Krill9

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Who's hyper focused on skirts and dresses? I voiced one opinion on it which i can do. I never said she's not successful so now you are reading something that isn't there.

And whether or not people like it, royal fashion is a major thing and a big part of why people are interested in Kate. And that is okay! Not everyone is here for the work. I think royal watchers really overestimate how much the general public cares about the work royals do on a day to day basis, but if you want to bring more attention to it dressing like you’re not there is not the way to go. What does it matter if the fashion side takes a bigger part sometimes? Does that not just make more people get introduced to Kate’s work too, reading about what she was doing when wearing an outfit?

I’d also argue that Kate’s own communications team are not very good at communicating about her work, so to complain about the fashion interested people who follow her anyway was certainly a choice from her office.

No notes on anything you said. I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Diplomatic dressing is a whole genre of clothing itselfs clothing does matter - why else would there be exhibitions for QE2's clothes or Diana's clothes or wedding dresses?

Overall, I feel as if there isn't a clear direction in the Wales camp at the moment. It does not seem to be the well-oiled machine it once was. It is, dare i say, haphazard.

More professional than what? Do women have to dress in traditional men’s clothing to be perceived as more professional? Why can’t that be achieved wearing a pencil skirt, or say a pantsuit that includes some interesting detail (and I’m sorry but an elastic waistband is not interesting, it’s lazy designing. A tailored peplum waist otoh, yes). This is obviously a much bigger question than just royals, it goes over all society.

I also think the oversize trend is very unflattering on almost anyone and I’m glad it seems to be fading out.

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She has very much been reusing clothes she already has and in the time following her cancer diagnosis, has been repeating clothes more than any other time she’s been royal to be honest. She has only come out wearing a new suit ONCE this year, the one she wore in Italy. I think she’s diminishing her role to you because you don’t like suits and only really care about fashion so it bothers you that you aren’t liking her choices. But she isn’t diminishing her role in a general or real sense. The person I can think of who dresses most similarly to Catherine right now is CP Victoria of Sweden and she in no way diminishes her role because she wears suits the vast majority of the time. That’s just her style. And as someone who has been through illness and a depression that followed, I fully expected Kate to go through a period of being as covered up as possible and not be so glam all the time and I wasn’t as sick as she was. I don’t know why people find it so hard to see her as a human being whose wardrobe is likely to be impacted by her state of health and mind. You’d think the diagnosis would have helped served as a reminder. In the Cambridge era, she was also probably more likely to try and appease people and now she’s in her: “I have proven myself and I’m going to put a little bit more of myself out there” era now. Her job is to show up and represent the stability of Britain, it was never a dress and coat dress horse job. In many ways, the way QEII dressed prevented her from being hands and do anything and you brought that up about W&C and they are by a large margin the most hands on royals out there. Like I didn’t expect William to be in a suit riding on the back of Greg James’s bike (as he did earlier in the year). Their mantra is “dress appropriately for the event you’re attending”. Look at the world outside, stuffy royals who can’t read a room are the last thing people need. They already struggle with the royal part of their existence a lot and right now since social media is the biggest thing, I can’t imagine a normal young person for example thinking: “You know what would really help me? Wills and Kate taking every opportunity to look distinctly different than the average Brit.” Because they don’t really actually look like the average Brit if we’re going to be honest.

I don't only care about fashion so ok. As for their style my whole thing is change it up. She has things available for variety so i would like to see that. I didnt like a lot of her early stuff actually, but I did appreciate the effort to switch it up and try new things.

I genuinely think your problems stem from not paying attention which is fine but you can’t complain about what you haven’t picked up. When I think of Kate, I think of the Early Years, art, sports, the Scouts, Wimbledon and nature. When I think of William I think of the environment, sports, farming, Duchy of Cornwall, homelessness. And I still think about them as Britain because they still attend the more traditional typical bread and butter stuff. Where are the engagements where they got to do something or make something? This year they’ve been driving boats on the Thames, making crumble at Borough Market, Kate was literally making pasta in Italy yesterday, William has made and served pasties in Cornwall, Kate was in Leicester celebrating diwali, Kate has had SEVERAL engagements celebrating the textile industry and as a result has been helping sew all manner of things. They were curling in Scotland with the national team prior to the Olympics. But I do follow their engagements so I know all of this off the top of my head.