Duchess of Cambridge

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Anyone else getting fed up of the constant headlines regarding Kate's 'recycled' outfits?

So, she's worn an outfit twice, big deal, maybe just like us, she has a favourite outfit she loves wearing. Surely she'd get flamed even more for wearing an outfit once.

Maybe she's just damed if she does and damned if she doesn't, but I say good for her!

Someone tell the Daily Mail that the t-shirt I'm recycling today has been recycled so many times it's going into holes.
But maybe if DoC did a bit more (5 days a week every week perhaps like the rest of us?) then people would comment less on her clothes.

think you need to make some different choices in your reading material.

My word-she’s thin.....

I secretly like to imagine Kate and Meghan spending most of their days slobbing around their Country Halls in the same holey leggings and a stained slouchy tunic just like the rest of us mere mortals.

I think if you look at the events they tend to go to, most of us would buy a new outfit and “dress up” too - it’s just where it’s a once a year event for us, it’s weekly for them!

Ok this is hilarious - just looked through the photos and there’s an extreme close up of her ankle with a small flesh coloured plaster ; though those thorough journalists at the Daily Mail are keen to clarify that it’s unclear where the injury came from

Switch to reading a decent newspaper and you won’t hear a word about it.

It’s the Daily Fail and the rest of the gutter press that write about it.

@Dryne- god forbid the DoC shaves her own legs!!

I would make a shit royal. I routinely double wear stuff before I wash it if it passes the sniff test. I do have LK Bennett nude shoes though.

I love Kate, and think that she, William, Harry and Meghan are a total credit to the Royal family.
It still astounds me that wearing an outfit twice (whether the undertone was positive or negative) is news though.

Why not focus on the awesome work they’re doing on mental health charities? Surely lots more meaningful and helpful to their cause!

Why are they calling it “recycling”? Surely it’s just wearing clothes more than once.

I always think the recycling stories are positive. Wearing clothes more than once is good (environmentally, financially). The subtext is even wealthy princesses wear outfits more than once. It's the antithesis of throwaway fashion.

I agree with PP, she is looking very thin lately. I don't think it suits her and thought she looked much older that she is, although in the smiley pics she looks much better.
I think she's stunning when she's carrying a wee bit more weight. I also loved the pics of Megan with the baby when her face was slightly fuller too.

Why are they calling it “recycling”? Surely it’s just wearing clothes more than once.

Because Daily Mail journalists are fucking stupid very limited as to what words/phrases they can use. So they use the same tired shit over and over and over again.

An outfit isn’t reworn, it’s “recycled”.

A woman doesn’t wear a bikini on the beach, she “shows off her incredible bikini body” or “sets pulses racing”. Or if she’s not stick thin, there will be a mention of “curves”.

She doesn't just turn up to an occasion in a frock, she “leads the glamour”.

Any woman who gets pregnant HAS to be referred to as “Pregnant XXXXX” for the entire duration of their pregnancy, regardless of what the rest of the article is about.

And of course there’s the double-ended headline with “as s/he” in the middle...

“XXXX does blah blah blah blah AS SHE blah blah blah blah blah.”

Back to the DoS/DoC thing, I will say that from the beginning the DoC has worn high street stuff fairly frequently (even wore Topshop during her first pregnancy IIRC) whereas DoS seems to be in nothing but crazy expensive designer outfits.

whereas DoS seems to be in nothing but crazy expensive designer outfits.

Definitely not true - there have been multiple instances of her wearing high street labels. Again, I encourage you to check out Elizabeth Holmes for a balanced view on the clothes Kate and Meghan wear, and the messages they are used to send.

Both Meghan and Kate mix it up. Kate wears high street labels sometimes, but there have also been occasions where she has bought two almost identical but subtly different versions of the same £2,000 dress. It’s not fair to claim some distinction between her and Meghan when they both use clothes in incredibly similar ways.

I’m not saying it isn’t ok to criticise their choices. Kate recently wore a Gucci dress right when Gucci were embroiled in that blackface controversy, which seemed completely tone deaf to me. And when she and Harry attended an event after the New Zealand mosque attack, Meghan wore an eye-wateringly expensive black coat which was very similar to the one she wore to her baby shower. That didn’t feel right either.

So by all means, be discerning about their choices. But don’t fall for the lazy media trap of implying that Kate’s clothes show that she’s relatable and frugal while Meghan’s show that she’s high maintenance and expensive. It’s not true, and it’s much less interesting than taking a nuanced and balanced approach.

It'd be very difficult for the average mother to maintain that level of thinness.

She's had three babies in a short space of time, that along with breastfeeding and sleepless nights causes massive stress on the body. Women usually respond to that stress by gaining or losing weight. Why criticise?

All the people calling her too thin would be calling her too fat if she went the other way. Or maybe they'd be happy she looked like them...

She always looks great and healthy in spite of that.

True. I reckon if I had nannies, a chef, a personal trainer, a stylist, an almost unlimited wardrobe budget and a hefty amount of time on my hands, none of which I had to pay for myself, I could be exceptionally slender and immaculately groomed as well.

She's had three babies in a short space of time, that along with breastfeeding and sleepless nights causes massive stress on the body.

How do you know she’s breastfeeding and has sleepless nights? They have at least one nanny for one thing...

I think criticisms of her weight are incredibly unfair, from people who don’t know her. She is slim but you have absolutely no possible concept of whether she is unhealthy or not. You don’t know how much she eats or what her metabolism is like or how much exercise she does, and all this eyebrow raising is unnecessary, misogynistic and cruel.

Princess Anne has been subject to articles about her recycling clothes for decades. She doesn't just wear things that are a year old, she wears things that are decades old!

I am hugely impressed that she can still fit in outfits she wore when much younger and look good in them! I wish the press would give it a more positive spin really.

Here's an article www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3132160/Anne-timewarp-Princess-s-known-recycling-outfits-reveal-trusty-favourites-older-children.html that refers to her wearing an outfit in 1980 (before Zara was born) she then wore it to 4 more public engagements up to 2015!

I don’t think people are criticising her weight. But she has gone from being slim but athletic looking to thin.

I think saying it doesn’t suit her and makes her look old are criticisms!

Why would someone out themselves as a Daily Mail reader? I used to read it on the sly until I realised how it was impacting my mental health.

Maybe read some real news OP - The Daily Telegraph?

This pisses me off no end. You don't hear about Prince Harry being caught wearing the same outfit twice. Double standards

Why is there always comment along the lines "we, the tax-payers, pay for these clothes"? Don't we also pay the wages of e.g. the P.M. Members of Parliament, and anyone else on the public payroll - teachers in state schools, Civil Servants, NHS staffs.