Not one but TWO emotional-support polls this week! The first was this week’s YouGov emotional-support poll on which royals are the most popular. Bizarrely, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s names are still being polled on, despite the fact that they’ve lived in California since 2020. Unsurprisingly, Prince William barely edged out his wife as the most popular royal! No one believes those numbers, but sure! Well, Princess Kate was furious, so Tatler gave her something special: she was named Britain’s best-dressed for 2026. The first best-dressed woman to send a dozen British labels into bankruptcy with her reverse Midas Touch!
The Princess of Wales has claimed the top place as one of Britain’s best dressed for 2026. The 44-year-old was named on the list compiled by fashion and lifestyle magazine Tatler, alongside the brother of popstar Dua Lipa and Bridgerton star Hannah Dodd.
Kate, who previously topped Tatler’s list in 2022, was praised by the magazine for her return to the spotlight after taking a break from royal duties in 2024 due to a cancer diagnosis and treatment.
The publication noted that Kate is “back to health – and back to being a Brit-fashion heroine”, hailing her as “Britain’s chicest figure” whose fashion choices “light up royal occasions”.
The princess is often praised for her elegant and brightly coloured ensembles, having turned heads at Royal Ascot this year when she wore a bold yellow outfit paired with a matching hat.
I’m including some fashion pics of Kate this year. I’ll say something mildly nice – I appreciate that someone (I guess William) adjusted her clothing allowance last year, because she’s been wearing new dresses, new coatdresses and new Meghan/Diana cosplay pretty consistently. I still shudder when I think about the two-year-period of time when Kate was wandering around in the same trousers, blazer or Self Portrait ensemble multiple times in a matter of weeks. And all of that was when Natasha Archer was her stylist too. Kate’s post-Archer style has been… okayish. Better than I thought it would be after her right-hand gal suddenly left her. Kate’s post-Archer style has also shown the world that Kate doesn’t need Natasha Archer to keep up with her Meghan moodboard. Kate is clearly keeping track of Meghan’s looks all by herself (and Archer is clearly maintaining her own separate Meghan moodboard).
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- WINDSOR, ENGLAND – JUNE 15: Catherine, Princess of Wales smiles as Prince William, Prince of Wales walks past during the 2026 Order Of The Garter Service at Windsor Castle on June 15, 2026 in Windsor, England. The Order of the Garter, Britain’s oldest chivalric order established by Edward III, includes The King, Queen, Royal Family members, and up to 24 companions honoured for their public service. Companions of the Garter are chosen personally by the Sovereign to honour those who have held public office, who have contributed in a particular way to national life or who have served the Sovereign personally.,Image: 1110378568, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no , Credit line: Chris Jackson/Avalon
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- The Princess of Wales arrives for the Enthronement Ceremony installing Dame Sarah Mullally as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, at Canterbury Cathedral in Kent. Picture date: Wednesday March 25, 2026.,Image: 1086176840, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jordan Pettitt/Avalon
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- 13/05/2026. Reggio Emilia, Italy. The Princess of Wales was welcomed to the city at Reggio Emilia’s Town Hall. The Princess was formally met by Mayor Marco Massari before proceeding inside to his office for an official meeting with the city’s civic leaders. Her Royal Highness then moved into the Piazza Camillo Prampolini, where she greeted members of the local community.,Image: 1098589868, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image is free for use but may only be used for news or editorial reporting purposes. This image must NOT be used for any commercial or other use, save for news or editorial reporting and cannot be altered or amended in any manner or form whatsoever. All rights reserved., Model Release: no , Credit line: Pete Maclaine/Avalon
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- 14/05/2026. Reggio Emilia, Italy. The Princess of Wales during a visit to the Salvador Allende pre‑school to observe how nature‑based learning is embedded within the Reggio Emilia Approach. Her Royal Highness spent time with children learning outdoors and met the educators whose commitment to nature shapes the design and ethos of the school. The Princess then joined a class of children for their outdoor morning assembly. Her Royal Highness also met an atelierista, who guided her around the grounds. The Princess then meet parents who volunteer at the school, to understand the strong community involvement that supports the pre-school.,Image: 1098940444, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image may only be used for news or editorial reporting purposes. This image must NOT be used for any commercial or other use, save for news or editorial reporting and cannot be altered or amended in any manner or form whatsoever., Model Release: no , Credit line: Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace/Avalon
