I really don’t “get” Meghan Markle’s style choices

[octonaught]

So she wore this yesterday.
I like the jacket, bag & shoes. Dress, not keen, to me, it looks like something from H&M. Then the cross body bag & jacket on shoulders. To me, she looks untidy.
Maybe I should accept that I am officially middle aged. But this is not how I expect someone soon to be in the Royal Family to dress.
To be fair to her, she has definitely smartened up Harry. So I guess she knows what she is doing.... I just can’t see it

Up to her what she chooses to call herself, and having a stage name is hardly uncommon for actors.

I was just wondering

The majority of women don't wear their hair in 'its natural state'. Our hair is cut, shaped, curled, straightened, highlighted, coloured, crimped, plaited and countless other things. Why are people so insistent on pulling this woman apart. She is a stranger to us all. If she was some English soap actress who did reality shows, maybe I'd understand more as she'd seem 'familiar' to us, but none of us know anything about MM's life other than she was an actress in an American series. People did the same with Kate Middleton who has proved herself to be nothing but staid and uninteresting like the rest of them, then she had a baby and was loved by all. MM will be the same. FWIW, Kate Middleton's shakey engagement interview nearly made me emotional. They are just ordinary women. Let them be.

I think Meghan just hasn't got it. She is lacking elegance. But hey who cares as long as they're happy. 😀

Meghan could wear a sack and she would look lovely in it as she is very pretty and is very slim.
I don't like some of her choices but she probably has a stylist who makes the decisions helps her.

Vanity Fair agrees that Meghan has changed her style as recently as this week. She is definitely being influenced by Kate.

Even Diana took a while to get into her style groove. Remember pie crust blouses? Apparently her mother took her to harrods to buy her clothes and initially she dressed like a Sloane Ranger. Then she was helped a Vogue editor and then became a style icon.

Meghan is just tweaking her natural style. Unfortunately for her she has to be a bit more formal and groomed than she has been used to.
Bless he she is really trying!

I think Emilia Wickstead, McQueen & Stella McCartney really suit her.

I'm waiting for the inevitable Jenny Packham Evening Gown, Erdem number and something from Catherine Walker.
Her hat at the Anzac day dawn service was very similar to Kate's Commonwealth one.here

I hope the poor girl gets a chance to have a break before the wedding. She has really packed in her engagements these last couple of weeks.

This blog shows how meghan style has changed. She looked great for an actress in North America.

However the interim months have shown that "Thrown together Duchess style" is not a Thing.

She is hardly ‘thrown together’. Thrown together is me on a daily basis! I hope she does not carbon copy herself into a frumpy older than her years, middle aged woman. Andrew’s daughters, though naturally pretty, are shockingly badly dressed. Kate is determined to stick to ‘safe’ dressing either for fear of getting it wrong or because she just isn’t into clothes. Who knows as she never says anything. MM has a wider view of the world and obviously enjoys fashion. She is the only one whose style I would copy (if I had the money).

Andrew’s daughters, though naturally pretty, are shockingly badly dressed

I think what it is is that they take more fashion risks but unfortunately for them, they quite often don't pay off. When they do they look great though.

Maybe it's a confidence thing? They were born into the royal family so feel quite secure in their positions and DGAF what others think about their sense of style. Kate wasn't, so perhaps she's terrified of getting it wrong and prefers to play it safe. She does

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She does occasionally try new things though - her outfits on her Scandi trip weren't great but she came out with some interesting pieces in Poland, and the relaxed boho vibe she adopted on the India trip really suited her.

I like MM in a trouser suit, they flatter her legs but she needs to lose the dressing gown style coats with them.

What is DGAF

nobody gets to see my natural hair texture since the invent ion of suitable treatments and straigh teners . i look a lot bett er with out frizzy scrappy curls.

is that only allowed because i am white?

excuse spaces, crappy mn coding means they cant be del eted without retyping entire word.

@octonaught DGAF = Don't Give A Fuck.

Agree that Andrew's daughters really very rarely manage to get it right. I'm not sure it's about taking risks as much as bad taste.

I'd love to see Meghan wearing her natural hair texture! Some lovely looks this week

I also think Andrew’s daughters don’t take risks as much as they have poor taste.

Wow we really do love to rip people apart don’t we? Stop and think about how we would feel if we overheard our daughters speaking like this about classmates in the playground?

The posters giving advice on all these badly dressed Royals and where they are going wrong should come on here and post photos maybe we can comment on their style or the lack of it.....

I think she looks amazing and appropriate most of the time
This is a particular favourite!
meghansmirror.com/royal-style/royal-engagement-style/meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-make-a-surprise-visit-to-belfast-northern-ireland/

Bare shoulders in church though was a no no. It was roasting that day bless her but sure she won't be 'allowed' to do it again.

Good god, the pearl clutchers on this thread! She wasn't wearing tights! Bare shoulders in church! What is this, 1948? In more catholic countries like Italy perhaps it would be frowned upon, but in the UK it's hardly an issue. It was a perfectly nice midi dress that happened to be sleeveless. It's not like she was wearing stripper heels and a micro mini!

'it's hardly an issue'

So you think, whilst castigating those who object to bare shoulders in Church as 'pearl clutchers'. That's not terribly fair of you. That opinion does exist, in UK as well as elsewhere.

Paradyning
I never noticed the green skirt, the 'orange' russet bag and shoes and the creamy white top- almost the colours of the Irish flag , on their surprise visit to Belfast.
Though the predominance of green might cause upset in some quarters. As a child of both factions (in the North of Ireland) I can smile.

I grew up in a religious family and went to church every single week until I was 18 and was heavily involved in church life. Admittedly it was a 'low' non Anglican Church but I wouldn't think twice about bare shoulders in a mainstream church. Most churches these days are just glad to have people attending and much less judgemental than many of those on this thread!

Also I am mixed race and my natural hair is a nest of frizz - too flyaway and European to hold into a style in the way Afro hair does but too thick and chaotic to look neat and slick in the way European hair can. I can get it to look more Afro or European by styling it, but neither is my 'natural hair'

I didn't realise the orange green and white until you said. She looks beautiful.

It may be 'pearl clutching' as you so delightfully alude but there are social 'rules' that those in the 'upper echelons' of our society, rightly or wrongly adhere to.

And also in higher churches. I do think in a church you should cover your shoulders but that's how my RC church brought me up. I cringe at strapless church wedding dresses at RC churches. Other churches, I can't comment on.

But these are two separate issues.