COME ALONG
Sickening debutante taffeta like something from a Dafydd Jones + the famous too-sultry “Di Takes The Plunge” black strapless
Diana didn’t often wear pants in public at this point tho she would have worn them at Balmoral—more importantly she never would have worn this scarf; too bohemian, but it’s a nice take on her pre-Vogue late teens Sloane Square sloppishness
Most essential part of any “Diana at 18-19” portrayal right here
Diana: “I’M COUNTRY GIRL AT HEART!!!”
Narrator: she wasn’t
Laura Ashley chintzy and the witty animal knits
I love this attention to bad detail
MORE PIE CRUSTS THAN A THANKSGIVING BUFFET
Reminds me precisely of those wonderfully wretched Laura Ashley puff sleeve dresses from the early 80s 😌
UNBELIEVABLE...though Diana later described herself in secret tapes released a few years ago as a “fat Sloane” during this interview; her dramatic weight loss before the wedding isn’t touched upon here, only her bulimia
Before our girl got her Cartier Tank (she wore Charles’s, the big one, to wish him luck while playing polo)
With a very period accurate tea length full skirt!
More crust!!! Reminds me of the Emanuel blouse Lord Snowden photographed her in for British Vogue in 1981
Back to this old chestnut!!!!
THE FAMOUS SHEEP SWEATER worn both ways (string tie, pie crust) at once
THE ACCURACY (plus one of my five favorite photos of Di ever, from over a decade later, just for fun)
More Laura Ashley
We’ve come to the Devotion to Sailor Collars arc
A very plush Camilla, lacking the requisite brittle horsiness
Cutesy suits
Liberty Prints (the irony!) for the wedding rehearsal
Of course by now we’ve all seen this!!!
Pregnancy puff sleeves
Welcome!!!!! To the printed silk polyester portion of our programming!
Very reminiscent of Diana’s incredible collection of MONDI skirt suits. MONDI is an Escada diffusion line; you can find quite a lot of it on etsy, I have several pieces
SETTING SAIL AGAIN!
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Sailing away sail away sail away
Uncrustingbelievable
More printed silkzzzzzzzz
AN ADDENDUM!
It’s really about the hat
One of her best “worst” dresses ever for sure
This, again, but with the green collar instead of the white
This, again, but with the pillbox instead of the netted cloche
WOOOWOOOOOO
At last my phone background makes an appearance
This is a bit out of order but important to have ❤️
Shimmying towards the Dynasty Di color palette (but not yet the big shouldered silhouettes and Big Chic Catherine Walker gown shapes)
This dress looks like it was based roughly on a Murray Arbeid she wore to a gala a few weeks prior and the pale blue chiffon Catherine Walker. She actually wore this white dress to the factual version of this event
(Wish she had the muff)
CHEERIO
Mid-80s houndstooth mania (plus a cool suit from 1990–I’m not sure she would have worn such an outre skirt suit as the one she wears on the show during the 80s!)
Okay the Phantom of the Opera thing.....did not happen, but that dress is accurate! And also, she really did love Phantom of the Opera.... she saw it in 1987 wearing one of her best outfits ever
The famous one-shouldered Catherine Walker from 1991—much later than it’s shown here, about 1987
Important moments in beige (the pants and boots are a personal favorite)
Speaking of QUIRKY KNITS!!!!!
More Catherine Walker!!!
You might think: the famous Catherine Walker ELVIS DRESS!!!! But in fact it seems more like the Victor Edelstein silk dress she wore a year before (Edelstein also did the Travolta dress)
A bit *too* trying to be Jackie O, which she didn’t do until a few years later, especially once she linked up with Gianni Versace (this suit isn’t Versace, to be clear)
Bit of a funky coat for her... she did like this color combination... but again, early 90s, not late 80s when she was still trying to make her marriage work. But while I have you, one of my favorite coats, from Christmas 1981
A little too flouncy and mini for her pre-divorce days but that’s just me!
Hello tartan my old friend
GRUMPY IN JEANS
Aaaaand the Catherine Walker tux dress (with striped lapels, in black silk instead of green velvet, and worn at Christmas instead of in Vanity Fair)
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