The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge did a costume change on Tuesday for the second phase of their royal tour, Day 1. Obviously, they had to do some kind of photo-op with Guinness, so here they are at the Gravity Bar at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin. Kate was once again keen in green, or Keen & Green, or performatively GREEN. Bless her heart! While this ensemble did not involve giant bespoke, bejeweled buttons (for no reason), it did involve shiny, cheap-looking fabric and ruffles at the sleeve and hem. The dress is by The Vampire’s Wife. It reminds me (strongly) of the shiny green dresses Princess Beatrice wore to several weddings and events last year.
Kate and William “met locals from the worlds of the creative arts, sports, business and charity” at a party hosted by the British ambassador to Ireland (Robin Barnett). Previously, William and Kate’s office made a big deal about how this was “the first post-Brexit visit” by royals, but so far, it just seems like they’re badly mimicking the Duke and Duchess of Sussexes’ mini-tour of Ireland in 2018. Kate even tried to show human affection briefly and she put her hand on William’s arm as they posed for photos. He looked like he was completely ignoring her.
Of course they also stopped in to see Irish president Michael D. Higgins at their official residence in Dublin, Áras an Uachtaráin. While there, they also met the Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar and his partner. That was their first stop off the plane, which meant that all of the government officials saw Kate in her full green-on-green-on-green glory, all of it mismatched. I cannot get over the clashing greens, nor can I get over the giant bejeweled buttons (even on the cuff, look), nor can I get over this bonkers Alessandra Rich dress. It’s all just a mess! (Oh f–k I just saw that the Rich dress has BUTTONS too, omfg).
Photos courtesy of Backgrid and Getty.
Oh go away you two :)) stuck in traffic yesterday because of them and today again argghhhhh
Lol… The Egg and Kween of Keen!
I think Kate may have recently had bad work done on her eyes. Her face seems different beyond the usual botox freeze and fillers.
-Her eyes are definitely different. I think she got the haircut to distract. That or she’s pregnant again.
Nah she’s just tired from having to actually work.
Having to compete with Meg’s work ethic must be like to worst thing to happen to her.
When you’re as lazy as Kate and Will, a cookbook and a magazine issue is practically the same as digging ditches.
Looks different… and old! Stressed mainly.
Or maybe that was always how she looked and the press is being petty with the photo shopping.
There’s quite a big difference between how she looks in the arrival outfit and how her face looks in the Christmas outfit. How did her face change so drastically? Or are the pictures in the green dress taken by their favorite photog who photoshops her? Because she’s gone from having very obvious wrinkles and lines and bad makeup in the arrival outfit to looking much smoother, brighter, and with better makeup in the bar. Her skin goes from pale, ashen, saggy, and lined to tight and tan and glowing. What’s going on? Is it the difference in lighting? Is the Christmas dress sparkling like a Christmas tree and reflecting twinkle lights onto her face?
I think she has had a thread lift. I noticed three distinct lines from her left side of forehead (as you look at a picture) yesterday.
I think she’s just very sad.
I like the whole green on green on green outfit better than the sparkly one. Except for the giant headband. And it is better with the coat on.
William looks like a giant jerk. How much did HIS outfit cost?
I wonder what Rose Hanbury is doing this weekend.
Rose Who?
Oof, that one photo of Billiam looking directly into the camera.
Sir, no one told you to make eye contact with us 😳
*Guffaws* 😂😂😂
The problem is not that they aren’t charismatic, because they’re not. The problem is that they are so awkward in every way imaginable that they seem like robots mimicking human beings, badly.
It IS amazing that BOTH of them, whose job it is to make small talk, and put people at ease, are so horribly awkward at it! You can SEE it: in all the pics (save those of Egg at football games, and FFKeenQ with very small kids). No warmth, no charm, no *connection* at all. Feh!
Lol Good one @OH NO! Bill.I.am. Gotta capitalize that “I”
“Bill.One.Is.” He IS royal, after all.
Someone on the other thread said the leprechaun cosplay is patronizing and I agree. Ok, you’re in IRELAND – we get it. Can’t you pay respect to your hosts without dressing like grasshopper pie?
I agree, she looks very stupid. That outfit yesterday didn’t even match. If she comes to the US, will she wear a red white and blue cowboy outfit? Guarantee she’d wear some janky too-tight jeggings
OMG Yes Kate please come to U.S. in cowboy boots and ten gallon hat. I need this!
