Personally, I will never get tired of the Duchess of Cambridge’s enthusiasm and affection for giant buttons. Kate LOVES buttons. She wants to marry buttons. She wants to add buttons to all of her clothes. So Kate chose a very special and very buttony coat for her activities today at an RAF base in Cambridgeshire. Kate’s Valentine’s Day event was announced last week, and she’s there as part of her patronage with the RAF Air Cadets. This was the patronage forced on her two Christmases ago and she’s only done two events (I think?) for the patronage since she got it. This is the third event, I’m pretty sure.
For this V-Day event, Kate wore a red, buttony blazer by Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini. According to the Daily Mail, the blazer retails for £760 (or roughly $1000). Does this look like a $1000 blazer? With those giant gold buttons, I suspect you could find something similar (and similarly dated) in any Salvation Army or thrift store. Kate also wore black skinny jeans (natch) and black boots with a flat heel, so she gets some bonus points for A) not wearing heels and B) not wearing wedges.
You can read more about Kate’s visit here at People Mag, the outlet which still insists on calling her “Princess Kate.” Apparently, Kate got to try out a flight simulator and the RAF dudes were impressed with her gentle touch on the controls. I bet she has a soft and steady touch because she plays so much tennis (I’m not joking).
At @RAFWittering1, @aircadets are learning safe weapon handling as part of their half term skills development camp pic.twitter.com/opN8gdVB5y
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) February 14, 2017
Photos courtesy of Getty.
This woman and her facial expressions…
yup. very creepy.
Seriously. Looks so forced to me. Her hair looks nice that way. And she doesn’t mess around with it like she does when it’s inher face.Love the blazer though. I have one just like it, love the length, and I am a button lover too. It’s Valentine’s Day so I am full of love. For my blazer I mean!
She always does things like that.
Some people even say she looks like she is on meds.
The DM has more pix of her bizarre facial expressions at this event, plus one of crazy hair!
This one is hilarious:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/14/12/3D331F0B00000578-4223046-image-a-31_1487075412263.jpg
Just looked through the pictures in the DM article. Wow, somebody over there must hate her!
But her face is moving! I’m so confused! Wasn’t it just yesterday that she’d had 30 surgical procedures done on everything from her eyelids to her chin? 😉
Does your chin move when you make a Joker expression? Just asking. Also, the cheeks are obviously plumped up. The eyebrows aren’t arching together. Hmmm. Wonder what happened?
Chopper, must be sleeping with her again !!!
Horrible Outfit! That smile though…. could it be more fake?
Sorry but Kate looks older than 35.
I think she is theme dressing today. Buttons = military in the (awful) look.
Agreed, that and Valentine’s Day. I hate this outfit. Does anyone have a total on how many events she’s done this year?
I could deal with the jacket but does she own normal trousers? She has never been in public in anything but spray on jeggings (there are shot of her pulling them up at one point and grabbing her ass for no apparent reason). This is not normal. What woman in her 30s does not own at least one pair of non skin tight jeggings?
Sugars are saying that the painted-on pants were necessary for climbing in and out of the plane. Can’t make this stuff up.
That would be why all flight suits for male and female members of the military are skintight jeggings. Oh wait. So many excuses for her inappropriate attire, so little time.
Leggings are tacky AF given the extremely conservative institution she represents. But I guess the leggings are better than when she climbed into a plane wearing that white and blue flowered dress.
http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/255/066/4/S2550664/slug/l/485570009-1.jpg
She even completed the Valentines theme with heart earrings.
I’m not a fan of the Cambridges at all, but I kind of love her love of theme dressing.
It’s interesting that the Daily Mail’s headline is about her butt lol
Gawd, some of the photos the DM has are horrible. Doesn’t Kate realize that she’s being photographed when pulling her pants up?? Or is some sort of exhibitionist thing? I can’t believe this woman might someday be the Queen of England. Sorry England!
Yas, I was coming to say the same thing… so many pics of her hiking up her drawers. Damn those pants are tight.
Considering that she has had her skirts fly up on more than one occasion and shown to be wearing a thong on official business, they yes I believe we can say she is an exhibitionist.
She was spoken to for her excessive mooning back in her days at Malborough.
But yeah, let’s go after Meghan for her tv love scenes.
I saw that too. It means the skinny jeans were super tight. She could have bothered at least to put a belt.
Circus ringleader!
Lol yes!
I do feel for her though when people comment on how crazy she looks sometimes. There are many pictures of me laughing with my mouth wide open or my face looking cray that make me cringe but that’s just me. I guess I’m just naturally animated and it can come out looking really crazy in still photos. Over the last few years when we are at family gatherings I’ve even tried to consciously keep my mouth shut and be more subdued butt it’s hard.
