Kate’s dress: homage to the queen or a reference to the wedding dress?

Yet Alexander McQueen it’s still White but the outfit that Kate left for the military parade that took place in Kingston on the last day in Jamaica. The Dukes of Cambridge have already flown to the Bahamas for the final commitments of the Caribbean tour that the two are facing on behalf of Queen Elizabeth who this year celebrates her 70th anniversary.
The meanings attributed to the choice of dress for the Commissioning Paradeparade in honor of service personnel from all over the Caribbean, are many.

We are talking about a quote of the wedding dress given the white lace and the hand that made the tailored garment, Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen. There are those who instead invite you to note the similarities between this dress and one worn by Elizabeth on her tour of Australia in 1954 as the first reigning monarch to visit the Commonwealth country.

Some have already renamed it the moment My Fair Lady of Kate as Eliza Doolittle at Ascot and we would not be surprised to see the horse racing dress again as white lace is one of the recurring motifs of his participation in the equestrian event. The reason, however, could also be trivial: to match the white “tropical” uniform of William of the Blues and Royals of the British army.

Coming to the details, the hat is from Philip Treacy while the décolleté of Emma London and the clutch of Anya Hindmarch. The most important piece, with all due respect to the earrings loaned by ElizabethAnd the three-strand pearl bracelet that belonged to Diana that the princess showed off together withElvis dress on the 1989 Hong Kong tour. The Duchess wore the relic on her wrist for the first time on her visit to Germany in 2017 and most recently at the G7 summit last July.

After the parade, we soon enjoyed two “airport” outfits, now a real catwalk for reality. For goodbye to Jamaica, the dress could only be green recalling one of the colors of the flag. The signature of the dress already recorded in the chronicles is of Emilia Wickstead: if you think it has already been seen, it’s because you wore it a Wimbledon in July 2021. He thought about making the ensemble special the brooch with the appearance of a kind of hummingbird found only in Jamaica called Jamaican National Doctor Bird. A piece donated by the country to the queen in 2002 on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee.

It is always of Emilia Wickstead but it is a bespoke brand new, the duchess’s dress for the arrival in the Bahamas and for the subsequent visit to Prime Minister Philip Davis and his wife Ann-Marie. The nuance chosen is turquoise and, perhaps needless to underline it, turquoise is one of the colors of the country’s flag. It is thought that the envelope-shaped clutch was made specifically for the occasion for a sort of pendant with the neckline.
For earrings, Kate again turned to Sézane, a certainty in her casket when the Duchess wants to look like one of us in her purchases: the price of these jewels is 95 euros. To make us almost a little thought.

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