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Royal style: the Sussexes in Africa - it's gonna take a lot to drag us away from them...

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QueenOfTheAndals · 20/09/2019 19:22

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As always, let's critique the clothes and not the wearers.

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paradyning · 24/09/2019 17:05

I think it was the day that her topless pictures broke. I guess it was a good in PR terms that she was pictured looking very demure on that day.

paradyning · 24/09/2019 17:06

Just to clarify – Coincidentally good PR. It's never a good day to have to show a public face when you've been humiliated in public.

ItsJustTheOneSwanActually · 24/09/2019 17:23

We have a striped maxi dress this evening. It's ok.

PreschoolYes · 24/09/2019 17:30

The striped dress is a re wear isn't it?

Artesia · 24/09/2019 17:34

The striped dress is a real miss for me. It’s not a very flattering shape, and the colours don’t do much for her. She’s so radiant, and the dress just looks drab in my opinion

Disfordarkchocolate · 24/09/2019 17:35

She's so lovely, I've never looked that radiant ever.

itswinetime · 24/09/2019 17:35

video

Yes it's a rewear from the Australia tour. It's not a bad dress but I was hoping for something a bit less casual.

QueenOfTheAndals · 24/09/2019 17:35

Yes, she wore it to Bondi Beach IIRC.

There's of tonight's event on YouTube.

Royal style: the Sussexes in Africa - it's gonna take a lot to drag us away from them...
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ChardonnaysDistantCousin · 24/09/2019 17:38

Not sure about the striped dress.

Her best look so far was the white shirt/black trousers jean jacket.

UrsulaPandress · 24/09/2019 17:38

Mmm malva pudding.

paradyning · 24/09/2019 17:42

Ooo I didn't like that dress first time.
Liking all the rewearing though.

thisenglishlife · 24/09/2019 17:45

The dress is too long for her. She looks radiant when she gets her colours right but autumn or muddy, sludgy colours usually do nothing for her. They mainly make redheads look good. The right brights would look great. Like Kate, she also looks good in navy and dark green.

Her hair has been great this tour. She is also very fresh faced.

whitershadeofpale · 24/09/2019 18:31

Another fail, she's really not getting it right on this tour (in terms of how she looks), she's prepared to spend preposterous amounts on clothes at times but oddly reluctant to have things tailored and hardly anything fits her properly.

whitershadeofpale · 24/09/2019 18:32

I think if she had to wear that dress then it needed some accessories, a wooden bangle wouldn't have been ostentatious but would have looked good.

hopeishere · 24/09/2019 18:35

I didn't like the fabric of the green dress and it swamped her a bit. Not keen on the maxi either. She's a bit bare compared to everyone else.

She's very pretty!!

StCharlotte · 24/09/2019 18:43

I hate khaki/olive/sludge with a passion but I think that mosque dress is fabulous.

Yes I know it's just me.

Tonight's dress is a horror.

Horsemad · 24/09/2019 18:44

Oh dear! The green dress looks awful, wrong colour & way too much material.

The striped maxi isn't quite right - I think the horizontal bands don't work imo & it's too long.

BertrandRussell · 24/09/2019 18:46

I can’t work out what’s wrong with Harry’s suits. Presumably they are made for him- why don’t they fit properly?

ThingsImighthavedone · 24/09/2019 18:47

Just wrong I’m so many fronts that evening dress. I think she often just gets it completely wrong. Which is surprising since she’s used to a public life and being photographed. It seems she often doesn’t know what suits her and she misses the tone of the occasion quite often. Either too casual or overdressed. I still don’t think she has a stylist.

DobbyTheHouseElk · 24/09/2019 18:48

I think it’s great she’s re wearing clothes. It’s something I do a lot of! Grin

BertrandRussell · 24/09/2019 18:53

“she misses the tone of the occasion quite often“
Does she? I haven’t noticed that. I think she might have tonight but I assume they're not going straight on to dinner so she might change into something more formal?

hopeishere · 24/09/2019 19:04

I agree she misses the dress code sometimes. The gorge Oscar De La Renta made her look really overdressed.

In a separate note the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester feature on the Royal Family insta today!!

SillyBillyBandy · 24/09/2019 19:09

I think she looks amazing in khaki! And that maxi is my fav from the last tour

Very fresh faced and beautiful complexion.

Harry always look bit of a scruff

ChardonnaysDistantCousin · 24/09/2019 19:13

I think she looks really good in muddy greens and khakis.

The striped dress might benefit from being lined.

MilleniumHallsWalledGarden · 24/09/2019 19:33

I really like the colour and sheen of the mosque dress and like the stripy dress much more this time round. I think she looks great!

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