"DowntonAbbey" may be ending this year, but the costumes aren't going anywhere.

You'll be able to catch many of those fashionable frocks in Chicago starting Tuesday, with "DressingDownton," an exhibit at the Richard H.DriehausMuseum showcasing over 35 costumes from theBritish TV series, now in its sixth and final season.

The lavish costumes make a perfect fit for the museum's interior–which at one time made up the drawing rooms, living rooms, libraries and bedrooms of the affluentNickersonand Fisher families of Chicago. According to the museum, the stories of the Fishers in particular, an urban family of "new money" who lived in the house from 1900 to 1916, create a contrast to the aristocratic lifestyle depicted in the TV series of theCrawleyfamily in the British countryside.

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The museum also offers an optional tea serviceto really round out theDowntonexperience. Tickets include seasonal scones and cake breads, tea sandwiches and a variety of sweets as well as a selection of two specialty teas locally sourced from Chicago purveyor, Rare Tea Cellars. Tea is $55 ($30 for children ages 12 and under) and advance reservations are recommended.

Brandis Friedman takes us inside "Dressing Downton."

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Brandis Friedman: The music evokes a land far away in distance and time.

Anita Rogers, “Downton Abbey” fan: Americans like that different kind of life that we can’t really relate to so much, so different from the way we are.

BF: But the fashions brought to life in this exhibit at the Driehaus Museum help tell the story of the aristocratic Crawley family at the fictional Downton Abbey.

Driehaus Musuem director Lise Dube-Scherr believes this historic museum is the perfect setting for such an exhibit.

Lise Dube-ScherrLise Dube-Scherr, Driehaus Museum director: So there's a correlation between the time period. This house is a bit earlier. It's a Gilded Age mansion, and of course, the Crawley family is living in Downton during the early 1900s from 1912 to 1925.

So that actually relates to this house in terms of the family, the second homeowners—the Fisher family. They lived in house from 1900 to 1916. So that's where the overlap comes in terms of connecting the fictional history of "Downton Abbey" with the actual history of the Driehaus Museum and the Nickerson Mansion.

BF: The exhibit, "Dressing Downton," is made of 35 looks from the first four seasons of “Downton Abbey.” Among them, this beaded dress and velvet jacket worn by Lady Grantham (below) for the hospital’s charity concert; this dusty pink beaded evening dress Lady Mary wore to dinner the first time Sir Richard visited Downtown. Both in Season 2, which would’ve been from 1917 to 1920.

And (below) this pink beaded gown worn by Lady Rose MacClare in Season 4 is showcased next to the tuxedo worn by jazz singer Jack Ross whose mere presence at Downton raised eyebrows upstairs and down.

Ruta Saliklis, curator: The garments that emerged in that era of the ‘20s are much looser, they’re straighter, there’s no sleeves, they’re cut differently, and they’re much shorter. So you’re kind of going towards the boyish look and the fashion of the flapper era, and even though the Crawley women would never admit to being flappers, their dresses were certainly reflective of the flapper era.

BF: Those four seasons cover 1913 to 1922 and reflect how the fashions changed with the times.

RS: It changed a great deal, especially for the women because starting in 1912 it’s still the Edwardian era. And women are wearing corsets, they have very high collars, long sleeves, the dresses are long, and you cannot see their shoes and you certainly cannot see their ankles.

And then you get into the era of World War I and initially you don’t see that many changes because they were thinking the war was going to be over soon, but when it dragged on and on, then you start to see that they’re moving toward more practical garments.

BF: Downton’s costume designers searched high and low to find fragments of vintage clothing from the time period or even clothing that just looked like it was from the era.