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Post by bjd on Jun 30, 2017 14:07:39 GMT
Poor Diana -- an attractive woman but with terrible taste in clothes in the first few years. That coat for the visit to Italy is awful. I wonder who advised her?
I remember a French fashion magazine doing an article where they redid photos of her dressed well, without the dowdy clothes and horrible hats. She did improve as she got older.
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Post by lagatta on Jun 30, 2017 15:14:50 GMT
Yes, she became much more stylish after the end of such hands-on control by "The Firm". That plaid coat was utterly dreadful, and exaggerated even in terms of 1980s style. The Queen and Princess Margaret seemed to do better as young women in tune with their times, but then the "New Look" was fairly fairy-princess to begin with, with its great skirts in reaction to wartime austerity. My mother would tell me how happy she was to be able to purchase all that fabric and make herself a beautiful dress. Every Canadian hotel lobby and lots of other places had those portraits of the Queen as a glamorous young woman, and many kept those until she was well into middle age. www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2153177/queen-elizabeth-ii-b-1926nbspon-her-coronation-day
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 30, 2017 21:33:57 GMT
I just hated those big boxy shoulders in 1980s clothing. Ha! I have what I prefer to think of as "Rita Hayworth" shoulders and believe me, they don't need any help. I knew a woman who would go up to other women sporting those awful lumps in the shoulders of their blouses. She'd poke the shoulder pad and say, "Oh how clever -- you found a place to stash your Kotex!" That coat for the visit to Italy is awful. I wonder who advised her? That plaid coat was utterly dreadful, and exaggerated even in terms of 1980s style. If you look at that coat-dress on the display, it's really not bad. But why oh why is it two or three sizes too big for her? Even the sleeves are too long. So strange. Every Canadian hotel lobby and lots of other places had those portraits of the Queen as a glamorous young woman, and many kept those until she was well into middle age. I always thought she was the beauty, rather than Margaret. That Cecil Beaton portrait is proof positive that photography can be art.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 30, 2017 21:50:52 GMT
The last two pictures above make it obvious that the benefits of having garments perfectly and exclusively made for ones own body cannot be underestimated.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 30, 2017 21:59:10 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Jun 30, 2017 23:54:13 GMT
Bixa, I was not dissing anyone's actual shoulders! Not yours' nor Rita Hayworth or Grace Jones. I wish I had shoulders that would keep bags from sliding from my decidedly Victorian sloping ones...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 1, 2017 0:32:00 GMT
Ha ha, LaGatta ~ I didn't feel that you were! I was merely pointing out that, awful as the shoulder pads were, they were even worse on women already sufficiently shouldered. Note that Diana definitely didn't need them either.
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