Hello Plant, I found these prices and items on Meghan’s Mirror. I didn’t calculate evry item and some items where sold out or bespoke. I didn’t repeat the items she did recycle a little. Engagement interview (?) Parosh dress
Engagement pics 75000
Nottingham 400 skirt + 600 purse + 250 boots
Sandrigham 798 boots + 1400 purse + (?) hat + 1300 coat
Brixton (?) pants + 725 ring + (?) M&S jumper
Wales 1500 coat+ 825 boots+ 375 purse+ 200 pants + 495 jacket + 1495 Birks ring + various earrings
Endeavour Awards 280 shirt + 1500 blazer + 600 pants + 2000 clutch
Scotland 2400 coat + 560 bag + 395 pants + Birks jewelry for 12000
Fab Four Royal forum 700 shoes + 2000 dress + 90 earrings
NI 445 skirt + 350 bag + 625 pumps
Invictus rehearsals 2400 jewelry + 498 boots + 200 coat
Young women Birmingham 210 coat + 1350 bag + cross bracelet 650 + 950 rose du matin bracelet
Commonwealth service 675 dress + 1100 jacket + (?) hat + 625 shoes + 625 purse
Commonwealth CHOGM empowerment 400 dress + 750 shoes
Commonwealth youth forum 550 jacket + 1700 dress + 475 shoes + 300 bag
Invictus Reception dress 600 + 12500 earrings Cartier + 1000 Natalie Marie Ring + Roland Mouret Purse 900
Queens Birthday dress aprox 2000 + 1490 clutch + 625 shoes + set of esrrings and two bracelets Shaun Lean 8700
Stephen Lawrence Memorial dress 595 + clutch 350 + shoes 625
Anzac Memorial Smythe coat 750+ 395 shoes + 900 Gucci clutch
Anzac Service Jimmy Choo clutch 950 + 1050 hat + EW Bespoke dress 2000 (?)
Wedding 200000 dollars Givenchy + 100000 Stella + 68000 Cartier earrings + 155000 bracelet + 800 (?) shoes
PC birthday 5300 (as on MMirror)
Trooping 1100 hat + 5000 dress (?) + Carolina Herrera clutch
Chester 1050 bag+ 350 pumps+ 2000 bespoke dress and cape (?) +
Spencer Wedding 5000
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I would take off the wedding dresses and the shoes, just to be fair. That’s a special occasion and I would expect those prices to be through the roof.
However, that’s still close to 400,000 dollars ($390k according to my math and we are still missing several items like the VB sweater and some stuff that doesn’t have prices).
To put that in context, Kate’s most expensive fashion year ever was 2017. She spent $160k.
She spent about 105k pounds in her first year as a royal (roughly, Liz Jones’ calculations cover June 2011-2012). Her most expensive piece of jewelry was an Asprey necklace that cost 3k pounds.
LOL, I remember thinking that was absolutely ridiculous, but Meghan has spent FOUR TIMES the amount in six months. Heck, I think Kate’s entire first year clothing allowance barely covers ONE of Meghan’s Cartier bracelets.
This is absolutely insane.
Thank you so much for doing this. I owe you big time.
On the left is the promo shot of the Oscar de la Renta dress. On the right, is the Duchess of Sussex wearing it. Note that in the promotional photo it is shown as a drop waist dress, but Meghan is wearing it in a blouson style. Looks like she picked a drop waist dress that is too long for her to wear as drop waist (looks like the hem might drag if she did), so she’s wearing it blouson style, which is not flattering. Makes the dress look like it is swamping her.
Just looked at the links for the dress (Moda Operandi’s site and Vogue’s slideshow of the collection) and realized that this is a 2019 Resort dress! In other words, won’t be available for purchase until the fall. How common is this for royals to do this? I’m trying to think of a similar situation. This is common with celebrities for them to borrow and wear the sample, but royals??
On the left is the promo shot of the Oscar de la Renta dress. On the right, is the Duchess of Sussex wearing it. Note that in the promotional photo it is shown as a drop waist dress, but Meghan is wearing it in a blouson style. Looks like she picked a drop waist dress that is too long for her to wear as drop waist (looks like the hem might drag if she did), so she’s wearing it blouson style, which is not flattering. Makes the dress look like it is swamping her.
April 29th 2011, the Duchess of Cambridge wearing Alexander McQueen for her evening wedding reception at Buckingham Palace | May 19th, 2018 the Duchess of Sussex wearing Stella McCartney for her evening wedding reception at Frogmore House
The Duchess of Cambridge departing from Westminster Abbey in a bespoke Sarah Burton from Alexander McQueen gown and the Duchess of Sussex departing seven years later from St. George’s Chapel in a bespoke Clare Waight Keller from Givenchy
gown
Meghan is stupid. Her wedding dress will ultimately go down as boxy and potentially ill-fitting. The exquisite tailoring on Kate’s McQueen dress is more evident in comparison.