LOL
TOO MUCH! If she paired it with a winter white coat…MAYBE. But all the green… just overload.
The 2nd dress looks like Christmas wrapping paper. Again, TOO MUCH. When I see sequins/shiny like that it seems like it should be for a much dressier affair than a bar. Perhaps in another fabric the silhouette wouldn’t be *so* bad…and take off the elbow ruffle.
Ugh.. to spend SO much money and STILL look SO bad. She could have the best stylist in the world, top-tier fashion advisors (like Diana had that helped her out of her early 80s looks of big bows and huge collars). But no, GreenKeenKatie, FFQ, relies on an ex PA to “style” her. Ugh.
ETA: The cost of yesterday’s outfit, incl. the $22K earrings, could’ve funded her patronage, The Art Room, that had to close. Her ONE JOB (apart from “the heir and the spare(s)) is to call attention to her charities to help them raise awareness/funds. She can’t even do more than the barest minimum of one visit a year, or less. She has access to SO much jewelry, and has SO MANY green dresses and coats already. Did she REALLY need more (bespoke) items???
Kate in A Stars and Stripes ensemble is the tour we have been waiting for! That would be pretty awesome.
Kate actually does looks good in a cowboy hat. When they went to Canada for their honeymoon one of their stops was the Calgary Stampede, one of the most famous rodeos in the world. When they got off the plane they were greeted by dignitaries who honoured them with a gift of white cowboys hats, as they do to every dignitary that attends this huge rodeo. William and Kate refused to put the hats on and stood in front of the plane holding the hats awkwardly while pictures were taken. Maybe they didn’t get the memo? To their credit they did wear the hats when they attended the rodeo. Hands down, one of Kate’s best looks.
I gave my daughter a blanket from Target that had the tassels on the ends that look just like her dress and that is all I could think of when I saw this dress. Also, why is she just sticking to green, except for her pink number? They have more than green in Ireland Kate, or I guess she didn’t get that memo!!
Tom an Lorenzo wrote leprechaun and I loved it.
When W+K toured Canada a few years ago I remember she used to theme dress too (wore red, had maple leaves on her hat, etc) and I didn’t find it patronizing but she wasn’t quite as ‘extreme’ with it. I agree that she can – and should – find a way to honor Ireland without always resorting to green on green on green. Can’t her team help her with this?
It’s one thing to “honor” the visiting the host country wearing their colors in an outfit, a piece of jewelry, etc. But Green-Keen-Katie takes it to a whole ‘nother level in overkill. She doesn’t seem to understand the concept of “subtle”.
100% agree. It’s also insulting. There’s more to Ireland than the color green.
Someone said she look like a leprechaun, all I could see was The Keebler Elf, sans hat.
Her dress is atrocious.
The headband from earlier in the day is awful on her too, pulling her hair back like that does her no favors.
OMG when I saw that shined green dress for a bar visit? That dress is so awful after a day of green everything. Her arrival dress is also bad, but the shiny mess with the bells sleeves….no please just no. Her dress looks so cheap. The dress is a beautiful shade of green but such a cheep fabric. A bit of sparkle is great, but don’t look like you murdered a leprechaun with a disco ball.
Cheap fabric is very on-brand for The Vampire’s Wife; the textile on all their dresses looks kind of nasty.
Exactly! My gawd, if she came to the US, would she wear red, white, and blue outfits the entire time? There is something so shallow about her, especially as compared to Meghan, who was working with underprivileged women and trying to make a real difference. Suddenly the woman they used to sneeringly call “Waity Katie” is a Mother Theresa Barbie.
Yesterday (I’m ashamed to say) I looked at the Fail’s letters related to some forgettable Kate story, and—talk about blatant racism!—one of them said with obvious relief that at least Kate was “the right color.” The right color! Anyone who doubts that racism is what drove Meghan and Harry away, that racism was beneath the constant seemingly unrelated criticism of every damn thing Meghan said or did or wore, they’re willfully ignorant.
Sorry for my scree, but I’m so sick of Kate’s sudden elevation to sainthood. Let her say one memorable thing, just one, and then maybe I’ll rethink.
The theme she’s dressing for here is “St. Patrick’s Day at my daughter’s daycare.” The only thing missing are the shiny shamrocks bouncing from springs on her headband.
Lol!
