You made your first holy communion in jeans?! I was also disgusted because my mother insisted on making my dress in plain white cotton with puff sleeves, a sash and a round collar. What’s the correct term for that – like a peter pan, but no gap in the middle. There was hand embroidery on the collar in white. I had a wreath of fresh lily of the valley for my hair. With hindsight it was beautiful, but at the time I was not impressed at the lack of a veil, lace gloves and a parasol.
I love the confirmation outfit red. I think my outfit featured a cropped pistachio denim jacket. The youth of today would spill blood for it. Why didn’t I keep it?
It’s really tough to strike that balance as both a global leader and a spouse I’d imagine, especially with the current COL crisis. I think it’s a measure of how beloved the PoW is that she doesn’t get more flack for buying identical 3 grand coat dresses in a range of colours. I guess that they’re close enough to a uniform that most people don’t notice. There was also a dress that appeared a first glance to be a thrifty re-wear, but if you looked closely the pattern placement was different, so it was in actual fact another extremely expensive duplicate. I think it’s canny to do a mix of high-street and high-end or to stick to mid-tier designers.
Speaking of the coronation, while I didn’t watch the whole thing, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the ceremony. It was fascinating. I loved Penny Mordaunt’s outfit too, but I was surprised at the laurel motif. I do think you’ve one of the best royals though botemp for fashion watching. Queen Maxima is definitely a risk taker and not afraid to crack open the jewel vault. Some of her outfits are awful, but she seems to have great fun with fashion.
Nice skirt Crkd
Clothes wise, I finally bought the 1774 Birkenstocks that have lived rent-free in my head for a year. I bought my holy grail white linen trousers. I have spent years looking. I’m now faffing about summer bags. I did feel last year that I was missing a summer bag for holidays, but I can’t decide what I want. I have to admit that I do like some of the Loewe raffia ones, but am put off by 1) their ubiquity 2) their price (for raffia like? – it’s basically straw no?) 3) the fact that they are mostly big and I will therefore end up carrying everyone’s crap to the pool and if it is very handbag-y my DH will resist carrying it. So now I’m wondering if a better bet is a cheapo more unisex shopper for carting the kindles, sun cream, goggles etc to the pool and a smaller summery handbag for the evenings.