Royal Style: Never knowingly under-jewelled, let's be like Daisy and shine!

[Maireas]

New thread, thanks for the brilliant title suggestion, as ever!

I think that the stomachers are great jewellery - but I didn't feel that the piece really worked with Camilla's dress last night. QC had chosen a dress with sharp lines, a deep V neck and she already had a sash. I thought the stomacher just looked too fussy for the clean neckline.

I hope she brings them out again - they seem to look best when worn with a more traditional fitted bodice. But they need to be positioned well if there is a sash

I agree @Lunde - that's probably why it ended up looking like an afterthought, as pp said. That's also why I think it would have looked better had it been fastened further down. I'd still rather see it on a dress that doesn't quite suit, tbf! I get very excited every time a 'new' piece is worn.

I really can't fathom stomachers. What is their use traditionally

They're from an age where women wore a lot more jewellery - they were often adorned rather in the manner of a Christmas tree!

If you look at old portraits/photographs of royalty you'll see lots of examples.

Of course women dressed very differently then; stomachers don't really suit modern styles very well.

They were a large triangular brooch that sat between bust line and waist. I think they came from the era when more was more in jewellery during the Renaissance.

I have read that they can be pinned on but were also often sewn on in earlier times a bit like beading - probably so they could be removed for the dress to be cleaned.

The word 'stomacher' is so unfortunate.

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Oh, they're so cute 🥰 !

I'm starting a new thread...

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The jewel version is named after the clothing version - stomachers in dresses have been around a long time.

If you look at this modern version of a traditional top of a women’s dress, the triangle of paler fabric with the floral print that covers the chest is the stomacher. They were the decorative elements of the front of a dress. With this type of dress you didn’t step into it and do it up at the back. One you were already dressed to the point below you put the dress on like a dressing gown and it was cut so the front edges arched to either side of the stomacher (like a dressing gown that is too small!). They were then sewn or pinned in place

A triangular shaped jewel that was pinned to cover the same space also came to be called a stomacher.

Thanks, @Serenster , that's really interesting!

Thanks @Serenster that's very interesting. I love that dress too

Kate and Sophie look lovely at the Christmas Service.

They do, @LadyEloise1 - we've been talking about it on the new thread. Join us!

I didn't realise there was a new thread.🙈
I was wondering why this one was so quiet.
Thank you @Maireas

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I think we need to finish off this thread!

There's a link above to the new thread.

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