Hahahaha I am guessing your daughter will look wayyyy cuter
Fashion fails for Kate here. The green theme is too much; the day dress is matronly and the evening dress looks like Christmas tinsel. Even meeting the Taoiesch’s dogs were straight out of the Sussexes’ playbook. Is anyone coming out for the Cambridges?
LOL! I was just thinking that someone decided to make a dress out of leftover green Christmas wrapping! She looks ridiculous. And clashes terribly with what Willie the Dick is wearing. HaHaHa
The president brings the dogs out to meet everyone, I don’t really think it’s something the Cambridges had much control over.
They’re the President Michael D Higgin’s dogs, not a fan of Kate and William but the dogs come out to meet everyone that comes to the Áras, they’re at every event and garden party held there.
Its the president dogs, and everyone who visit the Aras gets photographed with them. Second at least she never said Ireland was still part of the commonwealth so I think she get a pass on the green.
That metallic green dress is just a slight redesign of Beatrice’s dress. It was a mess when Beatrice wore it and it is almost as awful on Kate. When did Kate stop dressing like a modern, young woman and start dressing like a frump? All we get now are bad patterns, way too many buttons, endless ruffles or pleats, and long sleeves and high collars. How does one spend so much money and look so old-fashioned? To me she’s beginning to look like her choices are based on what the wife of a strict religious sect leader might wear. She needs to take about 30 years off her look.
@Aquarius64 Note that though the dress doesn’t have buttons, her giant earrings certainly look like them!
She added buttons to the Rich dress to match the buttons on her coat. I know its a running joke on here, but she seriously must adore buttons.
The second green dress wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t her second green dress of the day. Like the green arrival outfit – theme dressing, sure, but its Kate and its Ireland, so its expected. But then to change into another one! And the ruffles really are bad and the dress looks cheap, no clue how much it actually cost.
I also get that there are certain things the royals are going to do when they visit Ireland, so I don’t want to be all “they are just copying harry and Meghan” but there is one picture of will and kate walking with the president and his wife and its clearly meant to be a copy of the shot of Harry and Meghan walking with them – Kate and the PM’s wife are touching (arms linked maybe?) and we rarely see that from Kate with other people, so it definitely stands out.
It’s apparently a standard dress cut for them – the “festival” dress – and it runs about $800-1000 from the look of it. Not totally awful where they’re concerned, but still way too much for that dress to look so chintzy. It’s a beautiful color, but the metallic thread just does not do it any favors.
(The sad thing is they have several of the same dress in different variations of green – one of which was velvet and looked very pretty.)
The Vampire’s Wife is Nick Cave’s wife’s label.
He is gonna be even more depressed now.
This wins! bwwwahhhhahahahahaha!
Those dresses are very cool… when worn by cool people. Do with that was you will. 🙂
I think the metallic green dress would look great on the right person, and that person is not Kate.
It looked juvenile wearing all green in both outfits yesterday. While the second dress wasn’t as awful as the first one it didn’t need to be green.
The bespoke buttons that look like her engagement ring both on the coat and the dress are way too much as well. That dress was busy enough it didn’t need those buttons on it. And the buttons aren’t properly lined up on that coat. That is really poor workmanship.
Y does William look…50 years old in that sitting down picture. Wowza.
Thought the same thing. He looks older than Prince Edward.
His posture in the standing up photos is terrible too. All hunched over with shoulder rolled forward and neck craning forward. I want to stand behind and pull his shoulders back to force him to stand up. Both of the Cambridges have atrocious posture. It co tributes to them looking like they’re 50 years old. What will their posture be like when they’re 60, 70, 80+ years old if this is what it’s like now? *shudders*
Oh, that headband… Worth another look, but it’s still as bad as yesterday. She looks great in green (Keen notwithstanding), but these styles are hideous. Bully Bill just always looks like a prat.
1980’s Sloan Ranger
That’s what I came here to say. Please don’t bring those giant headbands back, please.
Those headbands really are enormous. They look headache inducing. Why isn’t someone styling her better?
That sparkly green dress is one of my FAVORITE colors. Not a huge fan of the sleeves, but that color is just soooo pretty.
I like the green coat a lot (I know she doesn’t need more of them) and I don’t even fully hate the buttons. I just wish they were … scaled down slightly, maybe? Or drop the ones at the sleeves for something smaller or more sleek.
Leo Varadkar brought out a green tie, like William did, so I’m not going to say a lot about theme dressing. They all do it to some degree at this point.
