle-dockery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelle Dockery<\/a>&#8216;s character Lady Mary Crawley and flapper-style harem pants seen on Jessica Brown Findlay in her role as Lady Sybil.<\/p>\n<p>The show&#8217;s costume designer Anna Robbins told The Telegraph newspaper: &#8220;We\u2019ve been able to embrace and explore these really important sartorial steps forward, from 1912 to 1930. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a drama with such heart and it\u2019s about family, but it also tells the story of our time &#8230; [Seeing the costumes again is] like being reunited with old friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Thomas, group director for Private and Iconic Collections at Bonhams UK, said: &#8220;The extraordinary attention to detail is visible everywhere from Mrs Patmore\u2019s handwritten recipes to the many revived costumes made with original vintage fabrics, like the famously \u2018modern\u2019 harem pants costume worked on by Lady Sybil in the first series.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nLady Mary&#8217;s wedding dress is expected to fetch between \u00a33,000 and \u00a35,000, while an outfit seen on the late Dame Maggie Smith in her role as Violet Crawley has an estimate of \u00a32,000 to \u00a33,000.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother dress going under the hammer is a green gown covered in gold lace worn by Lady Mary for a dinner in London in series six, and Robbins admits the frock &#8211; which has an estimated sale price of \u00a31,000-\u00a31,500 &#8211; is very special.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe told the publication: &#8220;I found about six metres of it [the lace], which is really rare to uncover \u2013 I\u2019d never seen anything like it. I wasn\u2019t completely sure what to do with it until I read the script of the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nA wedding dress worn by Laura Carmichael as Lady Edith is also up for sale with an estimate of around \u00a33,000 &#8211; \u00a35,000.<\/p>\n<p>\nAs well as clothes, the auction also features around 120 props and pieces of furniture as well as the Grantham family car &#8211; a 1925 Sunbeam 20\/60hp &#8211; which has an estimate of around \u00a325,000 to \u00a335,000.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso for sale is a butler&#8217;s bell, a dinner gong, a signed script and a walking stick used by Maggie Smith&#8217;s character.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/downton-abbeys-lavish-costumes-sale-1421718.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 July 2025 Lavish costumes worn in hit period drama Downton Abbey are going under the hammer. A wedding dress worn by Michelle Dockery in Downton Abbey is up for auction Downton Abbey: The Auction is being held online by Bonhams and runs between August 18 and September 16 with lots including a wedding dress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9710,11860],"class_list":{"0":"post-179626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-dame-maggie-smith","9":"tag-michelle-dockery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}