Lady Mary Crawley, ready for a day's hunting in Downton Abbey's concluding season
According to one of our experts, Downton Abbey’s costume designer got it right. But was it just by luck?
While the “correctness” of one’s foxhunting attire doesn’t help hounds one iota in giving us a good day’s hunting, it’s always fun to wrangle over what’s “correct” and what’s not. Especially when we see faux foxhunting scenes on the screen. So when I saw the images of Lady Mary Crawley and her father Robert, Earl of Grantham dressed to go hunting, I wondered why the costume designer hadn’t checked in with Foxhunting Life’s Panel of Experts first.
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"It is not uncommon," Hugh says. "His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales wore cuffs on his hunting livery.
The Staff and members of the South Pembrokeshire Foxhounds wear cuffs.
Also that flamboyant equestrian from Ireland Aidan O'Connell wears cuffs on his Swallow Tails!"
Jorrocks
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