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
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)
More crust!!! Reminds me of the Emanuel blouse Lord Snowden photographed her in for British Vogue in 1981
THE ACCURACY (plus one of my five favorite photos of Di ever, from over a decade later, just for fun)
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
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
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
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