Ajay the tailor speaks about the flower girl dresses

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11620179/Tailor-centre-Meghan-Kates-bridesmaid-dress-row-speaks-out.html

No surprises here. Days before the wedding the dresses didn’t fit. Couture gowns, made by Givenchy from measurements sent in. This tailor worked day and night but they had all six dresses to fix. It’s obvious they couldn’t get it all done. They really needed remade.

I think we can see why Kate was upset and why Charlottes dress and some of the other younger flower girls dresses looked awful.

It's all a bit dramatic sobbing on the floor why would you not sit on your sofa from sofa.com you paid for it use it

I shouldn't have laughed at that, but I did 😳🤣

Doesn't make it verbatim transcripts either. Which is how people are reading it, like it's exactly what Kate said and he's "released" the messages, when he's done nothing of the sort.

I am pretty sure from Valentine Low's book, and the Telegraph article by Camilla Tominey, that the story of Kate crying, came from witnesses who were there at the time.
I do not think Queen Camilla had anything to do with it, unless she was there, which would seem very unlikely as she was not having a flower girl dress by Givenchy.
Harry fails to understand that members of staff (especially if they are disgruntled by bullying), will leak stories anonymously, which is nothing to do with Charles or Camilla.
(Yes, I know, the reporter on the Telegraph is also named Camilla - last name Tominey)
Also, it is clear from some stories circulating, that staff members witnessed events.

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I was pretty surprised by that too. We bought our bridesmaid's dresses months before the wedding. There were melt-downs, panic email ('I look awful!'), alterations, but plenty of time to sort and no fallings out. As bride it's your job to make sure your bridesmaids are happy, so I think it's a bit unreasonable of Meghan to blame this all on Kate. It also wasn't Kate's fault that Meghan had fallen out with her dad!

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It seems the issue is that, when the story broke in the newspapers in a quite a one-sided way, Meghan and Harry wanted Kate's staff to phone the journalist and tell her that the story wasn't true. According to Harry's own account, Kate and William phoned Harry and Meghan and said lots of sympathetic things, but wouldn't agree to make any attempt to correct the story. Harry guesses that this is because their advisers had told them that the journalist might ask them what really happened, which would make them look ridiculous. Harry felt like he and his wifer were thrown under a bus to protect Will and Kate (a bit of a theme)

I agree with the advisers. Commenting on silly, petty gossip like this would make them look rather foolish. Rather like Harry and Meg look now for constantly bringing this up!

I think Meghan lost face and the last person in the world she wanted to hear from about the dresses was Kate who seems to be a thorn in Meghan’s side.

I could just imagine myself saying something like - I wouldn’t have minded so much if it had been anyone but her.

Are you just coming up to speed? Those are not real text messages. The daily mail mocked them up.

And Harry himself explained: "Whatever the cause, my memory is my memory, it does what it does, gathers and curates as it sees fit, and there's just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts."

Can someone be released from an NDA? I wonder if the palace will release the staff at Givenchy so they can tell the press what happened 😀

I see what you mean, Cariadz. It does seem as if Meghan felt she had lost face and Kate was maximising rather than minimising the problem, which wasn't helping to steady Meghan's nerves.

Did Meghan feel that Kate was giving off a vibe of my fashion house (Alexander McQueen) is superior to your fashion house(Givenchy)? Had Meghan prevaricated rather too long over designs and things had been running terribly behind schedule so she felt a bit responsible?

Whatever happened, I imagine Meghan thought Kate was stating the obvious. All the dresses needed to be completely remade. Ideally. But this was an impossible task for Givenchy to carry out to their own high standards in the time left and they had refused to even attempt it. So it was quick fix time with the local tailor.

Meghan knew that. Kate knew that. And what Meghan needed was a text from Kate that said: 'Great that you've found a tailor willing to take on the job.' It'll be ok - maybe the dresses won't be perfect but they'll look fine on camera, don't worry. I'm sure Charlotte will be happy with her dress when it's fixed. When should I get her over to Ajay? Big hugz, hun. Fancy a brew?'