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- WINDSOR, ENGLAND – JUNE 15: Catherine, Princess of Wales attends the 2026 Order Of The Garter Service at Windsor Castle on June 15, 2026 in Windsor, England. The Order of the Garter, Britain’s oldest chivalric order established by Edward III, includes The King, Queen, Royal Family members, and up to 24 companions honoured for their public service. Companions of the Garter are chosen personally by the Sovereign to honour those who have held public office, who have contributed in a particular way to national life or who have served the Sovereign personally.,Image: 1110378504, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no , Credit line: Chris Jackson/Avalon
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- 17/06/2026, Ascot, UK. The Prince and Princess of Wales present the trophy to the winners of the Prince of Wales Stakes on Day Two of Royal Ascot.,Image: 1110823844, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image is free for use but may only be used for news or editorial reporting purposes. This image must NOT be used for any commercial or other use, save for news or editorial reporting and cannot be altered or amended in any manner or form whatsoever. All rights reserved., Model Release: no , Credit line: Andrew Parsons/Kensington Palace/Avalon
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- Britain’s Kate, The Princess of Wales, speaks to members of the staff as she visits Evelina London Children’s Hospital in London, Monday, July 6, 2026.,Image: 1114829496, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WPA POOL PHOTO, *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no , Credit line: Alastair Grant/Avalon
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- 11/07/2026. Wimbledon, UK. The Princess of Wales, Patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, during the Ladies’ Singles Final of The Championships, Wimbledon.,Image: 1115962944, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image may only be used for news or editorial reporting purposes. This image must NOT be used for any commercial or other use, save for news or editorial reporting and cannot be altered or amended in any manner or form whatsoever., Model Release: no , Credit line: Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace/Avalon
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- 12/07/2026. Wimbledon, UK. The Princess of Wales, Patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, at the Gentlemen’s Singles Final of The Championships, Wimbledon.,Image: 1116211165, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image may only be used for news or editorial reporting purposes. This image must NOT be used for any commercial or other use, save for news or editorial reporting and cannot be altered or amended in any manner or form whatsoever., Model Release: no , Credit line: Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace/Avalon
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- Royal wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling at All Saints’ Church in Kemble, England Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Kemble, United Kingdom When: 06 Jun 2026 Credit: Cover Images
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- Royals attend day two of Royal Ascot 2026 at Ascot Racecourse Featuring: Catherine, Princess Of Wales Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2026 Credit: Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR HELLO MAGAZINE**
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- Royals attend day two of Royal Ascot 2026 at Ascot Racecourse Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2026 Credit: Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR HELLO MAGAZINE**
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- The Princess of Wales during a visit on day four of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London. Featuring: Catherine, Princess Of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 02 Jul 2026 Credit: Andrew Matthews/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales watches as the Prince of Wales takes part in the DMMI Royal Charity Polo Cup 2026 at Guards Polo Club in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire. The funds raised by the match will be distributed across ten charities and causes supported by the Prince and Princess of Wales, helping them to carry out the vital work that they do. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Windsor, United Kingdom When: 10 Jul 2026 Credit: Yui Mok/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales attends a polo match with the Prince of Wales as he takes part in the DMMI Royal Charity Polo Cup 2026 at Guards Polo Club in Windsor Great Park. The funds raised by the match will be distributed across ten charities and causes supported by the Prince and Princess of Wales, helping them to carry out the vital work that they do. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales, Prince William Where: Windsor, United Kingdom When: 10 Jul 2026 Credit: Yui Mok/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
I’ll give Kate credit: she has always dressed well. I don’t say that lightly. I do think she has taste and a certain style. But there’s nothing about it that really makes you go, WOW. There’s nothing — to take the most salient contrast — like Carolyn Bessette, who was a true original. Kate’s style is very safe. Home Counties, Bicester Village, safe. Which is why I always found it funny that she had a “stylist.” You don’t need a stylist to dress like Kate. You just need a credit card. If all it takes is money, it isn’t really fashion, in the cultivated sense; it’s just consumerism. That’s what Kate represents.
Yes, I was about to post the same thing. Anyone can be well-dressed, given enough money and an age-old template.
The best dressed for 2026?? Umm…don’t we still have 5 months of 2026 to go?? Really?
Forgive me, but I have no idea how anyone can find anything good about the way Kate dresses—let alone speak of taste or style.
