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 know. And the eyeliner.

ITCHING to style her, I tell you! (I know it is wrong of me and she can make her own choices. I just think she could look so different. I do think her wedding dress was fabulous, however.)

QueenPotato Cut the dress off at the knee, and it would be cool. Add some funky boots. And a directional short haircut. Voila.

All for some restyling, but please not the cliché of the short haircut, and a short dress with boots as formal evening wear is nearly as clichéd and inappropriate.

TheCraicDealer plenty of people wear Reiss, its likely the Middletons and university students climbing up the wysteria are already big fans.

She actually does pay for her clothes (well, not her, we do I suppose). They aren't loaned or donated, they're strict on that apparently...

At least she gets to wear it somewhere fancy. The clothes/bag/shoes I am wearing today cost about that and I am sitting in my office scoffing a box of sushi which I grabbed in my lunch hour on the way back from the post office.

Prince William could wear a million pound bespoke suit or a Tesco best one. No-one would bat an eyelid.

Roaring - not that I'm a big fan of the Royals, but to be fair, Eugeine does have a proper job. (Press got bored very quickly of photos of her going to the office in yet another dull grey suit so it doesn't get talked about much). It's for an art gallery, so she's not going to save the world, but at least appears to be attempting to quietly build a career and her own life away from the public eye. I can't help but think more Royals should be encouraged to go get a proper job like her.

You'll get no where on here with all these Royalty worshipping slaves, OP.

If it was her own hard earned money then she spend it how she likes but it's not it's tax payer's money at a time when public services are being dismantled and the poorest are struggling even more than ever.

Yanbu.

YABU.....It's far more vulgar to discuss how much someone elses clothing costs....

Notso - if it fitted him properly, few people would be able to tell the difference....

I think the vulgar thing is that there is such a thing as a dress that costs £2600. What a total waste of money.

To be honest I think I feel deep sympathy for her....

If she wears high street clothing or god forbid anything twice she gets slammed for it. f she wears high end couture she also gets slammed in the press. Additionally has a bevy of camera lenses poised to catch every hair out of place, open pore, evidence she has eaten lunch in the last week, minor imperfections etc. Who would exchange that for a nice dress really?

I think there is a great deal of benefit to be drawn from her wearing high end couture and giving designers a much-needed platform. If they are British designers all the better.

And FWIW if anybody offered me a dress with that kind of price tag for an evening I would most certainly wear it, probably only to Sainsbury's but there you go... my invite to the Bond premiere must have got lost!

It is a LOT of money especially for a dress made from gaudy curtain fabric with a weird flarey knee-height tier

A politician wouldn't have got away with it.

But royalty do what they fancy.

She can do no right ( am not a royalist by the way) i notice folk not talking about the cost of William's shoes or coat..i bet he has wardrobes full of stuff too!
The ones having a good laugh are the designers, the mark up on these clothes must be huge. They are racking it in no doubt.
Double, not sainsburys, waitrose surely?

No more than wearing a nice watch. I love nice watches.

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Compared with some of the other stuff for that sort of money .....
www.selfridges.com/GB/en/cat/womens/clothing/dresses/evening/2052-lt-ce_price_gbp-lt-9110/?browsing_country=GB&currency=GBP&language=en&ppp=67&fh_sort_by=-ce_price_gbp|DESC

Watches will get more wears, though. As will jewellery.

The dress was designed by her friend. It could have been loaned, gifted etc. Kate wearing the dress is a great advert for the designer. Even if she bought the dress, I'd still think it's fine. Her pictures are flashed all over the world. Millions of people look at images of her.

Her influence on the perception of the royal family is very positive. People like her the world over. She is the wife of one future king and the mother of the next one. She's hugely important and I really think people should be far more respectful towards her. She's never put a foot wrong and yet she gets judged and hated every day.

I personally wouldn't spend £2600 on a dress even if my net worth was £10million. I don't much care about dresses and don't appear in the papers on a daily basis though so completely different situation. Her dress was appropriate to her situation and the royal engagement she was performing (whilst her little daughter is only a few months old)!

FWIW I'm anti-monarchy.

However - couture takes a LOT of money to produce and £2600 is honestly peanuts. I know it's not quite the same, but it's like when non-crafters don't understand the time and money that goes into crafting. Materials, designing, and most important time costs money, a lot of money for something handcrafted that takes multiple people to make it and who are paid a reasonable wage. Fabric isn't cheap either, especially ethically produced fabric. £2600 wouldn't be over the top for a handcrafted, custom designed wedding dress after all.

Her influence on the perception of the royal family is very positive. People like her the world over. She is the wife of one future king and the mother of the next one. She's hugely important and I really think people should be far more respectful towards her.

Bwahaha

She's never put a foot wrong

She's only recently mastered the art of keeping her bum covered up. Perhaps we're setting the bar a bit low?

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The ones having a good laugh are the designers, the mark up on these clothes must be huge. They are racking it in no doubt.
Nope.
The profit margins on couture are very, very thin.
Sales volumes are tiny

Fabric - even that awful floral stuff - including lining, thread, interfacing, fastenings : will have come to around £200
Cutting : by hand and (theoretically) pieces aligned to the pattern : several hours of a member of staff on probably £15-£20 per hour
Sewing : many, many hours possibly hand sewing
Finishing : ditto
then VAT extracts 20% of the final price
and hire of work space
and then pay the designer

Designers make their money out of branded tat like Burberry do, not designer stuff

Was this cotton? A little surprising then. But even so it's £2600 not £26000.

Was it really cotton?

You should be a seamstress MrsD. I bet it's a growth industry ATM. More passion for fabrics and techniques in fashion would be good.

If you want to see vulgar expenditure on nasty dresses you want to watch Say Yes to the Dress on TLC whenever they feature Pnina Tornai dresses.