Moreover, choosing a French label instead of a British or Commonwealth one? Absolute PR fail. They keep trying to push the designer’s name Clare Waight Keller), but it’s who Waight Keller works for and who made it that is official. No one says Kate’s dress was a Sarah Burton dress!
Meghan’s dress emphasizes that she has no waist. Why would you wear something like that??? It looks like one giant sheet of cloth that no one bothered to take in around her torso.
“Lots of royal ladies have good fashion sense, but I think we can all agree that the award for BEST dressed royal goes to Infantas Leonor and Sofia.“ – Submitted by Anonymous
It fit the theme, which was Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination. It’s not just a ballgown with a head piece, aka Blake NotSoLively. That said, I think Rihanna’s outfit must have been annoying to sit on with all those pearls and beads. I would have been uncomfortable.
I think the best of the night was Zendaya’s Joan of Arc look:
I think my favorite dress in the “ball gown” category from the Met was Emilia Clarke’s Dolce & Gabbana dress:
Rihanna attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City.
Rihanna attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City.
Rihanna attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City.
EMILIA CLARKE @ the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art | May 7, 2018 in New York City
Rihanna attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City.
My “Good” post mostly consisted of looks that were appropriate to the occasion, but just oddly sized or sourced. The Bad post will be looks that were correctly executed but just weird-ass choices for royal engagements. As you can see, A LOT of these looks fall into this category.
The first look in this post is Nottingham. This was the first appearance after the white bathrobe. The expectations were really high and the end result was total flop. We almost never see pics from Nottingham and there’s a good reason for that.
Her hair was fine and the coat (wonder of wonders) actually fit! Everything, however, was too dark and dreary. This was her first “villainous henchman” look as she looked like she was accompanying General Hux on a planet-destroying mission or something. The boots were just completely awful. They looked like hooves.
The “Spectre employee” look would go on to become a recurring theme, as would the “channeling fashion icon X” phenomenon. This time it was CBK, but we would go on to have Audrey Hepburn, Kate Middleton, Diana, and Jackie O looks. This was also the first “prop handbag” sighting, a theme that Meghan will hammer into the ground in future engagements. She only let go of it when the DM finally mocked her on their front page.
Then we had Sandringham and the immortal poo emoji hat. Like the looks I listed in the “Good” post, this was another attempt to channel regalness. It failed, no only because of the ridiculousness of the hat and the purse and the whole “costume” look going on but also because she walked right next to Kate’s glorious Christmas coat giving everyone a perfect “real” vx. “fake” moment.
I still have no idea why she went with browns for Christmas.
The “poo emoji” phenomenon was real, though. Everyone pretty much thought the same thing when they saw that hat.
I’m sticking Brighton into the “Ugly” post, so I’m going to skip right into Cardiff and THE ULTIMATE Spectre henchman look. She legit looks like a Call of Duty enemy sniper.
LOL, I remember wondering why her bun was so messy here. Little did I know it would actually get worse. I think this is the first time that Meghan’s hair really undermines her look, as this Hello cover illustrates.
I still have not clue why she likes the all-black look so much. She’d used it again in Brixton so this was her second all-black look. Whyyyyyyy?
This was the outfit that was mocked by the Daily Mail front page. The mismatched earrings (remember those!) really jumped the shark with this one.
I’m sticking the inside look into the “Ugly” post, so let’s move on to the Endeavor awards. Her looks had been underwhelming at this point, but I think this was the first real disappointment for Meghan’s sugar press. They were expecting a pretty dress and they got a bland tux instead.
This was the first big downgrade in Meghan’s fashion headlines. Before this, the press would label anything she wore (no matter how hideous ) as “stunning” and “iconic.” This tux, however, was labeled “chic” and “elegant.” This is another look that went into the memory hole, but not before giving rise to countless “missing Suits?” “well-suited,” and “it suits” her puns all bringing her Hollywood background back into the spotlight.
It also didn’t help that Kate had recently worn a glorious McQueen outfit in Sweden, giving rise to unfavorable comparisons.
Another sniper look! This was Birmingham. I’m going to stick the inside look in the “Ugly” post so I don’t really have much to say abut this one, other than cross bracelet merching, ugh. Also, I guess this is where she got mud on her shoes?
What I find amazing about these outfits is that, as with the “Halo” dress, she consistently reinforces her “Hollywood” brand and misses opportunities to develop a “royal” brand.
Another odd thing is that when she’s not consciously imitating a royal (as in the “Good” post outfits), she consistently looks like a Hollywood action movie villain–dark colors, trench coats, stilettos.
Well, that’s it for their engagements, so let’s break down what we’ve got from Meghan so far. I’m going to get the shortest section of this post out of the way first, so the best looks go first and the total fug goes last.