Nothing wrong with being animated. Shouldn’t have to force yourself to be “subdued.”
Animated vs. over-the-top facial expressions to pretend she has any interest in the world around her? Learning to control your facial expressions on the job is an important skill.
But the difference between “animated” vs. “over the top” is a matter of perspective, isn’t it?
Maybe you should visit a Kate fan page, this is CB.
I hope my Mom doesn’t see this. I just convinced her to get rid of an almost identical blazer (Talbots circa 1990) on the basis that, other than on twee hipsters, such a blazer looks stupid.
Exactly!!! Looks just like a Liz Claiborne one I had back in the day too.
Yes! I had a yellow one exactly like it. LOL And I wore it with leggings and riding boots, It was my go-to outfit.
I keep hearing the 90s are back but I didn’t think THIS kind of 90s look….
Yawn…but yay for actually working.
Chipmunk cheeks.
She had some work done, guess fillers again.
I wish she would get a new haircut, her long mop is just too much. Jmo
Yes! She would look so much better.
The back is a weave-wig-portion, in the Daily Mail photos you can see where her hair underneath peaks out of botton and wig-weave is attached at top, even the hair is different.
The Daily Mail photos are skannn—y she looks gross, pulling her pants up and feeling her rear. I DON’T get the hype with this woman, she’s nothing special except for her title. She comes off bizarre and looks cheap with those horrid jeggings.
Needs a makeover.
I see she let her hair loose again a la track race.
I hope this doesn’t become a pattern.
I don’t understand why she does this??? She comes to a function with her hair appropriately fixed and later pulls it out to let it flow all over the place? Does she think this makes her sexy and is this what she’s after?
Regarding the faces, the only one I really dislike and don’t understand is the big mouth. Do I really have to see how far she can open her mouth at every chance?
Kate is so lazy she counts the hair down look as another engagement within the original engagement then she hopes years from now the younger generations will view Google images of her and believe (fooled) she was so hard working and didn’t waste money on new outfits.
As for the maniacal looks? I don’t know. Maybe she found out William secretly booked a private jet for them leaving tonight for Mustique?
The blazer really didn’t bother me at first, until I scrolled down and saw the pockets. I think that’s what’s making it look cheap. It’s bad enough that they’re the tacked on type (rather than hidden in a seam), but they’re sagging at the bottom.
I’d ask for my money back for that sad thing.
I would never pay £760 for that blazer.
Letizia also wears tight pants but she somehow manages to pull it off! I wonder why they look so inappropriate on Kate?!
Kate pulls them off well enough imo, but because she’s not well-liked and not particularly stylish, people are less inclined to give her a pass.
Pulls them off? More like pulls them up, on video and in pictures. If she has to wear these skintight pants, she should stop hiking them up or lifting her blazer to show off her butt during the engagement. A belt would be a big help.
Alrighty, Dee Dee! I’m not inclined to watch video of the woman or click over to the Daily Mail for pics, so I’ll take your word for it when you say she was “showing off her butt during the engagement.”
Letizia wears fitted trousers. I don’t remember her ever showing up at work in skin-tight skinny jeans.
Lobbit, dress code doesn’t care if you think KM can pull off wearing skinny jeans.
Nota, I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say here.
It doesn’t matter if you think KM can pull off wearing, or if you think she looks good in them. She has a work dress code, whether you (or she) like it or not. Jeggings and skinny jeans are not on the list.
Where does one find this dress code for royal “work?” Can you hook me up with a link? And surely there must be some official channel for lodge a complaints about Royal who flout their “work” dress code? I swear Harry was at an event recently WITHOUT a tie – something needs to done about that, don’t you think?
Seriously though, where is the dress code and who enforces it? Surely if skinny jeans are against the code somebody would’ve told KM by now.
HM has dress codes for people who have dinner with her, who attend horse races with her, and yes for her “staff” including Kate Middleton. That’s why you see all the other royal ladies sticking to the hems-to-the-knee, heels lower than 3 inches, etc. Diana talked about it in old documentaries, one about planning a tour.
I have no doubt she’s been told, by multiple courtiers. Just like William, she only does what she wants or what she thinks he likes. William takes pride in ignoring advice, he’s said so in interviews. She follows his lead. She wants to wear skinny jeans and show off her ass, so she does.
Its because its either jeans or jeggings – trousers would be much better on her, I liked the skinny gap trousers she wore a few years ago. it was a good look for her.
If you look back at the pics, those skinny gap “trousers” are pretty much just skinny jeans with a pattern.
http://wantherstyle.blogspot.com/2016/09/kate-middleton-in-navy-blazer-and-blue.html
I think she looks great.
