Monday, July 30, 2012

SHIRLEY MACLAINE 'HATED' HER DOWNTON ABBEY PERIOD COSTUMES By Fiona Raisbeck - Monday 30 July 2012 (MARIE CLAIRE)



The period costumes may be one of our favourite aspects of eyes-glued-to-the-TV hit Downton Abbey, but it seems not all the cast members were such fans.

Oscar-winning American actress and series 3 newcomer Shirley Maclaine has revealed that she 'hated' wearing the extravagant 1920s fashion on set whilst filming the upcoming season.

The self-confessed 'jogging pants and tennis shoes' kinda gal, who plays Lady Grantham's mother Martha Levinson in two episodes of the show, did not enjoy the restricting matriarchal clothes, fur coats and OTT accessories, which were all vintage American pieces sourced from an antique costume house in California's San Fernando Valley.

READ MORE: http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity/537485/shirley-maclaine-hated-her-downton-abbey-period-costumes.html#index=3

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