Michelle Dockery has told how the Downton Abbey costumes used to smell - as they were shared around the stars.
The actress, who plays Lady Mary, also said how she enjoyed the later series of the drama because the corsets came off.
The actress says: “Yes, let’s start with the smell. So some of these stunning original costumes have been worn by several actors.
"They’re just sort of giving off a little hum, and it is normally by the end of the day of course because you’ve been in them all day.
"And they just hum, and it’s not your smell, it’s like somebody else’s smell.”
Bosses have previously said how the authentic costumes aren’t washed as they are so delicate.
The actress also told how she felt much “free-er” towards the end of the series, as fashions changed and corsets weren’t required.
She said on the show’s Official Podcast: “We could actually eat our lunches without being sort of in pain by the afternoon, and being able to eat a full meal as opposed to like being wary of how much we would feel bloated in this corset.
"So we were so relieved to get out of them.
“Yes, so it really sort of freed us up. I loved moving into the Twenties, that was my favourite.”
The actress is set to star in April’s upcoming film Downton Abbey: A New Era, alongside series stalwarts Dame Maggie Smith and Hugh Bonneville.
Dominic West is also joining the cast and says it was “very daunting”.
West said: “It’s very daunting coming onto a show that’s been going for so long that is such a big phenomenon and such a big success.
“I’d never been to Highclere (castle) before...you go up the drive and you come over the brow of the hill and there it is.
“It’s like some Disney castle and you can’t quite believe that it’s real.
“It’s such an extraordinary outline against, against the horizon and...so that was the first sort of intake of breath.”
On meeting his castmates, he added: “I had a whole day or two, even with Maggie Smith. I was sitting next to her at that famous dining table.
“I’m chatting away to her...she’s the funniest woman alive and also the sort of cattiest.
“It was funny sitting there talking to her, it was brilliant and... all the casts sat down and you could see they’d been doing this for however long.”