I do, too. If her hair was tied back the whole time, it’d be perfect. I think her make-up was great, she looked involved, seemed to be having fun. I just don’t understand the hate-on for her today. People bitch when she’s not working, and bitch when she does (and YES, I’m aware this is CeleBITCHY 😊 ).
I’m actually truly impressed about the flight simulator. Those tend to be very difficult to manage for someone trained. I was a maintainer/specialist and was able to play around with one and failed misearably. Granted the flyers failed miserably on our simulators also.
It wouldn’t surprise me if she was actually good at it. Didn’t she take flying lessons? Mind you, even if she was terrible at it, it’s not like anyone there would ever admit it. It would’ve been terribly ungracious of them.
She did say she took flying lessons. But today the Daily Mail reports she said she has never flown.
It was reported she was taking flying lessons, before either child arrived. It was during her initial “I’m just a stay at home housewife I cannot work” bit. Plenty of time to take flying lessons, no time to do royal engagements.
She looks delusional.
She looks and acts like she’s on something! It’s very immature.
And some people are just determined to find fault whatever she does. And some “newspapers” are determined to find the most unflattering photos to print. And I’m not a great fan of the Cambridges before anyone asks.
While I do understand what you’re saying Spidey, I just want to add that if you know photographers are everywhere and will be shooting you non-stop why on earth would you wear something that you have to pull up or adjust constantly? I mean Kate had to have known that her back was to the cameras while pulling her pants up her butt, if she’s willing to be photographed doing that, then she should know that those photos are going to be published.
Meh, I think she’s sort of careless and immature tbh.
I’m not a fan either – but people are so over the top with the criticism of this woman, that I can’t help but defend her. Honestly, the level of nitpicking that happens with KM is INSANE. “She’s too thin, her shoulders are too wide, her hair is too long, she wears her hair down too often, she gets her updo’s wrong, she’s too private, she’s too showy, she dresses too matronly, she’s too apathetic, she’s too animated, she wears too much makeup, she wears nude lipstick too often, she looks too old, she’s had too much botox, she wears her engagement ring too often.” It. Never. Stops.
The problem is, this is the story, Instead of highlighting the Royal Air Force cadets, we get highlights of the jeggings, her OTT facial expressions, and Kate’s hair flopping around. If she was more in tune with her charities, she’d have made the story about them. Her carelessness puts the story on her. Other royals do their job on a daily basis and they get it. They wear work appropriate clothing, keep their hair under control and highlight the daily work of people who care about making a difference.
DeeDee, I could agree with you on your last two points if not for the fact that the endless faultfinding happens no matter the “appropriateness” of her appearance . Just look at the last KM posts covering her “work” and witness the many, many, many comments lamenting how “old” she looks or how long her hair is or how thin she is or how she’s GASP wearing her engagement ring IN PUBLIC AGAIN.”
Personally, I think Kate is bland – and that’s OK because not everyone can be interesting and stylish, but even on the odd occasion when Kate manages to choose the right outfit and hairstyle, the “story” is always about what she got wrong.
Honestly, I don’t think CB would continue to run these Katie Bucket threads if the most severe thing people can gossip about is how bland she is.
Go back to posts on CB when Kate and William got married. She and William started out with so much public favor. They’ve squandered it quickly.
DeeDee, yes I know – they don’t work and that’s why people dislike them. I get that and, regardless of how laughable I find the premise of “working royals,” I think that particular bit of criticism is well-earned. That’s not what I take issue with, though. My problem is the (incredibly) petty fault finding: the snide comments about Kate trying to look like Diana (“Look at that creepy Kate wearing a dress – DIANA WORE DRESSES!!1”), the finger wagging over stupid, STUPID stuff like her wearing her damned engagement ring, the concern trolling over her weight, the jibes about her “boyish” figure.
I don’t think you see that from all the posters. Some people come and go. Others have a consistent dislike for certain things, like the nude pumps or those awful wedges. The Diana thing I could see in certain instances, like the mosque in Malaysia outfit was definitely channeling Diana, but every buttony red blazer is not a tribute to her deceased MIL. Red is one of the colors of the flag, so red and blue are going to happen a lot. Some of this is reaction to the fawning press trying to make her into a fashion icon.
I agree with you lobbit, word for word.
Another Diana-like, double-button blazer. And the skinny jeans? Had to find some way to flash us again.
Why does she keep changing her hair mid-engagement? She did this the other day too. Hair was down, then put up because it needed to be out of the way, then she had to take it down again. If you are doing something at work that requires your hair to be up, put it up at the start of the day and don’t fuss with it. Has to be about her hair and her ass every time.
I think Diana had a dress like that as well – big buttons always remind me of the 80s.