Kate, like all the Middletons, has ALWAYS dressed terribly. They are tacky and kitschy. Always ill-fitting outfits, awful accessories, and even worse makeup. Kate was always intent on showing off her butt and boobs—and, in jeans bare belly all the way down to the crotch.
In terms of fashion, she fared somewhat better when she copied the Queen or Diana—though in the case of Diana, it took on unhealthy proportions.
Before Meghan came along, she wore the same black mid-height heels and clutches almost constantly; while sitting next to the Queen, she’d expose her crotch and white panties, and later she went all out and started leaving her underwear at home.
Meghan’s arrival shook up the entire Royal Family—and not just in terms of fashion; Kate and her mother became obsessed, and Kate didn’t just copy Meghan—she mimicked her look from head to toe.
But even the best copied outfit can be completely ruined by terrible, garish accessories.
On top of that, she doesn’t know how to carry her clothes; her posture doesn’t help matters either—her head is always jutting out ahead of her torso. She needed a stylist for menial tasks and to keep tabs on Meghan, not for actual fashion advice. She has Carole for that, which unfortunately shows. And calling Carolyn Bessette original is wide of the mark, too. Carolyn was the embodiment of classic style. I can’t recall a SINGLE “quirky” outfit of hers. She always wore very simple, classic, elegant pieces; the fact that she looked amazing in them was down to her posture, her figure, her looks, and her ability to carry the clothes well and the selection of clothing.
I’m with you, @Kasztanka, Kate is never well dressed. She’s just dressed and has an unlimited budget. Some of her stuff is expensive, some of it’s cheap, and she looks the same in everything–out of step, out of touch, mismatched (she knows squat about color & tones & patterns).
I think she wears expensive clothes, but she really has zero taste. having taste would mean wearing appropriate jewelry for daytime vs evening, wearing better hats for different occasions, having clothes tailored properly, etc. That’s all part of having taste/style and she does not have that.
If you mean that she spends a lot of money on clothes, sure. But she is not well-dressed. She does not understand color, style, fit, proportions or accessories. She looks both like an old lady and a toddler with her dated, fussy “style.” And her hair is an abomination and her make-up is ok sometimes and garish at others. Spending money is the only thing I see here.
For her it’s other people’s money that she really doesn’t work for and the taste and style isn’t even her own. I’m just laughing because we all know that they didn’t genuinely come to this decision. Tatler is Kate’s (the Middleton’s) tabloid to big up Kate for being mediocre and white, but more so white. They know as much as the rest of us with eyes that Kate doesn’t have style, fashion, taste or class but she is white and they can’t allow anyone else who would deserve the real honor to not be white. It’s almost August yet they’ve determined that a woman who copies every woman who is normally on the YEARS END list of best dressed is prematurely now given their top honor because they know that when 2026 is finally over no real style magazine will list her without people laughing and pointing out the absurdity of a woman who shuts down fashion, in the wrong way, is anywhere near such a list.
I find her style of dressing very bland and meh. Even when she is copying Meghan or Diana.
I especially notice it when she piles on the big jewels.
the thing about Meghan and Diana is that they were always wearing the clothes/shoes/accessories, not the other way around. and that’s Kate’s problem.
Well, first of all what is best dressed? Kate wins for dressing clean, trad and boring 100%. But she is no fashion icon. The only fashion item worth remembering from her is her wedding dress and nothing else. She has no shoe game, no handbag game, she does have a retro dress game that no one ever wears and nobody ever tries to copy, BUT SHE HAS THAT BOY CAP.
I ALWAYS want to wear what Meghan wears – even though I don’t have the budget or panache to carry her outfits off. Not once have I ever looked at something Kate has worn and said “I want that”.
THIS!!!
100%.
Form her one woman campaign to bring back the coatdress, there is nothing fashion forward about her. Safe and boring all the way. No imagination, no fun whatsoever.
LOL. The emperor really has no clothes on.
Best dressed compared to what?
Camilla?
Honestly, I think Camilla dresses better than Kate. She has good hats, matches her jewelry to the occasion, chooses colours that suit her and her clothing suits her better. Her clothes never fit well but she does a better job overall because she’s not trying to be someone else.
Add that to the list of things I thought I’d never say.
lol
I’m getting the impression that Tatler is mocking Kate. There is zero chance that Kate would be considered the ‘best dressed woman of 2026’ in the UK or anywhere else. Guessing Kate’s competition was Camilla, Sophie and Helena Bonham Carter(though HBC does have an at least interesting style of dress).