Oh man I didn’t even notice the buttons on the sleeves!!! She really cant help herself can she? You know that coco chanel saying….before you leave the house look at yourself in the mirror and remove one accessory? I feel like with Kate, she looks at herself in the mirror and then always has to add more buttons.
I thought of that quote yesterday in regards to her, funny enough.
I just want to shake her and be like “JUST CHOOSE BETTER BUTTONS”. Have buttons on everything if you must- but at least make them make sense and not skew the styling so much lol.
These looks are so bad.
I don´t hate this evening dress. I actually like it, and it looks good on her frame. Green is a good color on her.
She looks so dated. A French woman needs to kidnap her and give her a Parisian make-under.
@Aurora …and teach Kate that ‘highlight’ is not the same as ‘annihilate’, especially when it comes to eyeliner
A make under would do wonders! The concept that if you own 10 green things you do not need to wear them all at once.
Another hideous matronly dress. Earlier commentator said it looked like christmas tinsel and I agree. Such a pretty color wasted on a bad dress.
“Another hideous matronly dress.”
@S808 – Kate dresses to please the commentariat of The Daily Fail.
Well I hope they’re pleased so maybe it’ll count for something.
Why would anyone dress to please mostly BOTS! 😂
I have no idea why but Katie Keen does it!
I don’t really get the matronly thing. I see that come up a lot, and some outfits – I get it. But this isn’t something I’d consider matronly? But people then go on about how youthful and appropriate the other royal families dress… and I find a LOT of the looks leaning pretty matronly lol. I think a lot of times it’s not so much that one of them is dressing too matronly, and more about personal preference. I’m 29, and I’d wear that sparkling green dress. It’s not something I could really see someone my mothers age wearing.
Well I’m almost 60 and I wouldn’t wear either of those things. I haven’t seen that much sparkly metallic fabric since the eighties and I hope it’s not making a comeback outside of Kate. As for the floral number? Why Kate, why? And that headband reminds me of something Haley Mills wore in those convent movies she made in the sixties.
I think her looks are often matronly due to her style, not to a specific dress. This green dress, ruffles aside, could look good if styled appropriately. Kate styles it in such a way that she looks like she’s from the 70s or 80s, and not in a good way.
FWIW Zawe Ashton wore the same dress–or an extremely similar style also from the Vampire’s Wife–in a pink or very light purple for an event when she was starring in Betrayal. It looked better on Zawe and very much fit in with her style (oversize, sometimes with a bit of sparkle), I think part of the problem with this dress looking so dated on Kate is that she’s wearing it as a very fitted dress, when I believe it meant to be oversized, which gives it a more modern look.
I think it comes off as matronly because it’s massively dated. So the only people who would have these 80s looks in their closet would be someone who was 30 in the 80s, and thus 70 years old now.
I guess it does come down to personal taste. I’m 44 and I think that dress is hideous AND matronly! lol, no offense.
Vampire’s Wife is a brand by the wife of Nick Cave. She started it as way to cope with the death of their teenage son. It is indeed quite popular among celebrities and while it is not my taste, it has it’s own quirky noir vibe. Check out her instagram.
To bad the noir vibe is totally lost on Keen Katie, what with the headband and all. She’s probably never heard of Nick Cave. Ha!
I did read an adoring review of her dress in the Daily Telegraph today saying how Kate’s choice of designer shows her “growing confidence” in fashion. No reason why it should take her so long as to grow in confidence with her style, public speaking or anything required of her, but the UK press continues to nanny her and hand out brownie points for every baby step she takes.
I like the brand but as usual Kate makes it look boring and a bit cheap looking. The dress is very glam on its own and even more so when you see it on celebs – she dulls the sparkle. Mean but true.
Who cares about the royals? Bród was the star of the show once again.
In one photo I thought they had a bear in the garden! That is an incredible animal!
Hmmm, another new ugly frock. Will the “taxpayers” be upset about the cost. Inquiring minds want to know.🤔
The media will spin it as one of her “kweening” dresses. It’s for the good of the people I guess.
Not a fan of Kates dresses so far. She has done much better. It looks like they are phoning it in. Has Willy had some hair work done? It looks like he has a bit more. It doesn’t help his personality.
That dress was awful and that ridiculous coconut bra didn’t help either, it looked cheap although it wasn’t. And the green was too much. Serious question, what was the purpose of this trip except drinking Guinness?
Avoiding Harry & Meghan.
