Royal style and gossip: photo calls and tennis balls

[QueenOfTheAndals]

Everyone ready for a joint Wimbledon Duchessing?

Oh I agree it’s a beautiful colour and fine for summer in and of itself (it’s one of my favourite colours and one I love to wear) but I would wear on summer evenings or as trousers/skirt rather than full outfit. It suits her and looks great with her colouring (much better than the pale blue of today’s dress) but it’s more to do with the occasion - light, floaty, summery colours suit Wimbledon and look more ‘right’ to me.

I really wanted her to wear something with yellow in it, it’s beautiful on her.

Harry and Meghan are at the lion king premiere tonight arent they?

Today’s outfit is a bit bland, I don’t mind the shoes but overall the look is very ‘meh’.

I love Kats dress today! Vast improvement on yesterday.

For personal reasons I feel very strongly opposed to the idea that dark green is not “a summer colour”. For those of us who don’t suit pale colours very well summer dressing is super difficult. Everything is pastel, terribly frustrating.

I agree 100 percent with this. Besides, all shades of green appear in nature in the summer so how can darker green not be appropriate for summer? I think it's a particularly British thing; Americans wear dark colors in the summer; thank goodness, because I do not wear pastels.

Doesn't it just show that you can't please everyone!

On a side note - and just remembered due to the earlier comment about her fabulous hair - is Kim Murray pregnant, or have I imagined it?!

Which reminds me, do any of you still wear your nude pumps?

I do. I find they give the illusion of longer slimmer legs which is a big plus for me! Only for best though. Given what I paid for them (several pairs ) I really should wear them every day!

This thread certainly proves it ( that you can't please everyone in your clothing / fashion choices)
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What a dull dress, dull style, wispy washy pastel colour in what looks like scratchy material.

I think it’s to do with the light here. It’s so dark, gloomy and dreary s lot of the time.

In autumn/winter the darker, more rich colours really come into their own and just go well with the weather. Green, burgundy, berry, navy, etc, these colours are worn a lot when it dark and cold. In the summer we want to see bright, happy, sunshiny colours. Especially at Wimbledon and summer events like that.

It doesn’t mean you have to wear pastels. I don’t wear pastels, ever.

If anyone 'believes', I am convinced DOC is the exact same HOC season as me - deep summer. We are supposed to wear deep, muted colours. The best colours are those from a Monet painting (muted) but we need the deeper shade of them. If that makes any sense to anyone!

Chewbecca makes perfect sense to me, I'm an anemone summer However, the green Kate wore yesterday isn't a summer green, which is why I'm not keen on it (and the high round neck!)

Climate does make a difference. I live in a climate where the light tends to be bright and sunshiny year round. So we just wear what we feel like at the moment. And everything inside is air conditioned so that makes a difference, too.

Everything about yesterday’s dress said winter to me. The fit. The style.

Actually the top of the dress makes the darting make sense. We just couldn't see it cos it was all covered by hair.

I quite like the top of it now. Definitely called for a halfup/half down hairdo though.

Oh yes that detailing is cute! I agree, with a pretty design like that with some interest to it, it makes sense to wear your hair up.

But...She couldn’t have worn her hair in a pony tail today because Meghan did that yesterday and I’m sure a huge deal would have somehow been made of that (🙄🙄).

Not sure about James Middleton's girlfriend blouse. It might benefit from a button or two.

She could have done with a 'forties style hair roll to do justice to the neck and shoulder line. I do like those earrings now we can see them.

I'm clutching my pearls just imagining wearing a blouse that revealing in front of my boyfriends Mum. It's niptacular!

That photo though, she didn't skip arm day at the gym did she??

I think I prefer today's style but yesterday's colour. Funny, she doesn't look anywhere near as thin as she did yesterday.

Fashionably small French bosoms refuse to be constricted by anything as bourgeois as a bra and a properly buttoned blouse!

(looks bloody awful though)

I like that outfit. Quite chic and sexy and a little bit daring - right up my street!. Not sure about the red buttons. I’d wear it if I was one size smaller, and it wouldn’t really bother me what my MIL (or anyone else) might think.

I''m not sure what look Brooklyn Beckham is going for here. Victorian schoolteacher on a hiking holiday in the Pyrenees perhaps.