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Costumes designed for the late Helen McCrory's characters are still being used in the new series

In HBO's "The Gilded Age," Julian "Downton Abbey" Fellowes transfers his interest in rich people and the people who serve them from early 20th-century England to late 19th-century New York. Once again, it's an upstairs-downstairs, extravagantly dressed soap opera set against a background of social change, as a self-styled aristocracy…