I don't get the nasty snipes about their clothes choices. The rest of the BRF get an A+ through to D- but they do not get ridiculed or insulted on a personal level. IMO Zara's elephant trunk hat was every inch a match and more to Beatrice's ill starred antlers. But Zara's choice was just judged in passing, a comment or two (and it was ugly) whereas Beatrice was put through a press and forum hammering where every aspect of her life, her clothes, even her personality, were put under a microsope and found wanting. And it seems she is never to be forgiven.
Now every time someone doesn't like the girls ensemble choices there are nasty comments about their personal taste and intimations that perhaps their mother was their personal dresser. "Too fussy" is one of the nicer comments, "fashion advice from ther mother", "cartoonish", "ridiculous", wondering if they "own a mirror", "get dressed in the dark", "get freebies", look like "train wrecks", etc. are personal and often poisonous. And that is just in the last 20 posts. At least one person was honest enough to admit that it was just "so easy to have a laugh at their expense".
Why aren't we laughing with them like we do when any other royal gets it wrong? Why don't we laugh at a particular outfit or hat and just leave it at that? Why do we have to laugh at them personally, and intimate that they're not quite good enough to be royal in some odd way? The whole "but really dahrlings, they just can't help that they are just sooo trashy . . . perhaps their mother?" attitude really needs a turn around.
Perhaps if we actually objectively evaluated what we like and don't like we would see that wonderfully whimsical trait they both have reemerge to make us smile. Perhaps even Butterflies!