Queen Sonja's Fashion and Style Part 1: April 2004 -

[Her_Majesty]

A red Gala Dress worn for Carl Gustav’s 50th birthday, Margrethe’s 60th birthday and the State Visit to Switzerland last year


Corbis, aftenposten

[Her_Majesty]

One of her favourite outfits

She wore this orange jacket and skirt several times

• During the StateVisit from Japan
• During the 100th Coronation celebration
• During a Visit to Asia

I bet she wore it a thousand times more.

1+2 UK Press, 3 Fotobank

[Her_Majesty]

This red dress

• worn during the Coronation Celebration
• worn for the StateVisit to Asia
• and she wore it for an official engagement last week

UK Press, Viennareport, Nrk

I wonder if she ever wore an outfit only 1 time.

[Incas]

I think the dress looks better with the red jack on.

[Her_Majesty]

Another favourite



Seegerpress, Anb, Anb, polfoto, Seegerpress

She wore it for several dinners in Norway , the Statevisit from Bulgaria, for the 60's birthday of Margrethe II , the Visit from Elizabeth II in 2001 and some other State Visits

[Her_Majesty]

She also recycled some... crazy ... dresses:

The Flower Gown:
First Time
Second Time

I hope she disposed it.. but I have a bad feeling
IMO it was too extravagant and she didn't look good in it at all..

[Her_Majesty]

Recycling a 14 (!!!) years old dress :

She wore a dark blue galagown 3 times: The first time she wore it for a Visit to Island in 1992; then it appeared again in Germany in 1994; and we got to see it again for a Statenaquet in 2006.

See her wearing the dress all three times here.

It must be a good feeling to fit into a dress you wore more then 10 years ago!

[seto]

Originally Posted by Her_Majesty

She also recycled some... crazy ... dresses:

The Flower Gown:
First Time
Second Time

I hope she disposed it.. but I have a bad feeling
IMO it was too extravagant and she didn't look good in it at all..

I hope she burned it that gown was hideous. Nobody could look good in that dress.

[Her_Majesty]

A simple black hat
http://www.anp-photo.com/search.pp?page=8&ShowPicture=3824085&pos=78

A rather strange hat worn in ireland
http://www.anp-photo.com/search.pp?page=9&ShowPicture=3766789&pos=86

A blue Ufo
(To be honest: I LOVE this one)
http://www.anp-photo.com/search.pp?page=1&ShowPicture=2307343&pos=2
http://www.anp-photo.com/search.pp?page=1&ShowPicture=2307339&pos=3

A white UFO
http://www.knudsensfotosenter.no/fotoweb/Preview.fwx?position=1907&archiveType=ImageFolder&sorting=ModifiedTimeAsc&search=dronning%20and%20sonja&fileId=F81AD8E8988DDBEA02389A81A43CB002B5C084CC1752801DC6713E47AA9532B1C14C1835D4F404FF5FA507C96BCE840254701E94B8C771D9B5C084CC1752801D5CFE455376F019E4F7A951006283D5738EF583BC8FC71CBAF21549B35840BAE3B71EA1C3964DCAA6B4EE4059EBC32051CDF54EDD889C2D3CCF4104FCE501C7D3D124645DE24261DBECE0B7C2408388A1
KnudsensFotosenter

[Her_Majesty]

Another UFO-hat (KnudsensFotosenter)
I wonder who is the designer...
does anyone know?

[HRH Mims]

Another Sonja's hats:

http://photobank.ru/image/R018-6124.html - I love this one
http://photobank.ru/image/SP00-3536.html - black hat
http://photobank.ru/image/SP00-2939.html - but this is one of my most favorite

[Her_Majesty]

Here are some of Sonja's Holmenkollen-caps:

A huge, brown fur cap
Norwegian-Colours-Cap in 1971
Blue plush cap
Watching the Skijumping with MargretheII, wearing a red cap
Another red one in the 90s
A white fur cap (Märtha wearing the same )
And another white one

pictures: Knudsens Fotosenter

[Her_Majesty]

Brasil 2003:
Just look at this interesting head-piece .
It looks interesting to me...

[sm1939]

Originally Posted by Her_Majesty

Brasil 2003:
Just look at this interesting head-piece .
It looks interesting to me...

sort of thing Mette Marit would wear , dont you think??

[Vanesa]

I can't said I specially like it...

Vanesa.

[HRH Mims]

well Sonja has never ending fantasy
but that hat/headpiece/something else is lovely

[barber]

I think they don't know howmutch hats they have, I will have a look inthere closet !! sorry for my english.

[Her_Majesty]

Side 2 has a little collection of the gowns and outfits loves most and she recycles regularly:

En dronning på gjenbruk - Side2
(Scroll down)

I have to say... Some of Sonja's dresses are so stunning (e.g. the gorgeous green gown she wore for Haakon's wedding! It's so beautiful! Or the purple-silver one. Stunning) and others are simply (e.g. the yellow one,... which is her favorite (I guess noone knows why)).

I have to say... it's sad Sonja altered the sleeves of the green gown! I loved the "wings"!

[dalia]

Thank you Her_Majesty for all your efforts, it certainly took you quite some time just to pick the pictures to display. The what you are calling the UFO hats, are the entertaining part in this thread. At first, I was a little shocked with the name UFO, but taking a good look at the style of hats, I couldn't choose a better name. They really looked queer. I wonder what was the designer thinking when he/she were making them?

[dalia]

I personaly like the queen sonja's fashion and style and I found her stunning in this photo Supload.com // Free Image Hosting that she wore on crown prince Fredrick and princess Mary's wedding, she looked absolutely queenie. I also liked her in this dress that she wore in sweden, she looked gorgeous too http://img11.imagevenue.com/view.php...eden_453lo.jpg . In my opinion and we could differ in this, I prefer to see her covering her shoulders with a shawl,a piece of chiffon or silk or putting an elegant jacket. I believe that she is a very stylish queen and her choice of jewels and bags is very good too.

As for the queen's worst choices, I personally put the dragon look alike dress as the worst choice http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/6...onja478ln6.jpg , it was quite shocking, it lacked the design and the colour too, even if it was plain, the design is a failure whether on her or any other, and the shocking part is that she looked quite happy in it. The second worst choice, in my opinion, is the famous yellow dress, not because of it's design rather than the colour itself, but unfortunately, the queen seems to like that colour, and I am still looking for the picture of a similar dress, with the same colour but with a few changes, it had big yellow flowers on the upper part of the dress, but the colour is exactly the same.
As for the queen's choice of hats, I believe that she is quite successful in her choices, except for the UFO hats. In general, I do like her style and fashion and I think that she is one of the elegant queens of Europe (only my personal point of view, we could differ in this).