Just Like Us! Princess Anne Is A Repeat Dresser

Let's not for one minute suggest that Princess Anne's decision to dig out the dress she wore to her brother's first wedding in 1981 for another family wedding 27 years later was remotely connected to thriftiness. Anyone who can afford a designer dress, and has the space to store decades worth of posh clothes in palatial wardrobes, isn't too concerned about her bank balance. No, Anne's decision to recycle - or, to use the appropriate fashion parlance for this phenomenon, to repeat - a floral print piecrust-edged wrap dress is actually a common fashion practice. Repeating works when you are a Hollywood star keen to rebut the accusation that you are a profligate, neurotic clotheshorse who can't conceive of wearing the same thing twice. It also works when you can faultlessly reinvent a look with a subtle stylistic twist, such as adding a new accessory. But it doesn't work when, as Anne demonstrates, you unthinkingly repeat an outfit almost exactly, decades on.

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Comments

[greymen]

I doubt anyone is looking to this dour, plain princess for fashion tips, especially in this lemon meringue nightmare.

[MsLiz]

I admire her for being able to fit into a dress she wore in 1981.