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venerdì 10 giugno 2016

Pink Floral Silk Dress with White Jacket and Hat

The Queen debuted this look, comprised of a marshmallow-shaped, white piqué hat with floral silk braided piping by Angela Kelly, a short collarless jacket in the same piqué fabric with braid trim and floral embellished buttons and a pink and white floral print silk dress, on 29 October 2011 on the final day of her Australian tour at the Great Aussie BBQ in Perth (Daily Telegraph article here). It is a slightly unusual style for Her Majesty, who usually favours coats and only rarely wears jackets, but one that I think was perfect for an informal occasion like a BBQ! That time the Queen accessorized with the Flame Lily brooch:
 

 
 

The dress was repeated on its own for two official photographs taken by Mary McCartney and released on 8 September 2015 to mark the day the Queen became the longest reigning monarch in British history - overtaking Queen Victoria on 9 September (Daily Mail article here). The Queen wore her pink topaz and diamond brooch:



We finally got to see the complete outfit again on 9 June 2016, on the eve of her official 90th birthday celebrations (Daily Mail article here, the outfit is erroneously referred to as new). The Queen wore it, again with the pink topaz brooch, to launch the Commonwealth Hub, which brings Commonwealth organisations together, at Marlborough House in London:



lunedì 6 luglio 2015

Pale Pink Coat and Picture Hat, Rose Print Silk Dress

This look is comprised of a collarless, single button coat in pale pink silk crepe, a very simple picture hat by Angela Kelly covered in the same fabric, with flat crown and brim, whose only trimming is a wide band around the base of the crown, and a silk dress with naturalistic roses printed in shades of grey on a pale pink background. The coat is fully lined in the same silk fabric as the dress. Pink, and roses - what's not to love?

This outfit was first seen on 21 June 2014, Day 5 of Royal Ascot, accessorized with a multi-coloured diamond brooch in the shape of a spray of roses:




I must admit I wasn't totally in love with this look first time around, but when the Queen wore it again on 5 July 2015 to attend the christening of her great-granddaughter Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, I was sold! I was finally able to notice the clever detail of the coat lining, and I thought it was the perfect pastel hue for a summer christening. Plus, HM was the only lady to wear pink, and given it was a little girl who was being christened, you have to give her bonus points for that!
The Queen wore her yellow gold and diamond Singapore Peranakan Diamond Jubilee brooch for the occasion (Daily Mail main article on the christening here, on the Queen's look here):
 
 

 




The Queen wore the dress on its own to hold audiences at Buckingham Palace on 20 July 2016 (pictured below with David Hurley, Governor of New South Wales, Twitter link here). She wore what looks like her triple diamond bar brooch:


The Queen wore the same dress and brooch to attend a preview of the "Fashioning a Reign" exhibition at Buckingham Palace. Although the image was shared only on 25 July 2016 (Twitter link here), I'm inclined to think the visit took place on the same day as the private audiences, 20 July 2016:


 

lunedì 20 aprile 2015

Peter Enrione Pink Outfit and Two Angela Kelly Hats

The Queen first wore this bright pink Peter Enrione dress and cashmere coat, with a matching  feather-trimmed hat by Angela Kelly on 21 March 2009, for a visit to the Heinz factory in Wigan, Greater Manchester, and completed the look with the Flower Basket brooch:
 
 
On 27 April 2010, the Queen was again in pink on a visit to Caernarfon Castle in Wales, this time jazzing up the outfit with the Queen Mother's Palm Leaf brooch:
 




We saw the look repeated on 17 February 2011, when the Queen visited King's Court First School in Old Windsor for its 50th anniversary, wearing her diamond and unidentified pink stone brooch:


The exact same look, down to the same brooch (this time pinned to the lapel instead of the actual coat), was worn again a couple of months later to the Royal Windsor Horse Show on 14 May 2011:


Commonwealth Observance Day at Westminster Abbey on 12 March 2012 saw the appearance of a new hat to coordinate this look, another feather-trimmed Angela Kelly creation, this time not in straw but in the same cashmere fabric of the coat. The Queen Mother's Palm Leaf brooch was chosen again:
 

 
On 23 January 2013, the Queen chose this look (sans hat, as this is a traditionally hatless engagement) for her annual visit to the Sandringham and West Newton branch of the Women's Insitute, of which she is president, a position she took over from the Queen Mother. She wore the Jardine Star brooch:
 

 
We saw the straw hat again on 21 March 2014, when the Queen visited Rambert, Britain's national dance company in London. The yellow gold Frosted Sunflower brooch was worn:



 
More than a year later, on 28 May 2015, this look, topped off with the straw hat and a multi-coloured diamond brooch in the shape of a spray of roses, came up again for the third garden party of the season at Buckingham Palace (Daily Mail article is here, scroll all the way down for photos):
 
 
 
Then, on 19 November 2015, the coat and straw hat combo made another appeareance on a visit to Birmingham, the first made by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh since the Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK in 2012 (Daily Mail article here). This time the Queen accessorized with the Jardine Star brooch:
 

 
The Queen and the Duke rode on a tram on the Metroline Tramline Extension in Birmingham sporting a rather special display annoucement:
 
 

lunedì 13 aprile 2015

Pastel Pink Tweed Angela Kelly for Engagements in Paris

On 5 June 2014, during their short State visit to France on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were received by French President Hollande at the Arc de Triomphe, where a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior took place.
The Queen looked pretty in a pastel pink, Chanel-style tweed suit with matching hat (a rather peculiar, sort of inverted-toadstool kind of hat), with cream leather accessories and her pink Williamson diamond brooch:









The Queen wore the dress on its own when she held audiences at Buckingham Palace on 13 October 2015 (below, she is shown with Her Excellency Professor Kate Warner, Governor of Tasmania, and her husband Mr Richard Warner). She wore the Cullinan V brooch:


On the 27 October 2015, the Queen repeated the suit, paired with black accessories, for a reception for the community of Commonwealth organizations she hosted together with the Prince of Wales at St James's Palace in London (Daily Mail article here). The Queen selected Queen Victoria's pearl pendant brooch to finish off her look:


It was the suit again, sans hat, for another Commonwealth engagement on 14 March 2016, the annual reception hosted at Marlborough House in London by the Secretary-General on Commonwealth Day (Daily Mail here, photos of the reception right at the bottom). This time the Queen wore one of Queen Victoria's diamond bow brooches:


With the Duke of Edinburgh and Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma.


The Queen repeated the dress on 1 November 2016, to show Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Mrs Santos a Royal Collection display of artefacts relating to Colombia, at the start of the presidential couple's 3-day State visit to the UK (Dail Mail article here). She wore the Grima ruby brooch: