Royal females . High heels.

[beccahamlet]

I am not a royalist, but I thought today was really special. One thing that struck me though was the high heels. They could barely walk in them, especially on the cobbles. Isn't it a shame that women have to torture themselves like this.

@The90swereadecadeago

Are we still discussing what women wear in 2021?

It's sad isn't it - a world wide pandemic, Prince Philip dying and the best mumsnet come up with is a bunfight on whether B&E wore the correct shade of tights. It's actually ignorant and shameful that we aren't discussing some his of incredible achievements and visions but oh no - the vipers come out to bitch about aristoc.

[quote DareIask]@SarahAndQuack if you didn't see a dress code then you watched something different to me 🤷‍♀️[/quote]
I didn't see a dress code. I saw people wearing stuff but at no point did I see a written instruction for what they should be wearing. What coverage were you watching that showed that?

@DareIask

I thought it a shame Beatrice and Eugenie didn't follow the queens example and wear black tights. It's what she believes is appropriate and I would have respected that and worn them, irrespective of my own tastes

Exactly. I can remember going to my grandfather’s funeral and my mum making me wear a skirt, rather than trousers because it’s what my Gran would have wanted

I went to very old fashioned girls boarding school where unbelievably we had lessons in all this stuff. The etiquette is nude or black tights but not bare legs or coloured tights . The Countess Mountbatten was also in nude tights .

[quote DareIask]@youshallnotpass9 if I as a mere commoner know that it's considered the correct etiquette I'd expect the queens grand daughters to.

And Id expect them to have the food grace to respect it.

No phone call required. [/quote]
@DareIask "Mere commoner" What makes you think these women are intrinsically better than you?

Here's a photo of the Queen and Queen Mother at George VI's funeral. No black tights! images.app.goo.gl/oAp4hScRnh9ZnUWg7

@The90swereadecadeago

Yes. Their tights and tits. This thread though! It's awful!

@The90swereadecadeago

Are we still discussing what women wear in 2021?

Discussing and criticising.

@GlencoraP

I went to very old fashioned girls boarding school where unbelievably we had lessons in all this stuff. The etiquette is nude or black tights but not bare legs or coloured tights . The Countess Mountbatten was also in nude tights .

Yes, indeed.

And if you can point us to where in the etiquette books it says 'the deceased shall be conveyed to the service in a landrover of modified design,' then you're absolutely home dry, and we can all agree this was a service predicated on the stiffest and most formal notions of etiquette. And even then, we'd all look absolute dicks pretending to know what on earth the queen though of her grandchildren's clothing, or what did or didn't motivate those women in choosing their hosiery.

(Btw, I am all of 36 and also went to a school where we had lessons on this; it's absolute nonsense and learning it formally only makes me more aware that it's an extremely pretentious thing to agonise about.)

"Have to"? Do they actually "have" to wear heels? It was more likely a choice. A foolish one, imo, but people will do strange things in the name of fashion.

@SarahAndQuack

(Btw, I am all of 36 and also went to a school where we had lessons on this; it's absolute nonsense and learning it formally only makes me more aware that it's an extremely pretentious thing to agonise about.)

Completely agree , I only commented because I felt people were making something out of nothing. I doubt the Queen cared two hoots and I sure as hell don’t think Prince Philip did .

@KillingMeDeftly

I never saw a single article about tights protocol or nail polish etc until Meghan came on the scene. It's almost as if the media invented it as a stick with which to beat her!

That’s strange, didn’t you read magazines etc? There were plenty of shocked articles on the one time Kate wore red nail polish which was considered very much against protocol. Ditto plenty of articles on the Queen’s rights protocol. Have a Google; maybe you missed them

*tights protocol

YY, @GlencoraP. I don't pretend to know what they think, but nothing in this remotely suggests Prince Philip would be looking down from the beyond to tut about women's choices of tights.

I thought they were all perfectly and respectfully dressed for what was a dignified and sombre occasion.

Nice to know misogyny is alive and kicking still . . . 😣

@NerrSnerr

Can't bloody win can they, wrong shoes, wrong tights, not feeding their baby's correctly.

Were all the men in suitable attire or is it just the women getting it so terribly wrong?

Seriously. I'm absolutely stunned at some of these posts.

People genuinely want to find fault, anything - however trivial, in these grieving young people. They should be ashamed of themselves.

But if you look at Princess Anne, there is no evidence she has a current penchant for 5-inch splindly stilettos, is there now?

I'm going to guess that not many 70-year-olds wear stilettos.

Imagine grieving for a loved one and having people watch you, scrutinise your outfit, question how you feed your baby and judge you so harshly. This is truly shitty behaviour.

Dear god that is a snippy comment regarding the breastfeeding? Would you prefer Zara and Eugenie to whip out one of their boobs mid hymn to prove the world wrong.

A lot of sniping going on about high heels, less sniping going on about a man who had a well publicised friendship with a prolific paedophile and human trafficker had the gall to walk around sweating, which we all know he can’t do due to the falklands or some such shit.

@Theimpossiblegirl

Imagine grieving for a loved one and having people watch you, scrutinise your outfit, question how you feed your baby and judge you so harshly. This is truly shitty behaviour.

Yes. I can't begin to understand people who would do this. WTF is wrong with them?

@saraclara

But if you look at Princess Anne, there is no evidence she has a current penchant for 5-inch splindly stilettos, is there now?

I'm going to guess that not many 70-year-olds wear stilettos.

That. Is. My. Point.

Is it really ‘etiquette’ to accuse grieving women of ill-grace in their clothing choices on the day of their grandfather’s funeral?

Surely not.

Very vulgar and unpleasant.

[quote DareIask]@youshallnotpass9 my comment was not ridiculous. Protocol is protocol whether you like it or not. My thoughts that it's a shame B & E chose not to follow it are perfectly reasonable.

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It was considering the whole funeral didn't follow protocol, yet you seem insistent that they should have worn black tights.

Maybe the queen said to them, wear what you feel comfortable in, yet because the express has said they had to wear black tights, you have gotten it into your head they are being disrespectful to his memory and to their own grandmother.

Maybe Prince Philip, when planning his own funeral, states the women didn't have to wear black tights.

I did think your original comment was going to win the prize but I am afraid the breastfeeding one has beaten you. Must try harder when you are judging people you know very little about