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

Nope, not vulgar.
Jealously not a good look though.
She probably hasn't even paid for it.

Question: Is that even worse then? She get's to wear a £2600 for free?

Vulgar is a very judgemental word isn't it?

I would happily spend that on a dress. She can afford it, just because you can't doesn't make it vulgar

Gosh, getting rather flamed here! Right, hands up, I'm clearly being super unreasonable - I actually thought it might be more balanced than this. I'll keep my nose out of KM's business in future

You're not going to comment on the cost of the men's suits? Their outfits or shoes? Ok.

Don't be daft, she's royalty. As far as I'm concerned that tepid woman doesn't do anywhere near enough to dazzle and confound us, her subjects. Boring nobody she presents herself as.

Mind you...that dress was an abomination to style. Curtain catastrophe.

It could be very sexist as just commenting on a woman's dress. What about say
£300 church shoes, £100 tie, £3000 suit etc. A decently dressed man's clothes will often be as much as that dress. She was at an event with rich people so she was only dressing as they do.
We all seek to fit in.

Also it's relative. Everyone will find someone who earns more and spends more.

I don't see how a couple of metres of material gets to cost that much - but I hate expensive exclusive fashions - they are divisive for society.

If I could afford that to spend on a dress/clothes I'd give the money to charity where it would actually help someone.

Chances of her having paid for it are slim......

But if she did, she can do what she wants. Would you rather she turned up in a nasty polyester River Island number she picked up for 50 quid down the high street?

What's it you? Should she be wearing a bin liner? Another KM bashing thread. I'm no royalist but this is getting tedious now.

I really doubt she actually paid either full price or anything at all for it.

There was a thread on here not too long ago in which (and for some bizarre reasons people) were posting their household incomes. It wasn't a straight questions about earnings, but something else (can't remember)

Anyway, don't look for it OP, you'll shit yourself.

Mind-boggling sums that people had to play with at the end of each month. Huge amounts of spare cash.

Plent of nice cars and expensive dresses for those folks I imagine.

No I do kinda agree about haute couture, designer wear in general. Why should a dress cost thousands of pounds? Taking into account; materials, time spent deciding on the design, labour costs and, of course, some degree of profit (am I forgetting anything?) surely a dress still wouldn't cost that much?

Of course, things are 'worth' whatever someone is willing to pay but some of these designer clothes must have quite a markup. I don't begrudge anyone spending their money on designer clobber but I can also see the point that the clothes probably don't need to cost as much as they do. I guess it goes back to what I said earlier. If people are willing to pay ten times what the product could cost, why wouldn't someone charge that?

I also dont get handbags. Why people spend hundreds or more on a handbag. Doesn't bother me that they do, just wouldn't be my choice if I had the money.

When someone rich spends thousands on a dress (if she did, it might have been given to her) they don't actually stand and burn 50s. The money goes to pay for workers and materials and keeps companies and employment going. It's not "wasted" money. I may find the idea of a 2K dress flabbergasting and way beyond what I'd ever spend, but I think if people do have money, spending it on things is the best thing they can do to redistribute it and help the economy. Elton John gets slammed for spending £££££ on flowers and outfits, but he's putting that money into people's pockets. Rather than than stash it all away in accounts with dodgy banks.

I just wish she would cut her hair really short - she would look really chic then

If I had an unlimited fund to buy beautiful clothes I'd spend it.

I think Kate's a bit boring in her style and should wear bolder, more extravagant clothing like Sarah Burton and Vivienne Westwood do.

Agree Double I always think that.

I’d much rather KM wore something designed and made in the UK, with the associated cost premium, than wore something cheaper from the high street that was manufactured elsewhere.

May I just say - I'm honestly not jealous of or bitter at anyone having more money than me

But you did point out that it would be 2 months wages for you... just making the link there!

And Jenny Packham, a British ready-to-wear designer, is one of the designers who supports EJF ejfoundation.org/campaigns/commodities/item/building-support-sustainable-and-ethical-industry-practices

FWIW
Kate Cambridge set a policy a long time ago of always paying for her clothes
as then designers cannot piggyback in the way the Emmanuels did with Diana

A couple of grand for an evening dress is paltry compared to what those with more money than sense pay for handbags

and chances are she will wear it several times and then sell it for charity in years to come

need to see a pic of the dress really.

Not vulgar at all. I'm sure all of the gowns she wears for events cost around that much.

Im sick of seeing her Will and Harry at film premieres/rugby matches etc lately.
They seem to act more like members of some teen band than members of the royal family.

Assuming it was the one she wore to the Bond opening - I just looked and it was a bit blah! Swishy and pale.