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Nancy Lawson, costume specialist and co-curator of “Dressing Downton: Changing Fashions for Changing Times,” discusses the details of an original gown worn by character Freda Dudley Ward in season four of “Downton Abbey” during a media preview of the long-awaited exhibition in the Grand Ballroom Gallery of the Lightner Museum on October 3, 2017. The exhibition features 36 original costume pieces from the show, displayed alongside intricately crafted furnishings and art from Otto Lightner’s original collection of the same time period. The exhibit opens today, October 4, 2017 and runs through January 7, 2018. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)