🤣🤣🤣🤣,
LOLOLOLOL. Good thing I swallowed my coffee before reading your comment!! TOO on point!
👏👏👏😀 yep!
I saw this on Instagram last night and I was howling with laughter over this dress. It is SO bad. This might possibly be the worst look she has ever, ever worn. It immediately reminded me of Bea’s shiny green monstrosity, which I consider to be one of the worst royal looks of all time, and this dress looks even worse than that one. What is this woman thinking?? She’s a walking Andes Mint wrapper!!
LOL! So mint tea for breakfast then.
That green dress Bea wore was also by The Vampire’s Wife.
I have no idea why these dresses are popular, they look so matronly to me, but all celebrities seem to love them.
I just looked up their website – those dresses are terrible. It’s like if someone told Anne Rice to go pick out her favorite dress by Gunnie Sax to wear to Homecoming. Awful.
I misread the headline. I thought Kate WAS the Vampire’s Wife. That’s what happens before you have morning coffee.
All I can say is that Kate is now cosplaying Beatrice with this horrible fashion.
OMG, me too. 😂
This woman is so baffling to me, I don’t understand. She has access to the very best, the best clothes, designers, fabrics, stylists, everything. She has a great figure, not unlike models, she’s tall and thin, with small breasts and little hip definition… And that’s how she choose to dress???!!!
I honestly think that for the past several months Kate has been dressing to try to cover for her eating disorder and subsequent frail frame. Bulky fabrics, long flowy sleeves, looser cuts with longer skirts, and shinies to distract the eye. Even this shiny fabric is another attempt because shiny fabric generally makes one appear bigger.
Ugh! So much bright, shiny, green on green on green! And this dress is almost an exact identical to the one that one of the York sisters wore! So besides the obvious M & H cosplay, we also have Kate copying her cousin in-law!
Sadly for these 2, a local reporter mentioned how half of the media will be leaving Ireland today to go back to the U.K to cover Harry and Meghan’s engagement. I know a reporter recently mentioned that Will was worried about H&M stealing his spotlight!
Well I guess the glare from Kate’s sparkly green dress is all the spotlight he’ll get on this trip!
😂😂😂😂😂🤣
Obviously her assistants googled “what are the colors of the Irish flag?”. Yesterday, a green coat. Today, the Fail has a pic of her in a white coat. Which means tomorrow we should all expect an orange coat.
Considering what the color orange represents in the flag and particularly in NI, I seriously doubt she would wear orange.
But boy, would I be down for the drama if she did.
Where were all these high fashion minded commenters when Meghan wore 4 shades of mismatched brown to her last royal appearance? Since we’re all here making a hue & cry about matchy-matchiness; just a reminder that that wasn’t a good look either.
Actually that was an amazing look. You can do monochrome without looking like you’re wearing a costume.
Well, I guess fashion is subjective because I didn’t care much for it and I don’t care much for Kate’s look either. But both women have the right and the resources to wear whatever they fancy and what they personally think they look amazing in.
Whataboutmegan!!!
Chill, lady. Kate’s not going to melt because people made fun of her for wearing some ugly outfits.
Many negative comments were made about Meghan’s shiny brown skirt.
I know this for a fact because I made several of them.
Exactly. I was not a fan of the recent browns either. You can dislike both.
I *did* like Meg’s all green and red outfits (leather skirts, one with the green shirt/rolled sleeves, and the other with the V-neck sweater). Both looked young, smart, and very chic.
Kate usually does casual very well; in one or two occasions she’s hit it out of the park with a formal dress (the white, one shoulder BAFTA comes to mind, and the teal Jenny Packham). But Kate’s *good* looks are few and far between.
I really like the pink Jenny Packham gown (which is also known as the “Rose Who?” dress) that she re-wore to the EACH event at Houghton Hall.
@Gogo Girl, there were definitely those that didn’t like all the brown she wore for that appearance. If you cared to check the articles written then, you would see that it was pointed out that the outfit had too much brown.
Lmao please do not compare a simple camel coat with a brown satin skirt and brown turtleneck to this buttony paisley ruffly headbandy mess.
Tinsel….
Does he have more hair in the middle of his head – or did he just stop shaving it off? Wasn’t it completely clean up there for a while? And weren’t there recent stories about HARRY having hair “work” done? Hmmmm.
Kate is not fashionsta and she never pretend to be.
So why does she need 8000 of the same coats and dresses that she never wears?
She claimed to be a fashion buyer at jigsaw as her pretend job so that’s patently false.
