Do posh wedding guests have any more clue than we do?

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Looking at the coverage of Peter Phillips’ wedding I’m amazed by some of the outfits. Clearly a lot of these people have money but it really doesn’t show - some of the choices look very unstylish to me. Creased dresses, raffia wedges, mismatched accessories. I appreciate it was a rubbish day weather-wise so may have needed a few last minute rethinks but what hope is there for the rest of us when even those with access to the best designers and a presumably healthy budget look pretty average at best.

I think that S&B is a hyper focused place to discuss sartorial choices. The vast majority of people dont give it as much thought but here every detail is pored over.

I'm not criticising btw, it's just that its farly unusual to have somewhere where there are so many interested people commenting on clothes choices and appropriateness for the occasion.

Aristocrats are the last place I'd look for style inspiration

I think you’re right and it’s the same as when you see celebrities and think they have money and stylists and they don’t look for example the best they possibly could and you wonder how (and also worry because if they can’t look amazing with a team what hope would any of us have!!)

Maybe many of them aren't particularly into fashion and just want to turn up at a family wedding looking reasonably appropriate.

What one “class” find stylish another really doesn’t. It’s ludicrous to think your view is “the” view.

I thought "mismatched accessories" was right? We get criticised if everything matches, ie "matchy matchy".

Old money and landed gentry don’t care what they look like. They particularly don’t care what other people think they look like. Caring about your appearance and the opinions of others is frightfully bourgeois.

It depends on the ‘set’. MN says all the time ‘no one wears hats to weddings any more’.

I went to a wedding 2 years ago that, while not RF, was very much posh country. And hats were absolutely de rigueur.

It’s the same at every royal wedding with posh people.

What were you expecting? Black tie attire? That would be considered entirely inappropriate unless stipulated in the invite. Wedding generally = smart not slinky! These aren’t people trying to make a quick buck as influencers - they have lives in the real world where people generally have more important things to do than pour over photos of events that aren’t theirs and be bitchy🤷🏼‍♀️

Just less insecure about what other people think and are comfortably knowing summer garden party dresses are wedding appropriate and therefore they fit the bill without obsessing over other elements.

They clearly have a better grasp of the concept that you don't have to look super polished and dressed for an evening do to have an enjoyable relaxed time.

The only criticism I’ve seen really was about Princess Anne who as usual wore something from many moons ago and accessorised with rather practical shoes and bag. I think this is just Princess Anne being herself. People on here have said the bag was navy and the shoes were black but I think that’s highly unlikely and we haven’t seen a good enough photo to say for sure. Also Sophie’s bag was pointed out as an odd choice. I didn’t see anyone who looked inappropriately dressed for the occasion, although Catherine came in for the usual mauling for being ‘frumpy’ and Beatrice’s dress was roundly derided as usual, despite them both looking perfectly nice. It was a family wedding in the bride’s parish church, not a London fashion parade. If anything the most admired David Linley girlfriend was a tad overdressed.

I think it’s about knowing how to dress appropriately for the occasion. At a wedding, the bride’s the star and it’s polite not to try to outshine her.

It’s also the practicality of a damp english summer day. I’m sure they all had their dresses steamed and pressed but if it’s 15 mins to the church in the car on a soggy day that means creases no matter what. high heels are no good on cobbles and sink into damp lawn. I think you are being a bit harsh. Another one was Dua Lipa who got married in a Schiaparelli suit and suddenly there are thousands of people online slagging off the cut, the fabric etc. It may be a glamorous life these folk lead but it’s still different to a photoshopped fashion shoot.

Judging by what some people on here link for suggestions I would agree these guests at society weddings are much better dressed.

Posh country folk are notoriously badly dressed.

I hate matching accessories!

Posh people can lack style just as much as poor people. Money doesn't buy taste and style.

I thought the same and found it very refreshing! They are dressed for the bride and groom and don't give a shit about the paps. All the outfits are lovely but with a touch of being thrown together. I can imagine they also go through the same hell trying to get small children dressed and to the church on time. Losing last min hair clips or socks, a bit of shouting, tears etc.

Do we know that all the guests were 'posh'?

Raffia wedges are out?! 😭

She's an NHS nurse so presumably a lot of her friends are on NHS staff budgets so not minted.

I just googled it and they all look ok to me. I especially,liked the bridesmaids dresses.

I thought it was great. Such a relief to see normal clothes (and figures) without it being overdone or pretentious.

It amazes me that anyone is bothered enough to wonder whether the wedding guests were sufficiently ‘stylish’. But I dare say I should know by now.

I think, in that set (having gone to an English aristocratic country wedding years ago and getting the dress code very wrong, I still wince at the memory ), that weddings, functions, the races, the Season’s annual round of parties and events, mean that getting a bit dressed up is very normal and so not such a fuss is made about it. The agonising for months about what one will wear to a wedding, just doesn’t happen. You thrown on something from a wide selection of formal to semi formal clothes that you already own, because it’s not the single major smart event of your year/decade. Just one of many that summer.