We only have Harry that said these texts said x,y,z. I think it’s been shown the book is full of inaccuracies, so his account can’t be trusted.

however, even if we are to take that these words have been said, we don’t know if he is quoting the full text message, part of the text message, or all the messages regarding the fittings

For example:

kate could have wrote in her final text message where she supposedly have said a curt ‘ok’

She could have wrote ‘ ok, will go round this morning and get everything sorted’
Technically, Harry wouldn't lying, he would just be quoting part of a text. He also wouldn’t be changing the meaning of the text. But what it could do is change the tone of the exchange. We don’t actually see a picture of the text exchange.

Harry’s version of events aren’t to be trusted

All of this has been lifted out of Meghan's diary . Since her recollections vary, perhaps the ghost writer should have been more careful.
It is also a lesson not to write your life story while you are still young and the problems you had are ongoing and documented via various, credible sources. There may be money to be made this way, but only if your alibi is watertight.

Would Meghan not have garnered more sympathy if she had been more open about the serious problems with the dresses in the telling of the story? Bringing Kate into it and making her the significant factor was confusing.

I do think Meghan deserved her place on the weeping seat. It sounds stressful. But Kate deserved her place on the weeping seat too, even if to a lesser extent. It's odd that Meghan couldn't countenance the idea of both of them crying.

maybe kate refused to take charlotte for the proper alterations as suggested by Meghan. it looked that way from the pics of the dress! sounds like she was offered a solution but refused to follow through with it, maybe to snub meghan somehow, show what awful dresses meghan was responsible for on the world stage etc.

Hmmm. Could be that Charlotte's dress was the last one to get into the hands of the 'quick fix' tailor because Kate was hesitant, so there was less time to sort it.

Ajay has said it was six dresses. I can't imagine he would have attempted the alterations without a fitting, being handed a dress and told this doesn't fit and being expected to make it fit without seeing the person who is going to wear it doesn't make sense to me. I admit I am not any kind of dressmaker.

Right because she would do that to her own child just to get back at Meghan. Ludicrous

but it honestly doesn't look like that dress was altered. No tailor would leave the dress looking like that. Kate was offered a solution, it sounds as though they didn't take it up, whether that was intentional to snub, stubbornness, or not (maybe due to being too busy with newborn)

But why did Ajay say he worked on all the dresses? Is it not more likely, if some of the dresses looked better, which seems to be the case, that the difference was having more time to work on some of the other dresses?

maybe Ajay is just a rubbish tailor or missed it. Seems to me that the issue here is with the tailor if he did work on it as he claims.

Nowhere does it say Kate didn;t take Charlotte, even in Harry's version the last thing she says is fine. But if the dress needed remade there is a limit to how much it could be taken in - those who know sewing can see the neck is already "off" which is a sign of it being altered, but they probably couldn't alter it any more. It's more likely that some of the dresses were better than others to start with, and therefore more successfully altered

Doesn't explain the hem, but neither does Charlotte not being fitted. Nothing explains that hem!

Meghan would never mention she sent the wrong measurements,

Feeling proud of the tiny bit of knowledge about dressmaking I think I've picked up on this thread I'm going to say no ,no ,no .
Taking measurements is surely a skilled job and wouldn't be left to an un trained person .

They would if they didn’t have the skill set to alter a such a bespoke dress. The tailor wasn’t the designer, didn’t cut the patterns and so forth. You cannot alter a dress that needs to be made again. You are saying a tailor wouldn’t leave it this way, so you are saying this is how the atelier supplied the dresses? The poor man had days to alter 6 dresses. He did what he could with his team, mistakes were made clearly. But the fault does not rest with him. That is simply what happens when you don’t organise bridesmaids fittings and leave everything last minute.