Princess Caroline of Monaco. Daughter, I believe, of Grace Kelly. The mind reels. What can we learn from this? First: tailored and elegant is always a much better bet than crazy and flouncy. Save the crazy and flouncy for senior prom. Second, this is also an issue of scale: if the body is swathed all in one dark color, and then one carries a tiny, bright bag, one looks absolutely enormous by comparison, as if one is carrying a Barbie accessory.
P.S. I swear I saw that exact bag at Filene’s Basement a few weeks ago.
Oh no! What a horrible ensemble! Even worse when you consider that it probably cost in the five figure range.
Oh…oh dear…all she needs to complete it is a doctoral hood. She already has the velvet sleeve stripes.
Plus I don’t want to be wondering if she’s wearing any underwear.
You looked at that see-through outfit and only saw the PURSE!? Your mind is clearly elevated further above the gutter than mine.
That horizontal velvet stripe is the only thing between misguided Caroline and some serious Festival of Inappropriate Nipplage Sharing.
Or does it simply go without saying that ministers should avoid transparent garb? 😀
Girlfriend needs to get herself to Macy’s for a new bra because the good people of Monaco need not see the princess’s, um, princesses.
Wow…I guess wealth doesn’t buy good fashion sense.
Dears, Dears, y’all were so busy looking at H.R.H Princess Caroline’s hideous dress and bargain basement and unmatching bag that y’all neglected to notice that H.S.H the Prince of Monaco’s tuxedo, while appropriate in style, is a size too small. Don’t these royals have a valet or somebody to protect them from their own faux pas?
Looks like a cute dress underneath the petticoat she decided, for some reason, to wear over her shoulders.
The beaded curtain she wrapped around her knees, though… kids these days! I swear (often and loudly).
Bad dye job, too. The dark, solid block of color is too harsh for her, and looks very dull. Her hands looks nice, though.
Maybe it’s just a rich thang, and we can’t understand it.
Mrs. M, you are really a nice person to comment that Caroline’s hands look good. I hope you are in the public service sector, because the world needs more nice.
Larry, you’re right. The tux is simultaneously too small and too long…But! This is an important lesson for SweetieBang: your lady will need to be truly atrociously dressed to distract from your own frump. And since PB doesn’t DO atrocious, SB must be ever vigilant.
I thought the color of the purse (which even my 10 year old has disdained as too little-girly) was of a distractingly different tone from her lipstick/nail polish/ring/Prince’s pocket square. I’ve come back to the photo several times and I keep losing myself in the mix.
Which is not to say that I think she could look sort of cute, if she FOCUSED.
What the …? This woman was a MODEL of elegance from age 14 on! What has happened all of a sudden? I have never seen her in this kind of getup, and I’ve been a Caroline-watcher (the name, you know) since adolescence. Caroline of Monaco has always dressed in understated designer mode or close to it, with perfectly cut clothes, for years and years.
I think the pods have taken over her brain or something. I can hardly believe this. You’re sure it’s not photoshopped?
I’m trying really hard not to blame menopause here. (She and I are about the same age and I am a little obsessed with this [peri]menopause thing right now and whether it really does make one a little crazy or whether that’s all a patriarchal invention. When I find out I’ll let you know.) But it makes you wonder. ’cause this is totally out of character for her.
The prince has never been quite the same paragon of elegance as his sister (this sister, that is; Stephanie has had a few fashion issues in her day) and his waistline has fluctuated in the last few years, so I am less surprised there. Plus he is not wearing flounces.
I’m still aghast and slightly disbelieving.
{fans herself vigorously} {no, it’s not hot flashes}
This reminds me of something Cher would wear if Cher were the mother of the bride. Without the little purse of course.
Did anyone else get flashbacks to Priscilla the Queen of the Desert…?