Yeah, “lol” is really all I’ve got for this one.
If they say so.
The funny thing to me with this and yesterday’s poll, is that I’m at an age where this sort of thing would embarrass me, not please me. That people felt that my feelings needed this sort of handling, if someone else was getting attention. To be so emotionally stunted that not only do you still need this, but for it to still be effective?
Nope. Not buying it.
But I do wonder what the BRF spent so that *they* might buy this honour.
Well, she certainly wears a lot of clothes- maybe that makes you “best-dressed”. But I don’t think she is stylish.
Her day wear is a disaster. Tatler must be having a sly laugh. Her gowns are nice though.
Um, we’re not supposed to focus on what Kate wears, Tatler. Focus on her charitable contributions and initiatives.
Sure, and what are those again?
@LameJudi, lmao
I wonder how much they paid for this nest dressed honors?
Maybe they are hoping for titles.
About a week ago the Times (UK) published an interview with former fashion designer Tabitha Webb (me neither) who said this about what happened after Kate wore some of her pieces:
“Seeing that, I turned to my husband and said, ‘I think I might finally make money’. There’s no greater endorsement than Kate wearing your clothes. It’s easy to think it’ll be the making of you. But it’s not. Customers buy what she wore but they don’t return for more.”
The business folded.
WOW. Unlike Meghan, Katie Keen is the fashion kiss of death.
I disagree. The pictures of her at those banquets, one with the tilted tiara, the unflattering gown the long Disney Princess wig, was so unflattering. The one she wore when Trump was flattering her.And that green gown she wore at another banquet. She needs to get a good hair trim also.
There was a pic posted here, a few weeks ago, where Kitty was turning her head in the shot, and it captured the image of what looked like a hair cut, to jaw length. For a nano-second, I thought she *had* finally* chopped it off! And it looked great… on that side of the pic. Then I saw the tangled mess on the other side. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. A bob would look VERY good on her; heck, even a lob would be a great improvement! A bit of a more side part to soften the length of her face… It would take years off her!
But we all know: “William likes my hair long”, and mousy, no personality, trad-wife, with no opinions or will of her own, will do as she’s told. She’s going to hang onto that *just*out*of*reach* crown for dear life at this point.
We can’t blame Kate’s hair on William (or Charles, as it’s been floated in the press) . Kate herself said she didn’t like the shoulder length hair she sported when Charlotte was a toddler because she thought it made her look “mumsy,” that wonderful British phrase.
But it’s not about how she really looks with all the fake hair, I think it’s how it makes her feel in her fantasy world, just like all the perfect family videos…. She likes it that way, the end
Harriet Phillips is better dressed than Keen but they dare not give Harriet the honors.
I agree with this. Harriet has a fraction of the resources and she stepped out looking fashionable for aristos.
Kate gets praised for existing.
Too funny that Twatler chose to ignore Kate being the kiss of death for so many brands.
But to call her Britain’s best dressed when she can’t even dress for her own body type or her age is just sad.
Do I think she looks better when she sticks to her old fashioned, relatively frumpy style? yes. do I think that there is always something “off” about her outfits? Yes. Wrong jewelry, wrong shoes, wrong fit, wrong length – those are things a stylist would help her with.
But even when she looks nice (like the green dress at wimbledon for example), she’s not setting the fashion world on fire. She just looks fine.
All that to say – yeah this is an emotional support thing lol.
I’m with you, @Becks1, I think if your native style is “frump” just lean in and love it. The late Queen was happy and delighted with one mode of dress — bright colour, a simple cut, crew neck collar, a few big buttons, hem hitting just below the knee — for quite literally decades. That was her uniform. Off-duty, it was a tweed skirt, cinched-waist blazer, cashmere pullover, and low heels. It was just authentic. Anne is very similar. To me, that might not read as fashion for Vogue, but it’s a personal choice, it has that integrity. Kate kind of reminds me of what Kennedy said about Richard Nixon in 1960: “he has to decide who he is when he looks in the mirror to put on his clothes every day.”
No one fashionable looks to dress like Kate. Most of the praise in the article relates to return from hibernation so it’s another prize for just showing for Katie.
I liked the style of the dress but it was totally the wrong colour and the bit of fabric was too hot for the day. On a different occasion it could look good.
Ah ha ha ha ha ha *gasp choke*
Sorry, please excuse me, that went down the wrong way.
