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Kate's Polish Style Thread

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WipsGlitter · 17/07/2017 21:44

To discuss her outfits on this trip if anyone is interested!

I like the white arrival dress (can guarantee she changed nano second before the he plane landed tho!!!) and quite like the dress she's wearing this evening. Hate that pearl necklace though - really cheap looking.

George's shorts look like they're giving him a wedgie!

As an aside the Prada shoes she wore to the British Museum recently were fab.

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WipsGlitter · 18/07/2017 15:47

I think she's been reading threads on here as she's definitely upped the shoe game! Nude pumps be gone!

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Pallisers · 18/07/2017 15:50

I agree - her shoes are definitely improving.

I loved the dress last night. George's shorts looked like he had grown out of them but they were trying to get a few last wears out of them.

I like her hair shorter too.

Off topic but I loved every single outfit Laetizia wore on the trip to UK - she can be stunning.

ScrumDinger · 18/07/2017 16:09

I think her looks so much better these days.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 18/07/2017 16:36

I have to say I found the sandals in the concentration camp a bit out of place.
Now that's a place where she should have worn her beloved nude courts.

SueMacartney · 18/07/2017 16:58

I did notice the nude shoes had gone!

Her hair is so gorgeous at the mo, I really like the cut. Obvs it has always been amazing, but it's really fresh and suits her.

WipsGlitter · 18/07/2017 17:16

Yes. It's much better shorter.

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sonlypuppyfat · 18/07/2017 17:17

Well I think she had beautiful hair, short hair is ordinary

ScrumDinger · 18/07/2017 17:28

I think the longer hair used to almost wear her rather than the other way around.

pasturesgreen · 18/07/2017 20:11

Nothing so far has really caught my eye on this tour.

That cocktail monstrosity dress she wore last night could in my opinion be redeemed only by being incinerated in a ritual bonfire Envy

PollyPerky · 18/07/2017 21:19

so what is right for a visit to a camp pastures? Striped PJs?

FGS- she had a whole day of engagements afterwards.

QueenoftheAndals · 19/07/2017 19:26

She's certainly being a bit more adventurous fashion-wise on this trip. Maybe Letizia had a word in her ear!

Hairydilemma · 19/07/2017 19:34

Missing the point, but I read the title of this as 'Kate's polish style thread' - ie how we can all emulate her polished-ness!

I liked the cream outfit - bit more 'meh' about the others.

WipsGlitter · 19/07/2017 19:39

I keep reading it that way myself!

The blue today is as very meh. She looks better in a frock. A coat dress ages her about a million years as does that chignon.

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QueenoftheAndals · 19/07/2017 19:43

Hairy I thought it was a reference to her mani-pedi!

JessiCake · 19/07/2017 19:48

I really loved the Erdem two-piece, think it was fine for the concentration camp visit as it was smart and elegant but I agree about the sandals. Bring back the nude heels (for once only...)!! And tbf, even without the 'appropriateness' factor I thought the sandals were ugly, boring, and didn't compliment the outfit.

Agree about that awful pearl necklace, I'm assuming it's very pricey but it looks exactly like the sort of thing my mum used to get herself in Debenhams for a few pounds thirty years ago to 'jazz up' one of her old evening dresses.

I like the shade of the Catherine Walker coat-dress thing she wore to get off the plane in Germany - the blue was eye-catching and bold - but I do sigh a bit when she comes out in a coat-dress. I get that it might be a practical option (not really sure how, but the horrible things are so beloved of junior royals that there must be SOME purpose to them) but I wish she would either just do a dress OR a statement coat. Coat-dresses look so twee and bring back too many echoes of Diana (who, minus the different hair, Kate does look ASTONISHINGLY like, facially - is this just me???!)

My main amazement is centred around the fact that they manage to get their kids to behave what looks like impeccably when out on a public engagement... My DD is the same age as George and though she is usually OK these days and is complimented frequently on her charm and lovely manners she's only 4 and so she can have 'moments' out of the blue, usually when she's feeling anxious and under pressure, and there is NO amount of bribery or threats that would sort her out.

But that's for another board!!

Generally I think she's got it right on this trip so far, accessories aside.

Still wouldn't be her for all the tea in China, I think the scrutiny must be unbearable (and I'm aware of the irony that I'm commenting on her clothes!) Not so much of her outfits but of her body (which I never comment on) and her parenting etc. She must have a personality of rock/steel to not crack under it all.

SamanthaBrique · 19/07/2017 19:57

Glad I'm not the only one who's noticed Kate's resemblance to Diana - I think the hair masks it but she's looking more like her as the years go by.

pasturesgreen · 19/07/2017 19:59

No need for sarcasm, Polly, I was expressing my opinion Hmm

QueenoftheAndals · 19/07/2017 22:35

I like the red off-the-shoulder dress she wore this evening. She looked far more relaxed in it, as she did when they were in India and she adopted a bit of a boho/hippy style. Suits her far better than all the staid coat dresses.

SunshineOutdoors · 19/07/2017 22:38

Has anyone got a link to pics?

Gobbolinothewitchscat · 20/07/2017 06:57

I didn't like that red dress at all. It looked so cheap and nylon-y. Plus it just wasn't an appropriate style for that type of event - i.e. cocktail party. I think the clothes are so hit and miss

WipsGlitter · 20/07/2017 08:03

I wasn't sure about the red dress either.

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PrawnTempura · 20/07/2017 08:10

The Guardian ran an article a couple of days ago about shoes, mentioning those lovely Prada sandals she's been wearing (anyone know where I can get a cheap version? sofa cushion change is coming up short of the +£600Wink)

They've noticed that she's given up the nude shoes too.

QueenoftheAndals · 20/07/2017 08:41

It was a cocktail party but it's summer and it was held outdoors so I'll give her a pass! Seems the new haircut had inspired her to branch her style out a bit.

Hairydilemma · 20/07/2017 09:55

@Sunshine lots of pics here:

whatkatewore.com/category/royal-tours/

JessiCake · 20/07/2017 19:24

Just as an aside to that point about those (fab) Prada sandals she wore: it has just occurred to me that she wears really very high heels indeed (especially those sandals) for a woman as tall as she is (I think she's about 5 foot 10?)

I kind of like that about her.

I know her husband is tall and who knows if she'd go quite as high-heeled if it meant she'd be towering above him.

But it makes me think perhaps she gets a bit of a kick or a confidence-boost maybe from going into a room knowing she's going to be easily the tallest woman there, and taller than some of the men.

Given that she's young and she must get shown around a lot of places on official business by much older men, I wonder if she likes the fillip from the extra height.

It's just quite nice to see a very confident, TALL woman in heels. I'm tall too (not as tall as her) and I love a high heel, but it did take me years to get to that point. I skulked around in less flattering low heels a lot for years.

Not that I've got anything like the looks (or the legs) that Kate has. :(

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