Royal Style: summer's end, but not for style ❤️

[Maireas]

The end of summer lies ahead, but we're hoping for more bling!

Yes! Currently here in west London it is 38 degrees, which is horrible.

🥵 crazy.
We've got 33°c in Yorkshire, which is bad enough!

Amalia looks lovely, great colour and I like a more casual look for daytime.
Is that a Demellier bag?

Have just driven home with my car telling me it's 35°C - overcast, in Newcastle!

😲
Dry as the Gobi here as well. Awful.

I think it is a Demellier bag.
I have my eye on one- a different style and colour. I could have bought it 4 years ago in the same department store and it would have been about €200 cheaper 😮😢

No! Why is that?

I love the green and white stripes on Amalia's dress but the pictures of it by its designer show distressingly badly matched stripes. It’s hard to be sure but Amalia’s stripes seem better matched:
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A belt would have hidden things, possibly.

I presume inflation @Maireasre the bag.
Hasn’t everything gone up in price 🙄sadly.

Well, true, but that's some inflation.

There's lots of Demellier bags on Vinted and I picked up a nice cross-body a few years ago. But bottom line is that it the price is too good to be true then it's probably a scam listing!

Fair point.

Be careful with Demellier bags, I bought a gorgeous Vancouver bag, wore it cross body and the dye transferred to my clothes, took me a few wears to realise. I wrote to them and apparently it’s in the small print the dye can transfer, they refunded me 10% as a gesture, but a brand new jacket was ruined, my favourite white pants and a dress. I was so gutted, I haven’t used the bag since.

I had a designer bag my friend borrowed for a wedding. That too ran. I think she got it wet. They did manage to get the stain out though.

I didn’t get it wet at all, and I did get some of the stain out, but not all of it, especially around the pocket of the jacket and the trousers, the dress was a ribbed type fabric and it was impossible to remove from that, It’s the first time I have ever had that problem with any bag, I have a few designer ones, but all a lot more expensive than Demelier, so I guess you get what you pay for. I do love their designs though and I still look longingly at them.

That's really annoying. An expensive bag shouldn't really ruin clothes.

I suspect they're all made in China these days under their quality control so you get the look but beware.

Not Demellier, their bags are made in the EU.

Amalia's blouse is a good raspberry pink, but I don't particularly like it (no surprise there, I rarely do like very cropped tops). What's interesting however, is that I think it looks much better on her than on the model. That's partly down to how she's styled it - wide-leg white trousers are a great choice - but also, I think, to her fuller, bigger-hipped figure.

I don't think it's that cropped, but I've found that slightly cropped tends to look better with high-waisted jeans.

I agree and the high waist and shorter top is a look that is kind for those of us with tummies (I know all about that!)

In non-style news, Queen Rania is a glam granny again - to twin girls!

Is that Imam? A stylish chip off the block!

Yes, apparently the twins are called Rania and Talia.

Sweet 😊