Just shows where exactly her mind is, and it’s not at the work she’s doing
Oh FFS, EVERYONE wears something “Diana-like” EVERY DAY! Can no one (esp. KM) ever wear buttons, because “Diana wore it”? Can no one wear white? Diana wore white. So, if KM wears white, she’s copying Diana. Diana wore blue, gasp! KM is copying Diana, she’s wearing blue! And on and on, ad nauseam. Yes, I’ll grant that the polka dot dress she wore after giving birth to George was a Diana-homage, but for goodness sake, there’s little left to wear if KM never wears a color or item that Di wore, too. JMO…
She SWFs her late mother in law too often for it to be coincidence. Creepy, not coincidence.
Would love to see her in a pair of bonafide pants/trousers, i.e. Non stretchy/skinny.
Over on IG there is a shit of her hiking up the waist of these pants.
She does own at least one pair of non-skin-tight trousers. I remember them from photos of the dating years. She also used to own at least one slip, because when she used to flash attending weddings as “the girlfriend” the slip would show. Guess she doesn’t remember trousers and slips exist now.
She looks like she came out of a 1986 ‘Top Gun meets Sloane Square’ themed photo shoot.
Ha!
On Barneys and Net-A-Porters websites it cost $1515. It reminds me of the Balmain/H&M ones, which were nicer I think and cost a teensy bit of the price.
What was very noticeable (aside from the manic faces and tight jeans) was the lack of reporters with her. Think Simon Perry (people mag) and one of the photographers were there. Everyone else were with the Queen and Camilla, even Chris Jackson wasn’t with her.
Three women have coats exactly like that, except presumably much cheaper. It’s a popular design this winter.
She is so freaky
The blazer is passable and she suits the colour. She wore flats and not nude courts or wedges. At one point she had her hair in a pony tail and it looked nice. That’s the positives.
The negatives – the maniacal expressions, the spray-on jeans and the hair hanging loose.
This sudden burst of activity from the Keenbridges suggests that someone has had a quiet word about stepping up the pace. Whiny was also out and about at Centrepoint today or yesterday. With this increase in appearances the poor snowflakes will need a holiday to recover.
They both appear to have a week off now. Time to run to a tropical location or have another secret skiing holiday.
She looks great!
I’d guess that this is her idea of a military valentine.
Yes, 2 themes with one blazer! LOL!
I liked this outfit until I sae the pics of her hiking up the too tight jeans
Fail.
The jacket is ugly and doesn’t fit properly. Facial expressions are bizarre. This woman has no decorum. I’m wondering if the jeans can be any more form-fitting.
The hair isn’t bad, and I like the boots. That’s all.
I agree : no decorum. The daily mail has a pic of Kate from behind. She’s standing like John Wayne, feet a mile apart and hands vanishing towards the front, like a man emptying his bladder. Beyond unfortunate.
$1000 for a bellhop’s jacket? Sickenly inapppropriate.
From her lack of decorum, constantly raising her jacket to yank her jeans up, she is displaying a lack of inhibition that only the inebriated have or those on drugs. Conclusion: she is high on anti anxiety medication. A pharmaceutically enhanced duchess.
Lol!
Well I hope she’s not trying for another baby on those meds. And I’m really surprised no one from HM’s inner circle by now has read the riot act to Kate with regard to her outfits and the way she carries herself. My guess is everyone is trying to keep William happy.
Spot on and in the last pic she looks like a cheap go go dancer.
Firstly military jackets seem to be creeping back in fashion wise, but jeans tucked in boots is so yesteryear it’s unbelievable. Walk around London and very rarely do you see the jean boot marriage. I was hoping that you would put up the photograph from daily fail of her pulling up her jeans with her legs spread wide emphasising has pert buttocks. I was. Quite surprised at this picture because talk about desperately trying to draw attention to her slim legs and lovely figure. However, has she got some inferiors complex or is it not enough she has been photographed over the last few days.
Is there not an Ann Taylor Loft over there for this poor woman to get a pair of dress pants? Banana Republic? It isn’t hard.
Too many gold buttons. Good Lord! Where in the world did she find this 80s reject? Which isn’t as bad as the boots and the skin tight, bum hugging jeggings. No words for how ridiculous she looks.
I used to sell Ralph Lauren blazers like this one to elderly ladies in Scottsdale, AZ. Kate needs to look to younger women like Anne Hathaway or Emma Watson for classy and ladylike appearance clothing.
Well, she appears to be having a lot of fun. lol.
Someone please please get this woman into a pair of sleek modern smart TROUSERS!!! It is time to ditch the skinny jeans for official events! And for the love of god try out some new style of shoes/boots.