I believe it was accessories buyer… quite funny when you realize this woman can’t properly accessorize her own outfits to save her life (other than to be matchy-matchy) 😂
Spends a whole lot of money on near-identical outfits for somebody we’re supposed to believe doesn’t care about fashion.
I’m pretty sure every famous woman on the planet has worn an iteration of that Vampires wife dress at some point in the last few years.
I think there are kind of standard things all royals do when they are there and those are the presidents dogs, so I dont actually see any copying here.
Omfg that green. Green is my favorite color. Currently my hair is a dark shade of green, most my purses are green, I own lots of dark green clothes… this might have ruined it for me. JC, those buttons! Make it stop girl. Why did no one veto this. I just noticed the headband, I’ll see myself out.
The Vampires Wife dress actually isnt bad! I think it’s kind of nice. The other outfit on the other hand… girl bye.
Anybody else notice that there are ZERO crowd photos from the last two days? Just bad green dresses? Either they are keeping people away for security or…nobody’s showing up.
HORRIBLE DRESSES
Green is my favorite color. That dress is hideous. Her coat and dress ensemble earlier in the day were pretty though. I just wish she weren’t so prosaic and literal in her color choices.
You guys make me question my taste, I actually like the dress and the way she styled it.
I didn’t like the first one she wore, either with the coat or on its own. Someone please tell me why so many people like that type of headband, they don’t look good at all. In that last picture William looks as if he was thinking “WTF are you wearing!”
@Sof, I like the green dress too. I would wear this green dress to a formal event such as a high end charity party.
I think the problem is the dress is not appropriate for the event. To me Kate looks like she popped into an early evening or late afternoon reception dressed to attend a formal dinner later in the evening and then hit the clubs.
Normal Bill’s suit is too casual for Keen’s dress or Keen’s dress is too formal for Normal Bill’s suit. Take your choice
I think that dress would look striking on Camilla.
Yes 70 year old Camilla is much better suited for that dress than 38 year old Kate. In fact Camilla probably has something like that leftover from the eighties hanging in her closet. She’s probably wondering if she can fit in it. Oh well, she can pass it on to Kate.
MsIam, now I have Camilla’s yellow drop waist, ruffled sleeve, tiered ruffle evening gown stuck in my head. Looked like something she borrowed out of Queen Sonja’s closet. Not a great dress but it did suit her.
Easy on all that green woman, just because you are visiting Ireland does not require this awful fashion.
The green coat is nice. Those dresses are not good. The top pic looks like green Xmas tinsel pressed into a dress, the cheap ruffle on the bottom only makes it uglier.
This dress is hideous too! What is going on? It reminded me of Eugenie’s dress also. Sparkles are only for New Year Eve or work xmas parties.
This really is a copycat tour. I recall a lot of whining about Meghan crouching to speak with Sinead Burke in 2018, and yet Kate did the exact same thing last night. Crickets from the “disrespectful!!!” crowd of course 😒
But anyway, I find it disturbing how Kate continues to SWF Meghan whenever there’s an opportunity to do so. It seems SWFing Diana wasn’t enough. She’s clearly too lazy and too dull to make her own unique mark, but she should own it before copying people more interesting than her.
I don’t remember meghan being criticised for bending down to talk to Sinéad, @beachdreams, and I hope that she wasn’t. That’s the correct way to speak to a little person, it’s respectful and polite and Meghan (and Kate) was perfectly right to do so
Meghan was raked over the coals by Kate stans everywhere for that. Not a peep out of them now, no surprise.
Her stylist must hate her…
I wish she would get one, no one would purposely dress someone like that
My hubby and I are visiting Ireland this June and it never occurred to me to purposely wear green. What Kate did yesterday was over the top. The amount of green on green on green makes it a costume, not an outfit. Glad she’s in black & white today. My eyes need a rest. I wonder what all the Irish dignitaries and politicians thought. Probably silently sighing or rolling their eyes. I’m surprised she didn’t get special “shamrock buttons” to complete the look! LOL
She’s probably saving the shamrock buttons for St. Patrick’s Day.
Oh, if she *does* give out the Shamrocks this year to the Irish Guards (“WE DON’T WANT TO RAISE EXPECTATIONS…!!” remember that??) she will have ANOTHER bespoke green coat/dress. Mark my words.
Why does she need another green sparkly dress? What was wrong with the one she wore in Pakistan? Couldn’t she have brought that out of the closet?
