To think wearing a £2600 dress is vulgar?

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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

I can't believe the nastiness. Kate always looks nice as far as I can see but even if she didn't then so what?

Women should be allowed to wear what they want being the usual MN mantra. People have different styles and tastes, but there is a lot of jealousy for some reason. Personally I'd choose my life over hers but then I'm pretty lucky.

And think of the VAT that will be paid on 2.6k dresses towards the 'public purse'.....another mn obsession.

The awfulness of the Emmanuel creation didn't stops thousands of 80's brides processing down the aisle looking like little Bo Peep though. It still set a trend. Fergie's frock was much nicer yet still so many copied Diana's wedding style.

Aw Ripening you have reminded me how much I loved Fergie's dress when I was little

Fergie's dress was GORGEOUS

you might enjoy this blog of top ten royal dresses.

Diana is in there but there are some beauties. Princess Margaret was swoony.

(Not a royalist btw )

It's no more vulgar than the fact that my neighbour spent 5 grand more on his car than I did on mine. I don't think he's vulgar. Once you start thinking that people who spend more on this or that are vulgar, unless you live in a hovel and eat just rice, you're being vulgar too.

Diana's dress was absolutely hideous and frankly not fit for purpose Do you know what. I loved that dress and Fergie's. So much so that my wd was just like theirs. It was the wedding dress look of the era. I would rather have that style than those sleeveless numbers which show brides' ham-like upper arms and bulging back fat.
In fact it makes me sad that Diana is no longer here despite all her faults and stupidity.

Diana's dress was incredible. I actually cried when I saw how beautiful she and her dress looked. At the time I was 9 and it really was straight out of a fairy tale. Kate's was in keeping with the style of the day and beautiful too. God I love a royal wedding.

:o Alan I was a similar age and even then I thought "blimey those sleeves are a bit much". However I will hand it to her/her designers that they certainly went with the "princessy" theme. It was the ultimate meringue.

Snorting at "vulgarity"!

There's a story that Princess Margaret had commented that she thought the enormous diamond ring that Richard Burton had bought Elizabeth Taylor was vulgar. They met at a function one night and Princess Margaret remarked on the huge stone, so Elizabeth Taylor asked her would she like to try it, and was astonished when Princess Margaret said yes! As the princess admired the ring on her hand, Luz Taylor said "Doesn't look vulgar now, does it?"

I think Princess Margaret would have been a scream on a night out. No good when the DCs all get noro and there's no shopping in, but cocktails and bar-hopping would be her specialist subject.

I agree. Top laugh and great wing girl!

I loved Diana's dress too. It had to be a big dress as they were getting married in St Pauls.

The only things wrong with it were a) it creased to buggery - I still remember thinking "oh dear" when she got out of the coach, but it did seemto settle down, and b) she lost a huge amount of weight (now we know why!) between engagement and the wedding and it didn't really fit her: it was made for a strapping large-busted buxom young thing and had to be rapidly taken in to fit a waif-like frame. Any wedding dress shop will tell you there is only so much a dress can be taken in without ruining it.

I wouldn't be very comfortable wearing a dress worth so much money. I'd be sure to spill beetroot all down it or stand on the seam and rip it. Probably about 5 minutes after putting it on.

Diana's wedding all seems very Big Fat Gypsy Wedding now - the big dress and the horse and carriage etc.

I thought it was very romantic as a child.

Here's a link to some royal dresses although some people aren't very royal
www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/royal-wedding-dresses-through-the-years/sophie-wikleman-marries-in-anna-rosa-bistroff/

I agree Mrs those dresses are spectacular. I especially like Kate Moss's dress. Lucky you to see them at the V&A. although the marriages haven't really lasted the distance

I remember thinking that Kate Moss's dress looked dreadful in the photos. It looks far better on the mannequin.