Showing posts with label nurse crawley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nurse crawley. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Stepping Into Nurse Crawley's Shoes

     You never get too old for dress up. I'm sure that's one reason Halloween is such a popular holiday. Here is a Downton Inspired Nurse Sybil Crawley costume. Everything is handmade. The dress was originally sewn for a Wynna movie that didn't happen, and the apron was part of a Halloween maidservant costume.



     Call it escapism or whatever you like, but that desire to try being someone else is what I think is at the root of fiction. We invent characters and make things happen to them because it allows us to experience the exciting, the novel, the out-of-the-ordinary, all from a safe distance.