I’ll see myself out. Need to go buy an ugly hat, a padded coatdress, some boring tiny necklaces, and about four dozen pairs of beige shoes…
Is it just me or does everything she wears look like it’s slung low on her hips?
All of her clothes look off in the hip area. I can’t pin point it other that her hips/thighs are soooo low?!? Lol
That’s mostly about her proportions – a very long torso and narrow hips with few natural curves. In my opinion, when she wears dresses with padding/peplum to give the illusion of hips it’s more flattering. For the most part, the fits are not great, which I think is a pretty important part of being well-dressed! You can wear the most fashionable designs but if there’s no awareness about how they fit you or whether they really suit the occasion, then that’s not “well-dressed”.
Kate has been obsessed with raising the waist on all her outfits to shorten her torso but it looks off because her hips are bony and ruin the illusion.
The peplum does hide that deception, but Kate has ideas and no one is going to convince her otherwise.
That yellow suit and big hat are giving Melania dictator’s wife energy.
Best dressed compared to what? Her step MIL who walks around looking like the grinch while her boobs are tapping out save us in morse code against her stomach? As an aside does Queen Jump off know she can buy supportive bras that don’t have wires in them? I REFUSE to wear bras with wires digging into me, so I buy the kind that give support with no wires. Anyway, she wears expensive clothes, and she looks nice most of the time but that’s it. She has no sense of personal style and cos plays her dead MIL and her SIL at all times, you can see that in the photos included. How can you be best dressed when you don’t know HOW to dress?
In the picture with the car when she’s wearing pale pink/beige/peach/sand? dress, she’s wearing the hat backwards.
That’s apparently fashion forward? (sorry, I can’t copy/paste the picture of the model wearing the hat the way it was intended to be worn).
HA! that’s like that scene in Dreamgirls when Deena makes them wear their wigs backwards because it would be ” different”.
She did that with a Gucci blouse, as I recall. In both these instances, I think it’s because she doesn’t know any better. Truly.
This is flat-out pandering.
There is no way in hell that Kate is the best-dressed woman in Britain. Better than Emma Watson and Simone Ashley?
The Kate who looked like a frumpy Maria von Trapp when she met with Melania Trump for an event with the Scouts? The Kate who can’t accessorize to save her life?
It’s the Kate version of William’s emotional support poll, that’s all.
She’s best dressed because she’s like a size zero or something, and all designers know how to make a size zero look good. Most of us would look lumpy as sausages in the things she wears.
Beyond that, her buttony coat dresses, nude heels, and theme dresses reveal a real lack of panache. (Still better than her prairie dress days though)
Actually, not true. I’m a 0-2, depending on the manufacturer (5’1″ on a good day, 99/100 lbs), and everything does NOT look good at that size, you’d be surprised (I was! lol). There is a variety of body shapes in this size, too; you can be pear shaped, boxy, wide shouldered, long/short waisted, a fuller (though small) bust, or flat (or Barbie like with implants! lol). You can have a flat butt or an exercised, muscled butt. But no matter your shape in whatever size, the clothes have to *fit*, and that does mean tailoring, which Keen Kitty rarely gets right: waistlines too high for her long torso, skirt length too long, to give an impression of longer legs. Clothes also *should* be age appropriate and by that I mean Peter Pan collars usually look pretty bad on anyone over 11. Sleeves need to hit right on the wrist, colors need to compliment your skin tone, not compete.
You get the idea. Just because I have the money to buy something in a small size or designer’s vision, doesn’t mean I’ll look good in it.
I have found my people! Can never find shoes size 5 or clothing size 2. OTOH…sometimes with sales, all the best stuff is that size.
So why don’t they make her look good?
She doesn’t follow the creators’ vision(s). She’s always altering, adding sleeves (or buttons!), padded shoulders, hemlines, colors, not using the accessories (shoes, scarves, belts, etc). Granted, sometimes, some things do need a bit to make it “appropriate” for her position (perhaps a bit of a raised neckline or netting, a bit of a longer hem), but *not* to the degree she does it.
Not true. You can be well dressed or poorly dressed at any size
Keen has always dressed terribly and looked poorly dressed. She also looks like she comes from an imaginary historic period, because she doesn’t dress like a modern person.
Queen Maxima and Crown Princess Victoria? They’re not size zero. They dress well, stylishly, and look good.
