To think wearing a £2600 dress is vulgar?

[CloudsofBrick]

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

Yeah and if you are bigger than a 4 they will scowl at you and tell you they don't carry such big sizes!

She would look great with a short haircut like this -
nothing like Diana

OP my thoughts on this also stretch to men and women who spend ridiculous amounts of suits, handbags and shoes.

So also in the news recently has been the young non-British men who move to London for the summer months and drive around the streets surrounding Harrods, clocking up traffic and parking offences. A real menace, not boosting any British industries and involving far more obscene wealth being flagged ostentatiously than a dress.

I do love a nice bit of clothing, and if it is ethically sourced and handmade then it's obviously going to cost a bit more and be worth it. However, I'm the sort of person who panics over buying a pair of £40 shoes.

Seriously? You think £40 is a lot for a pair of shoes? Aren't you stretching this little matchstick girl thing beyond the realms of probability?

Finally, I had no idea Mumsnetters were such royalists!

I'm not. I just can't stand picking on people purely because they're in the public eye (and invariably female). You must live in a little world of your own if you are unaware that in fashion industries terms, £2,600 is a vulgar sum. Couture can be sold for more than £10,000 an item and I very much doubt that KM's dress was one of the more expensive at that night. I mean, its hardly news. The newspapers and women's magazines are full of stories about it.

What people spend their money on, is absolutely nothing to do with anyone else.

DoubleDeClutch that haircut is hideous. Without styling by a top stylist before you leave the house, its basically an old fashioned pudding bowl cut. Hair doesn't have to be short to look good you know. That thinking went out in the 50s.

Did you have to link to Hathaway?

I think her hair is fine. It suits her and when she is ready to change it I am sure she will.

I'm quite impressed that she still has hair as after my kids I lost a lot. I had to do a Donald Trump and strategically cover balding areas.

Yes, Hathaway

It's about how much is spent compared to the overall family income. I know people who spend £260 but it's a disproportionately large amount of their income and means that it's hard to pay bills. That's not just vulgar but stupid too.

It was probably gifted to her to wear for promotional purposes but even if it wasn't then people can spend their money how they see fit and its nobody elses business.

i agree. it's very possible she was given it. or given a significant discount for the publicity.

But if she turned up in £10 from primark she'd be ripped to shreds too?

If she wears pretty dresses, she gets photographed, people buy the magazine, want to buy similar dresses inspired by her look, there's a whole industry dependant on her fashion choices. Is £2.6k really a huge amount when bags and watches can costs tens or hundreds of thousands?

I'm not a royalist but at least this generation are doing more for Britain than Charles, Edward and Andrew-party hands.

rolite / eddie
How many times does it need saying
The Duchess of Cambridge DOES NOT take clothes freebies
*all of the shops are paid full price for the clothes she takes from them
so that she retains control over what she wears

The shoes are terrible with that dress.
She really gets the details wrong.

The blue grey dress at the Bond premier was too baggy and needed a bra or bodice.

Her shoes are invariably awful don't even get me on this fucking nude sledges

Her hair is too, too full now. And clear from this pic that it is extensions.

The eye make up is usually too much.

Honestly, she needs a friend to help her bad time,

And clear from this pic that it is extensions.
LOL

The hair is dreadful, just dreadful. She has a beautiful face and figure though and I know which I'd rather have! I think the dress was, let's say, adventurous.

Does she actually pay for these outfits though? Or are they a great advert for the designer etc and therefore free?

Sorry just seen previous post. It wasn't a dig re free clothes. Just a wonder

CloudsofBrick
Sparechange - I know, and I do NOT feel comfortable with that. Hence I own five pairs of shoes, because I can't afford to spend lots of money in one go and I hate spending money on shit that will have been made by a poor ten year old for a pittance.

I own one pair of shoes, should I start a thread saying having five pairs of shoes is vulgar? Of course not. Kate is hardly going to wear a 15 pound dress from Primark is she.

I didn't like the dress; it seemed frumpy and dated and not worth a four-figure pricetag but if she's at a formal occasion representing the UK she needs to make an effort I suppose, and that means splashing out a lot of money.

Having said that, yesterday I read that she had "recycled" a dress at some function. "Recycled" apparently meant that she'd worn the dress on another occasion . I do that all the time lol!

I doubt she pays for many of her clothes. I agree spending large amounts on clothes, handbags and the like is vulgar.

She pays for her clothes. Also I think it's admirable that she wears things more than once, although I don't know if she will wear this again! She should def look to get it altered because the material is lovely.

YABU it isn't vulgar.

Farting in such a dress, however, is. As is scratching one's muff.

Vulcan
I doubt she pays for many of her clothes.
FFS how many times does it need saying.
She does NOT take freebies for entirely obvious contractual reasons.
All clothes are paid for in full at the prices shown