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07-28-2014, 12:04 AM
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Sometimes women feel like they are in rut with fashion and want shake it up a bit. I think she looks great and a bit quirky for her here but then again she is one who can look regal in potato sack :)
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08-04-2014, 05:20 AM
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Queen Mathilde looking lovely in a new light blue dress and matching hat at a ceremony for the 100th anniversary of the First World War at the Saint-Laurent Abbey in Liege on August 4:
** Full view ** Upper part ** Side view **
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08-04-2014, 07:46 AM
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She looks lovely and elegant as usual, I love the hat and hair too but the neckline seems a bit spare to me. A brooch or pearls would have been nice.
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08-04-2014, 09:33 AM
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She looks nice, but I don't care for the hat; looks like a wok turned sideways.
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08-04-2014, 09:41 AM
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The dress is nice but it needed something to spice it up, a nice broche or something. The hat is also too plain to make a difference.
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08-04-2014, 09:42 AM
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I don't like her outfit, especially her hat. This grey hat makes her older and tired. Not her colour.
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08-04-2014, 09:53 AM
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The whole outfit is a bit plain. While the dress she wore in Normandy was simple but "complete", this one seems like it's missing something. A brooch would have completed the look. I like the dress colour but hat ages her a bit
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08-04-2014, 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Mirabel
She looks nice, but I don't care for the hat; looks like a wok turned sideways.
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I hadn't noticed the hat until I looked at it for the second time, and I do agree with you about it looking like a wok. It reminds me a little of a hat Princess Eugenie wore a while ago. Having said that, Mathilde looks elegant and sophisticated (as always), and I love that shade of blue on her.
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08-04-2014, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Marchesina
The whole outfit is a bit plain. While the dress she wore in Normandy was simple but "complete", this one seems like it's missing something. A brooch would have completed the look. I like the dress colour but hat ages her a bit
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I was thinking it was missing something. A brooch is a great idea. Other than that, the only thing that I could comment on is she needs some smoother undergarments. The top of the dress especially caught my eye, it looks like there are some weird layers underneath.
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08-04-2014, 11:28 AM
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Yeah, there is something going on with the top of the dress.
I really like the color and style, but I do agree that it needs a brooch or something to liven it up.
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08-04-2014, 11:42 AM
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I think this is one of the loveliest outfits I've seen on Mathilde.
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08-04-2014, 11:46 AM
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Also i think this can be considered a timeless outfit. Something that would have easily been considered fashionable 20 years ago and we won't change our mind about it in a 20 years time. I think it was perfect for such an occasion.
If she only had accessorized it a bit more...
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08-04-2014, 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by iceflower
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Queen Mathilde looking lovely in a new light blue dress and matching hat at a ceremony for the 100th anniversary of the First World War at the Saint-Laurent Abbey in Liege on August 4:
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Love the dress, but not the hat. Elegant overall.
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08-04-2014, 01:06 PM
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The dress per se is fine. The hat, however, is a totally unflattering choice. A usual wide-brimmed hat would have been much better.
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08-04-2014, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by princess gertrude
I was thinking it was missing something. A brooch is a great idea. Other than that, the only thing that I could comment on is she needs some smoother undergarments. The top of the dress especially caught my eye, it looks like there are some weird layers underneath.
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The dress needs to be better lined.
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08-04-2014, 03:36 PM
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The outfit minus the hat is lovely and Her Majesty looks very graceful today.
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08-04-2014, 04:29 PM
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The outfits of Mathilde and Kate were not celebrated to day.
It was a remembering day and the BBC did at Saint Symphorien Cemetery a very moving Celebration.
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08-04-2014, 05:39 PM
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^^^ I agree. It was not about how the ladies looked, but a solemn day of remembrance.
Though I think that Mathilda's outfit was perfect for the occasion and looked very smart on her. It's one of her best looks, IMO. I don't mind the wok look. Perhaps the milliner had in mind the soldiers' helmets from WWI when he/she designed it as the hat does vaguely resemble that shape. Or maybe it's just a wok.
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08-04-2014, 05:43 PM
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She looks nice, but I don't care for the hat; looks like a wok turned sideways.
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The hat is supremely elegant and, if anything, reminiscent of an English field helmet of the time 
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08-04-2014, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by gerry
The hat is supremely elegant and, if anything, reminiscent of an English field helmet of the time |
Snap! That very thought occurred to me after I'd posted my original comment so I edited it.
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