Max can go off into a bit crazy sometimes (feather trim on day dresses). Victoria had a love of miniskirts and shooties during the Estelle pregnancy that came in for some mocking.
Otherwise they dress well, fashionably, appropriately for royal work, and don’t look like historic cosplayers like keenbot.
Kate is proof that you can be tall, skinny and rich and still not look good. Because most of the time she does not. Even her better looks only exist as a comparison to the usual frump style. When real fashionistas show up she looks awkward all the time.
Kate’s ideal fashion would be skinny jeans and a fleece North Face vest. She’s a white millennial suburban PTA mom at heart. That’s why she looks so out of place in those ugly posh getups.
I feel attacked 🤣🤣🤣
(for the record we dont wear NF vests anymore. now its all about either cropped sweatshirts or loose cardigans.)
Tatler is a suck-up. So ready to throw their whole reputation and standards out the window to suck up to power. This is happening way too much in our world.
The only look I could get into was the pleated skirt … the rest is just a blur
She should not wear slacks…. I’ve never seen someone who didn’t look good in them… are there no tailors in the UK ?
Best dressed…compared to whom?
That’s what I want to know. Emma Thynne and her crowd would definitely top the best dressed list and some influencers that I can think of. Kate may be impressing 70 year old women with her JC Penney fashions, but I can’t think of anyone else who would find her fashions praise worthy. They may as well have chosen Camilla.
She has a long back and really terrible posture so the clothes end up looking awkward on her.
This feels like wishcasting.
Kate’s clothes have been ‘better’ in recent appearances but, as CBers have long lamented, her accessories are misses more often than hits, she has had very poor personal grooming in evidence and the situation of her hair looking perpetually unkempt is a problem.
She needs a dedicated team working with her so she can dress to meet her public role properly. Maybe Tatler wrote this to nudge KP in the right direction.
Does this mean that people in the UK don’t know how to dress? I notice that the women of the royal rota tend to copy Kate’s style BTW.
It’s not that the royal rota women are copying Kate’s style. Kate and those women dress the way typical English (white) women dress. British women are KNOWN (since before I was born) for dressing badly, even frumpily, while still believing themselves to be fashion plates, and acting as such. That’s why they all keep describing Kate as stunning. That’s how they see themselves when they dress like that. It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy, I guess. Not a good one, but they all buy into it.
I’ll say though, that there are quite a few of those royal commentators who make a living from slagging off M but have gone out of their way to dress like her instead of like Kate.
Ok, I gotta say it . She needs someone to up date her hats … that yellow dress she wore this summer ,not bad.
That yellow hat that looked like a plastic saucer .. was garish ..
The accessories so often hobble her outfits.
It was twinning with her new bestie, Melanoma Dumpster.
Kate’s an awkward mess.
Grooming and fashion go hand in hand but not with this princess.
Who could forget her Hobbit feet when she exposed them in public?
Dressing like an old woman who has no style, while middle aged. has to have awards!!! LOL
LMAO! Her best looks are boring AF. Everything else is mismatched, weirdly tailored, bad colors, awkward hems, twee, poorly edited, overly embellished, dated, matronly…..and the list goes on….
That’s embarrassing to all the other well dressed women out there .
I am prepared to admit that I think Kate’s lifted her game, lately. I have really liked a couple of things she’s worn, like that green dress she wore to the tennis, and I didn’t mind the Melania outfit, either, because I like to see her wearing proper hats. But when the bar had previously been set so very low, it didn’t take much to improve.
I thought it was not about her wardrobe
If KKKate is the Best Dressed British woman, the British Isles must be hella frumpy. I don’t believe that, so excuse me as I throw my head back in rictus laughter! 🤣😝🤪😄😂
They are? Don’t you remember the pics of Peter’s wedding? An endless row of frumpy ladies, ill fitting dresses and ridiculous head pieces! This wasn’t a meeting of some random suburbian housewives, this was Britain’s high society! But why would you wonder when throwing a yellow lemon-net on a hat makes you the best dressed lady in the UK…
It’s a safe approach. Not groundbreaking, but it works for the occasion.
Kate Mediocre. No thanks.
I do wonder if this is meant to be some sort of clap back at Natasha. Kate hasn’t been on this list in years. Some of her post Tash outfits have actually been pretty decent. Tatler wouldn’t have given Kate this award without KP’s full knowledge, perhaps request. I do continue to wonder why Tash really left, and this could have been Kate’s middle finger to here saying – see I don’t even need you.