Victoria Starmer’s dress

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It’s this:

Personally I didn't care much for Sophie Raworth's dress. So I don't really get why people like ME & EM so much. Still it makes a change from Sam Cam and Boden.

Is it because they have built strong relationships with fashion journalists? Me + Em seem to be featured massively in eg Telegraph fashion.

I wouldn't have thought that the Telegraph was the first choice newspaper for Labour politicians.

Well, The Guardian had a piece up on Me + Em pretty sharpish on Friday. So I'm thinking they're good at media relations.

Well they would be - given who Clare Hornby (the founder) is married to!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Hornby#:~:text=in%20July%202023.-,Personal%20life,Oxfordshire%20with%20their%20two%20children.

Haven't read all the thread to see if it's already been mentioned, but Keir Starmer needs to get a proper tailor as his trousers were way too long!

https://x.com/TerribleMaps/status/1809227985968304519/photo/1

I read a piece ages ago about David Miliband's style and how he got his trouser length exactly right. Found it with a Google, it was in the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/jan/06/david-miliband-vogue-fashion-vote-style-politicians

Trouser length is something that Rishi could never get right, his were always too tight and short. Is Keir's suit off the peg and he is slightly shorter than the average suit leg size. DH is 5'10" and suit trousers are sometimes very slightly long on him but passable.

Victoria’s white dress today is stunning. Is it another Me+Em?

Do you mean yesterday’s for the flight? Haven’t seen another one.

Don’t know where it’s from but it’s a bit too Alice in Wonderland and ingratiating for me.

Even a high street suit can have the leg length altered but I can understand if he was too busy. Also I think too long looks better than too short.

Oh god what a nightmare to have to go with your husband on a long haul business trip, and get on and off a plane in slingbacks and a white dress. I’d be knackered and fed up and just wanting to go home at this point. It all feels a bit old-fashioned, I think it’s time for him to let her step back again now.

I really hope she at least had some comfy pyjamas to change into during the flight!

I didn't see the dress in full- most photos cropped it at her waist.

But I do think that white lace was not quite formal enough for the occasion. it looked a bit 'little girlish' almost wedding-y.

Bearing in mind she'd whip it off on the plane and put on joggers and a T.

I agree that choosing to accompany your H on a business trip is dated.

She's made such a thing (or he has) about continuing with her NHS role so pity her poor patients needing OH assessments when she's in the US.

She doesn’t have patients and she’s not in a clinical role. She has a legal/management role in occupational health in the hospital, it’s an internal team providing OH services to the hospital staff, like an adjunct of HR.

Oh god what a nightmare to have to go with your husband on a long haul business trip, and get on and off a plane in slingbacks and a white dress.

My thoughts exactly and if ME & EM we have seen that they can also do smart trouser suits.

That's enough of being the pretty dress-wearing wife on his arm for me. I'd so much prefer she went back to her own job now.

That’s a bit unfair, people can take time off from their NHS job and I think it’s reasonable to do that to support your spouse at a massive moment in their life/career. Maybe he asked for her support on the trip, maybe they have the kind of relationship where the spouse of a high profile politician provides a lot of moral support and/or advice - it’s been a thing for millennia.

I think a PP said she’s an NHS lawyer, not an HCP but even if she was a brain surgeon she’d have a right to time off.

Oh I have no issue with her taking the time off work or her choosing to go with him but I think it’s definitely a choice to take your spouse these days rather than an expectation. In her (slingback) shoes I’d be drawing the line at transatlantic travel after what must have been an insanely exhausting few days already!

‘https://www.hellomagazine.com/fashion/celebrity-style/705298/keir-starmers-wife-victoria-looks-like-a-movie-star-as-she-steps-off-plane-in-dazzling-dress/’

(I feel bound to say I googled - am not an habitual Hello reader …)

That article has been moved it seems. Here's the new link:

www.hellomagazine.com/fashion/celebrity-style/705298/keir-starmers-wife-victoria-steps-off-the-plane-in-the-most-dazzling-dress/

The red dress is no longer sold out - I assume they've ordered more stock:

https://www.meandem.com/contrast-stitch-midi-dress-poppy-red-cream?clickref=1100lyFahuHN&appclickref=1100lyFahuHN&utmmsource=partnerize&utmmedium=affiliate&utmmcampaign=skimlinksphg&utmm_content=

She may have decided to use it as an opportunity to meet spouses of the other leaders. It can't be easy being thrown into her role, so I would expect that it's a relief to be able to talk to someone who has experienced the same

In her position (🤔) I’d probably agree to being a trailing wife for maybe the first month, and then for the odd truly important trip a few times a year. Maybe once per quarter? Because I’d image the protocol arrangements alone must take up a huge amount of time.

I guess it’s fine if you don’t have your own career, but awfully disruptive if you do.

I work in the NHS and damn right, if I got the opportunity to go to a NATO summit as well as support a loved one at such an important thing, I'd be booking annual leave and on that plane in a heartbeat.

I think it’s reasonable to discuss fashion choices/style etc, but it’s bitchy and misogynist to pontificate on what this woman should and should not be doing. All these comments on ‘being the wife on the arm’. No one here knows their relationship, or what she wants to do. FFS, just leave their personal decisions out of it. It’s no one’s business, but their own.

Having spouses along for the 75th anniversary NATO summit may be dated from the perspective of a normal job but it's very much the done thing. Almost all the other spouses will be there, and it would be a brave choice to decide to break with protocol. Angela Merkel's husband gave it all a pass, but that was an unusual choice, and she was an unconventional woman.