I just couldn't resist poking my oar into this gloriously tempting thread!
My all time nightmare outfit is that frock the Princess Royal wore to Charles and Diana's wedding and hauled back out of the mothballs again over two decades later to wear to another family wedding... I believe it may have been for Lady Rose Windsor's nuptials on that second occasion!
That frock to me, the first time round conjured an image of little Peter and Zara, having been rathe naughty and having thrown there breakfast time boiled eggs and yoke dipped toasted soldiers at Mummy when she had gone to see them on her way to St Paul's on that sunny July morning in 1981! That frock was almost as memorable as seeing Diana emerging from the glass coach, looking like she had literally slept for several consecutive days in her cringe-making crumpled and horribly creased wedding dress!!!!!! The Emanuels must have wanted the floor to open when they saw what had happened to the meringue like fairy tale creation during that short carriage ride from Clarence House!!!!
Then all those years later the 'egg-spattered' frock made that second appearance and this time I was put in mind of a victim of a paint ball game where the opponents had had yellow-orange paint balls in there weapons and that from the liberality of the splodges on her frock, the Princess Royal had evidently not been very good at finding cover during the game!
In the younger generation I can not help but frequently cringe when Beatrice and Eugenie play dress up and go out to play! Eugenie's Young Victoria gown was absolutely not for her...poor thing......it made her look like a weetbix IMHO! Which should never have happened if she had had 'kindly' and truthful stylist/friend/mother/sister on hand when she first tried it on! Somehow those York girls never seem to get it 'quite' right! Admittedly on occasion they are passable and presentable and I know they are young, but goodness me! And then there were those fascinator titfer thingies they developed a pash for!
Remember that swarm of butterflies that appeared to be erupting from the side of Beatrice's lustrous Titianesque red locks combined with a red,yellow splodged top and peacock type inspired blue,blown, turquoise butterfly-ish (the dyes ran a bit on a hot wash type) print skirt - it was a horror combination IMHO!
At the same wedding, Eugenie fared little better in her white fascinator that looked like a napkin that had been rolled up into an attempt at a decorous table setting piece from a pretentious restaurant and her rah rah skirt was simply urgh!!!! The pair should have sacked their stylist(s) if they actually had one at the time for allowing them out during day light hours in such disasters!!!!
But I must try to be charitable as Bea and Eugenie are still young! But I shall say that I do not remember ever shrieking in abject horror at any real disasters cladding the likes of say Madeleine or Charlotte C. at the same age...though I am sure they may have made a few dodgy choices on occasion!