OK, I have a few questions for those of you who know more about fashion protocol in the RF than I do: Could someone explain HOW the Queen is supposed to " approve" her granddaughters' in law new atelier clothing?
As much atelier wear as we read about them wearing and likely that much which we don't read about in the press which they buy per month, Kate's recycled lovely reworn items not counted, how exactly does a 93 year old Monarch have time, patience, and interest and so forth to approve or disapprove of all of it as well?
I can't imagine her interest in fairly conservatively styled daywear, evening wear, travel-friendly ensembles, etc.
Let's say one has commissioned an atelier fashion from the designer's sketches ( they possibly or probably have multiple items being made in the workroom at a time) which costs 50,000 or 75,000 pounds.
Atelier wear cannot, by description be cancelled or vastly modified. The designers of the fashion houses of Alexander McQueen, Oscar de la Renta, Givenchy, and some British designers as well as other couture fashion houses, are totally used to dressing the world's most famous and wealthiest women, including the MANY ladies in the Royal Houses of the Nordic countries.
If the Queen has to approve what the two ladies wear, do they take the sketches and fabric swatches to her, or do they pay for their 50,000 p. dress ( sorry I do not know how to make the mark for pounds sterling) and stick it in the closet if the Queen doesn't approve, or take it in for slight modifications if time allows, or what? The fabric, of course, can't be changed... If it's neon orange like a safety vest, then one is going to an event looking like a traffic cone. ( I hate orange and neons as the major colors,so that's what came to mind. No reflection, ha, on what anyone has ever worn).