Fashion aside, Kate just doesn’t seem engaged or engaging at all. Its almost as if she is just physically present and that’s about it.
Imho, these earrings were too much with this dress. The sparkly/shiney material of the dress were competing too hard with these huge, shiney earrings, it would have been better with a smaller, more muted earring.
No it wouldn’t have been “better” it just would have been less hideous, lol! “Better” would mean leaving this one in the store.
Lol!! True!
How the hell can she look so bad?
Does she not look at herself in a mirror?
Just hideous
I don’t know what’s worse, these green dresses here or that green culottes outfit from the other day. Either way, these last few outfits Kate’s worn are among her worst. And she should get her money back for that shiny green one.
ETA: I just noticed that the sparkly green thing has puffed sleeves too! Ok, this is truly a crime against fashion.
ALL of the culottes she’s worn have not been her friend! She *never* pairs them with the right tops or shoes; it just ends up looking like she’s wearing floods or outgrew her pants.
@(TheOG) jan9006 – Thanks for bringing this point up on the culottes. Unless one is on the beach or at a polo match, culottes must be worn with killer shoes. The whole point of a cropped pant leg is to show off killer shoes.
omg I wonder if she bought that culottes outfit for this tour and then something changed and she wasn’t going to have the opportunity to wear it. It would explain why she went so full-in with the green.
I don’t think she was going for PDA…watching the video on instagram, I think that he was just going to walk right inside after meeting whoever greeted them, and she stopped him to take some pics.
I actually quite like the sparkly dress – the sleeves are not my taste, but it’s a cute cocktail dress (but does remind me of the red one she wore to the BP reception in January)
STOP….Hold on..the gold purse. What is going on with Kate? She never had a good sense about fashions but what is really going on here?
Oh Gawd, the Manic Grin is back again. And the pie-frill hem on her This Is What Evil Looks like ‘dress’… Help. She’s cosplaying Diana ca 1980-6: pie frills, ruffles, pussy cat bows, dressing in maternity gear whether you’re pregnant or not, and all at MORE expense to the taxpayer.
I find this vaguely insulting to Ireland, too (and no, it’s not only because I’m a quarter Irish): infantilising them because she thinks that wearing all green is what they’ll be flattered by, that that’s what they want to see. How about dressing like a grownup (from her already vast wardrobe) and taking Ireland seriously? What with this, their desultory ‘let’s go to the Guinness brewery because Ireland’ and ‘isn’t coronavirus funny’ from Penis With Teeth, my ick radar has been pinging. Guess it would be too much to expect an art history grad to visit the stunning collections in the National Gallery…
You forgot to mention that Cain’s blue suit is really ugly. IMHO, Cain’s suit is something one would wear to a formal garden party when a coat and tie is required. Cain’s suit is definitely a Summer Suit.
The manic grin with the open mouth. No, no, dear! That just screams “Upper Class Twit”.
Fun seeing my Christmas tree skirt fashioned into a dress for Kate ! :snort laugh, ho ho ho:
I honestly didn’t think it could get any uglier than Bea’s green dress, yet, here we are.
Why, why, why can’t she get a better stylist? She has a frame like Queen Letizia and look how great QL looks!
She looks like an expensive Christmas ornament…..
omg the buttons on her dress give her googly-eye boobs 😀
one nice thing: her hair is fab
The green sparkly dress, wow, I think that’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen her in.
Now for my dissenting opinion. In stills and on Instagram they look way calmer and more relaxed than in January. Back then they looked terribly stressed. Perhaps making a decision, turning a corner is it’s own kind of relief. Not that *they* made a decision but being surrounded by all that upheaval and indecision can be awful. Maybe things really are settling down. Perhaps the commonwealth ceremony won’t be as bad as we fear for tension and dirty looks!!
For Kate theme dressing = leaning in. Sheryl Sandberg: “Honey, we need to talk….”
