When Kate Middleton stepped out of the car at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding, people had a lot of questions.
First, there were those asking if the Duchess of Cambridge had broken the ultimate wedding rule and worn cream to someone else’s wedding. Then, there were those insistent that Kate’s decision to recycle an old outfit was actually her way of not stealing the limelight from the bride, Meghan.
But then we realised that Kate was actually wearing a very pale yellow colour, in order to fit in with Meghan and Harry’s royal wedding colour scheme. And here’s where things got confusing. Because, isn’t the outfit that people were suggesting she’d recycled cream, rather than yellow? Here’s a pic of her at Princess Charlotte’s christening wearing the Alexander McQueen dress.
And here’s the royal wedding outfit – also Alexander McQueen – again:
While both coat dresses were made by Alexander McQueen, it turns out they are, in fact, slightly different. Spotted by Instagram user royaladdicted2, aside from the subtle colour differences, the royal wedding coat also features buttons on the cuff, which the original dress doesn’t.
Of course, Kate Middleton knows exactly what looks good on her and is a fan of buying multiple dresses/coats/shoes in the same style but different colours, as this post proves.
#royalstyle – The Duchess of Cambridge wore an Alexander McQueen's coat for Harry and Meghan's wedding; and no, it's not the same coat she wore for Charlotte's christening, and in other two occasions (here pictured in Belgium in 2017). – Even if it looks the same coat, one is cream (first pic) and one is "primrose yellow" (you can see it's not cream in the official wedding's portrait, and also if we compared it with Charlotte's dress, which is white). – And if we look at the details, the one she wore for the wedding has buttons on the cuffs that the cream one doesn't have . It's not the first time Kate wore identical (or very similar) dresses/coats in two different colors: 2) Dresses by Preen, she has it in black and in red; 3) Dresses by Emilia Wickstead, in blue and in pink; 4) Coats by Catherine Walker, in red and in cornflower blue; 5) Jackets by Philosophy by Lorenzo Serafini, in red and in blue; 6) Coats by Emilia Wickstead, one in blue and one in green; 7) Dresses by Amanda Wakeley, in cream and in grey; 8) Coats by Dolce & Gabbana (not exacly the same) in burgundy and in green; 9) Blazers by Smythe, in blue and in green. #britishroyalfamily #britishroyals #brf #duchessofcambridge #duchessofcambridgestyle #katemiddleton #catherinemiddleton #samedress #instafashion #fashion #instaroyals #royaladdicted2fashion
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