Queen Elizabeth at the G7 reception in Cornwall this evening:
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It is very, very rare that we get photos of HM outside without a coat and hat and what a wonderful 'reveal' it is. We see her beautiful and bountiful snow-white hair beautifully and elegantly coiffed and as a bonus, get a wonderful full view of her floral dress in natural daylight.
The Queen has a very specific 'uniform' for work which means a hat, coat and gloves. Her hair is most often seen beneath the brim of her hat and the dress as she moves and sits down and the coat gaps at the front. But seeing the entire dress from several different angles gives us a really good insight into just how cleverly Angela Kelly designs her clothes. The round necklines seem to differ in depth depending on the coat she is going to wear with it and/ the length of her single, double or triple strings of pearls.
I am most impressed by the fact that the sleeves of her dresses seem to always be three-quarter length to enable her to sit and sign documents and visitors books with ease as when one sits down, the sleeve of the shirt or dress peek out the end of the cuffs of the coat. Instead, we have white gloves, Also, the dresses she wears for video audiences seem to be made of a slightly heavier material and given the tiniest vertical puff which gives her shoulders a slightly more straight look, lessening the neck curve that comes with age.
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Queen Elizabeth at Trooping the Colour today,
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I really love the different style of the hat for this ensemble, it is one we rarely see but I should imagine she needed everyone to be able to see her face at least as well as when she wears a tiara. The coat is also a more flowing design rather than shaped. But as with many of her clothes, she has worn this ensemble several times, firstly at Ascot 2019 where it really shone with the gold floral embroidery and then, for the downsized State Opening of Parliament.
Here again, HM has demonstrated her tendency to tweak an ensemble, as shown, the coat was changed to add large covered buttons for the more formal State Opening of Parliament and the Trooping of the Colour this year, 2021.
To see this is so heartwarming to me.