THE GOOD
Engagement photocall. I know I laughed at the bathrobe pics, but now I think this is possible her BEST looks of all. Yes, the shoes were dirty, the hair and make-up was meh, and the Deal or No Deal pose was unintentionally hilarious, but it’s the only one of her pics that is still in heavy rotation, and, in retrospect, it was probably the best one of all. This was her “I’m trying to be a royal, y’all” look and it wasn’t a total failure.
It was also the one pic that her press unabashedly liked. After this came out, they started calling her “style icon in waiting.” LOLOLOL, little did they know what was coming up.
It didn’t fit and she failed the dress code and the hat looked like a pimple on her head, but she did manage to look like she at least tried to look like a royal. This was a 100% repliKate fail, but, at least she tried.
Dumpy, frumpy and it made her look like she was a thousand years old, but this Sophie cosplay was appropriate.
The shoes didn’t match and wtf with the juvenile astrology purse, but the hair was relatively neat and she looked appropriate, which is no surprise since she was channeling Letizia.
I think that’s it for the Good. These were her most successful looks. They were appropriate and her hair was relatively well styled. They were all uninspired and based on well-established royal looks, but there’s nothing wrong with that. If Meghan just downloaded Letizia’s wardrobe and faithfully copied from here on, she’d do fine.
Unfortunately, she isn’t doing that, which means she’s still susceptible to mess ups like this one.
This was fine and it kind of looked like a Kate dress. Even with the slut strands and Deal or No Deal pose (what is it with that show, it’s like she can’t shake off the training of something) this should have been an okay look for her.
I think the Halo dress perfectly summed up Meghan ‘s efforts to develop her royal “brand.” It’s amazing how well she fits into People’s red carpet celeb slideshow. You can hardly tell that she was attending a diplomatic receptions and not the opening of a box office bomb.
She tried to go for a repliKate, and ended wearing Kim Kardashian’s 2007 dress. No matter how hard she tried, somehow she always managed to slide back into generic celebrity style.
Okay, that’s it for this post. I’m afraid Tumblr is going to eat the posts up so I’ll to the Bad and the Ugly in other posts.
Oh, I suspect there were a ton of outfits and fittings and photos for these few minutes in the spotlight. Thanks to Meghan, I have enormous respect now for Kate and Tash’s prep work. They probably spent a few days just getting the baby blanket folds right.
And that Sara Vine article is absolutely correct about the importance of it. They are not celebs. They are symbols. Those pics will be posted and re-posted for decades. Those images are part of the country’s image and will become its history. They have to get it right.
EVENING DRESS | Worn for the State Visit to Nepal, February 1961 and for the Royal Film Performance of West Side Story, 1962.
This dress provides an excellent example of Hartnell’s skill as a designer for The Queen. The dress reflects the tailored silhouette of 1960s eveningwear while the rich embroidery and fabric sets the dress apart from his collection models for the season, turning it into a unique dress appropriate for The Queen’s duties. The Royal Collection.
Yep, you know, at the time I assumed that that was forced on her and that if you were a royal bride you HAD to use the Royal School of Needlework, Victorian flower language, lilies, traditional cake-making craftsmanship and all that stuff. I thought she just showed up and said “I like white,” and everything else they just kind of forced on her because “protocol” and “tradition.”
But, like, her vaunted discretion, it now appears to have been her own personality and her own appreciating for fine craftsmanship and tradition. Meghan has shown us that there is very little required protocol and tradition in any of this.
I’m starting to wonder if this is the correct take.
I saw a lot of people interpreting Meghan’s Commonwealth Service outfit as following the agreed-upon navy dress code. I actually interpreted it the exact opposite. I think her cream ensemble was designed to make her stand out. Yes, I know Anne also wore cream, but no one looks at Anne.
I suspect they were told to dress in navy so they wouldn’t upstage the Queen’s cranberry dress, and Meghan hogged the spotlight with her white coat and hat. Yes, it technically fit the dress code, but I doubt anyone was amused with her cleverness. Mocking Liam’s performance didn’t help her cause any, imo. The fact that a ton of people interpreted the dress code as the BRF supporting Meghan and not as everyone stepping into line and supporting the Queen was also not good.
Love Tessa Thompson wearing Rodarte SS18 in a Rodarte feature for PORTER
(Editor: Vanessa Shokrian
Photographer: Daria Ritch). Shot on location at the Getty Museum.
Holy guac. I CANNOT stop laughing about this. They are picking out a “Mr. Markle” makeover for him. Usually this goes the other way around and it’s the princess getting the makeover. LOL, not this time.
I can’t over stress how brilliant KUWTBD’s “Meghan is the sophisticated royal and Harry the peasant fiancee” summation was. She really nailed it.
House of Brat 