Dear Members,
One of the most truly idiotic ideas floating around in royalty circles is this bizarre idea that a person of high rank in royalty who obviously does a great deal of appearing in public and is seen and photographed should never wear the same clothes more than once.
I have never understood why. At the same time there are those people who have, it seems nothing better to do with their time than count the number of times queen so and so or her royal highness etc wore this dress here and there and this evening gown nine times in the part 17 years.
Case in point is the drop dead and idisputably gorgeous Princess Mary, she wore these lovely clothes and then, having the good sense that matches her looks wore them again. If you have a really nice dress or gorgeous evening gown why in the world would you wear it only once. Makes no sense to me.
I notice that nobody has commented that Prince Frederick had on the same grey suit or the same black evening wear that he has worn 9 times before. As for the jewelry, Princess Mary has worn the incredible Desiree Clary parure any number of times, should we have a new set of jewels everytme there is an important occasion?
I think the worst waste is Queen Elizabeth II, she has some stunning stuff that she can only wear once. What a loss. If it looks great once, why can't it look as great or even better the second time around?
Of course, being an impoverished peasant and a man I have gotten away with recycling my clothes for years. I wore one dearly beloved jacket for over twenty five years until it almost fell apart, or if truth to tell I got to "hefty" to wear it. I have even broken down sometimes and in a moment of weakness washed my clothes or even had them, horrors, dry cleaned. But then, from a vulgar red neck men, what else would you expect? Cheers.
