Royal Style and Beauty: Trooping forward - colour glitter and style but more tiaras may take a while..

[Maireas]

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Welcome old friends and new!

Like the navy spots fabric but not the awful flouncy 80s style.

Not keen on Kate's look today, and had no idea she was in my neck of the woods today either until my mum mentioned it.

Nope I don't like it either, but it's nowhere near as awful as the frock horror white/yellow version of this dress she wore on the Caribbean tour... we don't need to see that one ever again!!

Camilla in a pretty but unremarkable blue dress, Letizia showing off those arms again, Mary in a voluminous skirt, and Sophie...well, Sophie so often nails it but other times I wonder what on earth she was thinking. This khaki wrap dress with a white t-shirt beneath is a thumbs down from me.

Leti of the guns. Oh to be all toned like that.

QC? I’m not sure if it is just a really unflattering angle or it is an underpinning decision. But oh my - that colour looks the orbs on her.

Mary’s flappy skirt? Like it - not the colour.

Sophie’s frock? I quite like it and I love the colour on her. I’m not sure
About the t-shirt/top. A wee green sleeve? Miles better.

The only thing I don't like about Kates dress is the gold buttons.

Sophie looks great, but a slightly shorter, fitted sleeve would have worked better.

The initiative Kate endorsed today is brilliant.

Lady Edwina is so impressive.

Married to Dan Snow, too!

I love CPM's spotty skirt. I think she looks great, though I'd probably have preferred a less bulky top. A simple silk shell top would have looked better with the jacket.

I really dislike Sophie's outfit. Those trench dresses don't do anyone any favours, and wearing a t-shirt underneath doesn't help.

The Grosvenor bunny hole is worth going down if you have an hour to spare!

Princess of Wales re-wearing her version of that Beulah dress to open the Young V&A today. I think Crown Princess Mary may have been the first to wear it, but with Mette-Marit, Kate, Beatrice and Lady Frederick Windsor also fans, it’s clearly the new Vampire’s Wife!

Nice dress on Kate. The belt spoils it a wee bit.
White stilettos ☹️

(Shhh - I quite like the white heels 🙊)

I like her earrings but I find the dress very boring and I don't think pastel pink is her best colour. It looked better in yellow on Lady Fred the other day.

Dislike the high neck very much, and agree that pale pink is not her colour. I thought we'd burned those white stilettos? Who saved them from the blaze?

She looks gorgeous but I agree the dress is totally the wrong colour for her, and those shoes are shockers.

As it's Kate, she probably has another 47 near-identical pairs in her wardrobe.

I wonder where all her clothes are kept? I mean, there must literally be several rooms full of them by now, and I'd guess a database of everything with photos and what was worn when and where.

Ah Serenstar !!!!

Re the dress storage, I have a very distant memory of a tv program showing a room with racks rather like they have at dry cleaners - and the ER2s various coats all hanging with protective covers and a little note pinned to the cover with a record of where/when it was worn. It is a very old memory, but as we’ve seen from Princess Anne & Beatrice’s wedding dress, clothes are kept for decades, and kept well enough to be reworn. So no yellowing or decay. God knows how big the archive must be. And as a pp noted hat storage must be a nightmare. Dress up heaven though.

I wish Kate would wear belts around her waist. She looks like a little girl with them as high as that.

Kate is supposed to be a "Summer" and pale pink is a good colour on "Summers".
I'm not convinced she is a "Summer"

I wonder if there’s now some kind of searchable database that they can use to find an outfit - ‘garden party, summer, location’ and get all the twenty million possible clothing thrown up?

If not, there probably should be!

I really love that pink dress. Proper princessy!
I think she looks fab until you get to the shoes...

I imagine ‘coat, green’ get a few hits on that database