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To think wearing a £2600 dress is vulgar?

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CloudsofBrick · 28/10/2015 12:25

According to This Morning (I'm on half term with a rare child - free day, don't judge) Kate Middleton was wearing some designer flowery thing for a night out this week that cost £2600.

AIBU in feeling slightly sick at the thought of a garment costing so much? Especially when that is almost two month's wages for me.

Even if I got rich, I swear I would never feel comfortable spending that sort of money on clothes Confused

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DownstairsMixUp · 28/10/2015 22:35

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Qwertybynature · 28/10/2015 22:36

Stopfaffing I think it was a maternity dress. Tbf, she's always 'recycled' her outfits. It was always reported a bit Hmm at first.

MargoReadbetter · 28/10/2015 22:47

So, LK Dullnet and Reiss, these beneficiaries of the Kate effect (excuse me while I puke), do they pay taxes?

As for calling KM by her married name. It's a forum. We can call her whatever the hell we want.

I feel I need to look at the dress now, rant over.

MargoReadbetter · 28/10/2015 22:50

OMG that's just a curtain. What was she thinking?

TalkinPease · 28/10/2015 22:52

Margo
I've not looked up their accounts online but yes, probably
at least a sight more than Vivienne Westwood does Grin
and they will be paying their payroll taxes in the UK - creating jobs.

Want2bSupermum · 28/10/2015 23:05

Thank you Talkin! I was assigned to do an inventory count at the Hermes store at riverside mall where LK Bennett has a location. They had a huge drop in sales and I was tasked with asking the store manager about why she thought sales had dropped so much. She was very clear that their marketing budget had dropped and they were struggling with affording the product placement costs of getting their product worn by people in the media. She made specific reference to LK Bennett saying how she wished she had someone as globally high profile as the DoC wearing their brand who also pays for the items in full rather than borrowing them.

That to me speaks volumes about the support she is giving to the UK clothing industry.

toffeeboffin · 28/10/2015 23:22

Paid for it with her own money?

No. You, dear taxpayer, paid for it.

toffeeboffin · 28/10/2015 23:23

She is way too thin. She'd look better and younger with 7/8 pounds on her.

OurBlanche · 28/10/2015 23:23

No, I didn't. Really!

MargoReadbetter · 28/10/2015 23:24

Not tax dodgers then? Good. Paying the living wage? Do they?

The clothes are still dull and a big shit.

MargoReadbetter · 28/10/2015 23:25

A 'bit' not a 'big', though that'll do too.

apricotdanish · 28/10/2015 23:52

I like the dress. I know nobody else on the thread seems to but I really do. I really love Erdem designs. I saw a show of his work at the V&A "Fashion in Motion" and some of the clothes were breathtakingly beautiful.
I Don't get all the KM excitement in the press but I thought it was nice to see her in something more bold than usual, especially after the Bond premier dress that I thought was really bland, each to their own though.

HopefulAnxiety · 29/10/2015 00:30

Hope I got the For Life and Made In England range mixed up, but Dr Martens apparently do make some shoes Northants an example

derxa · 29/10/2015 00:45

I wish this Kate bashing would stop. It's nasty playground stuff.

32ndfloorandabitdizzy · 29/10/2015 03:48

I am KM neutral. When she 1st married and before she used to have a lot of the same clothes that I did- it was a bit of a joke with friends that when I turned up in something often months or even a year later she would wear it. Hobbs, Lk bennett, Orla Kiely. We are totally different body shapes and I am 16 years older than her but similar colourings.

I must add that I have never bought a single item because she wore it and actually got rid of a maxmara coat that she later wore as everyone commented on it being the KM coat.

Now she never wears household brands or low cost designers such as OK unless it is old ranges (she wore an old orla dress yesterday I saw- only because OK tweeted about it)

She isn't a high street princess anymore but why should she be? As i had more money I bought more expensive clothes and she does the same. the difference is that rather than £350 dresses which are affordable to more people (more certainly not all) she now wears £1800 day dresses

That said the lace burgundy lace dress she wore in the day last week was an appalling awful dress and totally unsuitable fabric for the time and event.

OddSocksHighHeels · 29/10/2015 04:58

Slag off the dress, fine, can we leave her weight out of it please? It doesn't help anybody.

AFewGoodWomen · 29/10/2015 09:29

The people insisting she pays for her clothes.....

  1. where's the link to support this assertion?
  2. where do you think she gets her money from? You can't afford Erdem dresses on the salary of a RAF pilot
sparechange · 29/10/2015 10:23

AFew
Prince William had a large inheritance from his mother, plus an income from Prince Charles' duchy of Cornwall. I'm sure he can stretch to buying her a few frocks.
And she comes from a wealthy family. Her parents bought her a flat in Chelsea to live in after she graduated so I'm sure she has some sort of trust fund income from them.

Do you honestly think they live entirely on his salary? Confused

TalkinPease · 29/10/2015 10:26

The cannot live on William's salary because its zero net
he is not in the RAF,
he works for the Air Ambulance and donates his salary back to them

GoblinLittleOwl · 29/10/2015 11:25

Why all this unpleasant bitchery about the Duchess of Cambridge?

I remember how much people enjoyed the Princess of Wales' fashion parade; the rest of the royal family were incline towards frumpiness and she was like a breath of fresh air, with fashion at any rate.

Of course, social media didn't exist then, so the journalists who did comment unfavourably had to put their names to their comments.

Scremersford · 29/10/2015 11:31

Goblin Why all this unpleasant bitchery about the Duchess of Cambridge?

Its the same for most females in the public eye. Some of the comments on social media are so bitter and critical, its sad.

AFewGoodWomen · 29/10/2015 11:34

We, that's my point!
This whole "she pays for her clothes" line in this thread....WE pay for her clothes. They don't earn money!

AFewGoodWomen · 29/10/2015 11:35

TalkinPeece

I realize he has no salary. I realize he gives it back to the Air Ambulance organization. So why do you keep saying she pays for her clothes?

Where do you think she gets "her" money from?
Where do you think any royals get their money from?

TalkinPease · 29/10/2015 11:36

afew
The point is that the companies providing the clothes get paid

with funds that DO NOT come from the taxpayer on an annual basis (see up thread)

Chazza - who funds the Cambridges - makes millions each year from the Duchy
those biccies in Waitrose pay for her clothes Grin

PoundingTheStreets · 29/10/2015 11:45

I think you got a flaming for the choice of words, but I see where you're coming from OP. IT seems like a huge extravagance when there are people out there whose annual rent is worth the same amount and others who cannot afford to eat. However, twas ever thus and we all live within our own income bracket. It could be argued that the Duchess of Cambridge has a job requirement to wear expensive designer clothing for her role.

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