Yeah, I think she’s had work done. Eyes look different, teeth had new veneers (or something else done to her mouth), face is stretched. She’s not even 40 yet, but she looks like a Real Housewife who’s pushing 50 and can’t accept it. She would look better if she just aged naturally (and stopped starving).
i have a theory about this: the time off last week was for some serious polishing in advance of the Harry/Megs showdown. why else would she suddenly get a brand new haircut after being dragged for those sausage curls for a decade? same for the extra work on the face. although at this point i don’t think we ever see an unphotoshopped image of the Katie
Remember how we got like three weeks worth of saccharine articles about how “amazingly awesome and newly confident Kate has finally grown into her role and is just winning so hard at life, as evidenced by her brand new, sophisticated and classy, yet somehow also trendy and sexy new look” all because she got some highlights? Is she trying to recreate that buzz and those fawning articles throughout Harry and Meghan’s visit by getting a haircut? I bet she is. Doing something new with her hair is a way to guarantee the most over the top flattering press without Kate actually having to do anything.
I’m sure we’ll get articles quoting “hair experts” who will contrast Kate’s “sleek, modern, and super on trend, yet also timeless haircut that highlights her natural beauty, heralds her new position as the most important female member of the BRF since Megxit, and makes everyone think QUEEN!!!” vs. Meghan’s “dated and messy long hair that she refuses to cut, despite the impassioned pleas of her friends and family who worry that she’s overly attached to the long hair that looked so nice on her ten years ago but now just makes her look like a sad and pitiful middle age woman who can’t let go and who treats her hair as a security blanket to hide behind when she’s in the presence of the beautiful and radiant future queen Kate. And also Meghan is just so vain and image obsessed and thinks that her long hair makes her look like the Instagram influencers she’s trying to channel in her new, money and celebrity obsessed life. And also, doesn’t her hair just looks a little ratty and unkempt?” Full of racist dog whistles, just like the British media likes.
That second green dress is positively hideous! It looks like something your kooky grandmother or aunt wore in the 1970’s.
Yikes. Kate looks great in jewel tones but this dress is awful. She needs a real stylist.
What’s worse is that she probably has a stylist. That’s the scary part.
If she does, she needs to fire said stylist and find a new one.
@LAUREN she has definitely had something done! Her forehead alone seems so firm and skin is different! I also agree about the haircut being to cover up the work done.
I pity these two because they are so out of touch with reality they dont even realise how much people are no longer fooled by their status nor care about hierarchy. The return of the Sussexs will be a sobering reminder of how leaving the RF has no affect nor does it make people less popular
She really has no dress sense. I don’t either, but I would have the sense to work with someone and research fashion precedents…you know, like Princess Diana, or Audrey Hepburn, or Grace Kelly, or Lauren Bacall.
She’s really giving me that over-stretched chord vibe lately.
Oh well, they got what they wanted. No ‘competition’.
As an Irish American…this annoys me even more.
I hope that the coverage will be enough so that the pack will stay to the end of the tour. Of note the first outfit which included the coat is five times the entire wardrobe that the Duchess of Sussex wore for the length of their stay in Africa.
Listen..
Rage over overspending..
Crickets…
Price only matters when a beautiful woman like the Duchess of Sussex dresses the part.
Wait for the chorus of whinge(s) on March 5, 2020.
Speaking of coverage, this had Becky English in a snit:
https://twitter.com/RE_DailyMail/status/1235147912734269440
It doesn’t work with her matronly down-do sausage curl hair. If she’d put it up in a loose up-do and maybe matched it with some ankle-strappy heels or even boots it would have completed the look, but as such it just looks totally out of place with the rest of her accessorizing/hair.
That shiny green on that dress was the colour of my prom dress!
Very different style. I had sausage curls too with ringlets framing my face. Lol.
But I was 17! And didn’t have oodles of money and access to the best clothes in the world.
Heaps of celebs have been wearing the Vampire’s Wife lately. I think Suzie Cave’s clothes are beautiful yes they are covered up and frilly. Its definitely got a Victoriana vibe but I love that.
I’m not a fan of the green but the dress itself is super flattering on Kate.
The fug dress and shoes make for a frumpy look. Add the big hair and earrings and it’s too too much. Maybe that dress would look better on someone who has pizzazz. But Kate has absolutely none.
The leprechaun dress is awful but fits in with her overall style. I am more surprised by how haggard she looks. She’s not even 40. How is that possible?
Wow gorgeous dress, I’m going to guestimate maybe $6000 including alterations, shoes and bag $2000, jewlery $6000, hair and botox $6000. $20000 for one night!! Let’s see what we can do with 20000, depending on where you live put a downpayment on a house for a poor family to help set them up for life, or maybe an all inclusive vacation for 4 family’s with sick children to make memories that will last forever, or we can spenc it on ONE night for Kate because watching her fills our childrens stomach up with food and keeps them warm. Keep those taxes coming.