Royal Style: We are in need of pink diamonds!

[Maireas]

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Naughty!

If rumours are true, Anne was always a bit of a lass....

Well I'd still blush standing in front of that display having my picture taken. And I've had my moments 😂

Anne is fearless. This is a woman who inspects bin depots and goes down sewers. Nothing fazes her.

Sorry to take the talk back to Catherine.

It's a relief when any young mum has beaten cancer...but she has lost something and looks so much older than her age. And I just can't get excited about a young woman dressing to hide herself herself (personality and clothes).

If she wants timeless, she should take a leaf out of the late Queen Mother's white mourning wardrobe of 1938 on a state visit to France. Catherine seems to have lost her vivacity in a rush to conform to a dress code even older royals and her late mother in law played with.

Picture below is a taster of that 1938 wardrobe(oh the jewels...). Maybe we need a Mumsnet intervention to remind her of her fun fashion moments when her clothes and eyes sparkled in tune with her smile?

I am equally perplexed. He isn't that much in the public eye so he could commission 3 or 4 perfectly tailored bespoke suits and a couple of jackets and trousers and he'd be set for life.

Charles is dapper but Felipe has the advantage of height - and a tailor who is worth his weight in gold.

I think it's a deliberate choice.Edward clearly prefers the loose fit . I'm imagining his tailors wincing at his instructions.

Yes, in the article above, it shows Charles wearing suits he had made 50 years ago. I suppose Anne does the same, to an extent, but I know what you mean about men's wardrobes!

I also think he's probably one of these men who don't pay much attention to clothing details.

In the last photo of Edward with Sophie in the green dress I looked at the excess fabric around the upper arm and wondered if he had taken to wearing his late father’s clothes as some sort of ‘Edinburgh to Edinburgh’ tribute. It looks like such a poor fit on someone who has access to everything needed for a perfect fit.

There’s a few photos of Edward here - very sweetly he wore the same distinctive jacket to bring each of his children home from the hospital in 2003 and 2007. I can find several pictures of him wearing it recently including one with Louise dated 2024 and this one with a dreadful funny tie. Perhaps the jacket was always a looser fit and, as he has lost muscle as he has aged, now looks too loose, but he’s copying Anne with her low key frugality rather than Andrew with his love of indulgence and status.

According to the article he wore a cat tie on his wedding day. There is also a photo of him looking quite dapper in 1993 when he had Ardent productions. His outfit does seem quite loose there too.
https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/514866/prince-edward-life-in-photos/

Well, well, well perhaps I wasn’t too far off the mark when I suggested some of Edwards recent clothes could actually be his father’s.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/style/king-charles-recycles-his-fathers-coat-67-year-later/

Yes, I think they seem to do that.

I find that Edward is starting to look the other Prince Edward - the DoK who is nearly 30 years his senior!

Have a word with your big brother Eddie, and ask for the number of his tailor...

I know next to nothing about gents’ tailoring, so wouldn't normally comment, but - with a stronger than usual caveat about only one photo - I think Edward looks quite good in the socks photo. The jacket seems a bit longer than is standard, but I'd say the loose cut emphasises his trim figure rather than looking ill-fitting (although the bulky gathering round a shoulder in one of the later photos is less pleasing).

As a slim woman, I often choose dresses that hang loosely but strategically: an observer can see enough to infer my figure, but there's no clinginess (the cattier take would be that I'm camouflaging my nearly non-existent cleavage!). We accept that women can wear their suit jackets tailored, boxy or oversized and we’ve had the enormous shoulder pads era (not even Diana looked good in those imo, but it must have been considered smart at the time), so perhaps men should be given more latitude to play with how they present their figure?

I feel on safer ground commenting on Sophie, but I'm a fence-sitter with regard to the green print dress - although compared with that blue horror of Mary's that everyone else seems to love it's positively great!

@KiIIingMeDeftly As ditsy patterns go that's far from being the worst: monochrome (less fussy) and with some variation in the size of the elements in the repeat, which makes it look more defined, more intentional. And green is nearly always a good choice of colour!

Long-sleeved, loose-fitting, waisted dresses might be, as @Eaumyword says, ‘wearable’, but Sophie could have so much more fun with her figure and budget. Nevertheless I do appreciate her enthusiasm for prints and patterns. Some I find hideous, but that's inevitable unless someone sticks to safe choices. Although it would be exaggerating to say she's adventurous, there's reasonable variety in her choices and her hit rate is much better than Kate's (whose rare ventures into print have made me willing to give her a pass: I will not complain if she sticks entirely to colour blocking, check suiting and the occasional polka dot dress).

I wish Catherine would dress more appropriately for her age too. She’s often dowdy and dresses how a middle aged woman in the 1960s would have dressed.
Theres only one Max, but Catherine could take some inspiration from her.
And (again) I do wish she’d cut her hair into a more modern and shorter style. It’s aging her as it is.

I don't think she dresses "like a middle aged woman in the 1960s". I think that she's dressing for a role, and not to upstage people.
Some of her evening dresses have had the "wow" factor, but the day dressing is more downplayed. I've liked some of her trouser suits lately, the Bella Freud in particular. In a way I think she's finding a transition style, without appearing too frivolous. It's a tricky balance.

I think Catherine really suits trousers/suits. I’d love to see her in an evening glam jumpsuit ( at an appropriate event like a film premiere obvs..not a state banquet!)

Something like this…in red

Without the stiletto heels though!

Day wear a uniform, muted and suitable for the occasion.

Yes, I wish she'd go for different styles of shoes.

I also like Catherine in trousers suits. So often on skirt suits I think the jacket isn't the right fit or length for her torso. I also wish she'd move away from the high heels, perhaps that's what makes her feel ready for being on show?