Downton’s Lady Mary in double denim? Well, it was good enough for ‘the Queen’!
GOOD heavens, Carson, is that Lady Mary flaunting her fashion-forward style credentials by stepping out in chic double denim?
It’s certainly a bold look for Downton star Michelle Dockery, who’s ditched her character’s flapper dress.
Although the outfit might appal Downton Abbey butler Carson, it will win approval from Claire Foy, who played the Queen in The Crown.
She recently signalled the style’s strong comeback by matching blue jeans with a belted denim jacket.
Ms Dockery, who stars in the recent Netflix political thriller Anatomy Of A Scandal, was seen emerging from the Corinthia Hotel in central London yesterday in her all-blue ensemble.
Days earlier, Ms Foy, 38, chose a similar look in New York during a US promotional tour for A Very British Scandal, the Amazon series dramatising the stormy marriage and divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll.
With her shirt daringly open, Ms Dockery, 40, was dressed for comfort. A passerby said: ‘She looked terrific and certainly stood out from the crowd dressed all in blue. There’s no way you’d miss her. She looked a very stylish woman with somewhere to go.’
The double-denim trend, once regarded as a crime against fashion, is firmly back in favour among confident female celebrities.
A host of stars have helped revive the style recently, including Ms Dockery’s Anatomy Of A Scandal co-star Sienna Miller, who was photographed in New York wearing slouchy denim jeans with a dark denim shirt.
TV host Stacey Dooley was pictured in jeans and a denim jacket, supermodel Naomi Campbell hit the red carpet in a dark double-denim suit, and singer Dua Lipa caused a social media storm with a 90s look in lowrise jeans with a denim halter-neck.