The future royal wore a trouser suit for her first official evening engagement with Prince Harry, ushering in a new kind of sartorial diplomacy<\/p>\n
Last night, for her first official evening engagement with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle wore an Alexander McQueen trouser suit. It was slim-fitting, with cropped cigarette trousers, worn with very high stiletto heels and a cream dishabille blouse. The outfit was many things: extremely Saint Laurent’s Le Smoking<\/a>, a bit Princess Diana<\/a>, with a soupcon of Marlene Dietrich, even a indication of Carine Roitfeld( although Roitfeld probably wouldn’t have worn a blouse underneath the tux<\/a> ). What it was not was a Sandringham-appropriate boxy Catherine Walker skirt suit. It was notable because it didn’t feel like standard royal family dressing at all. <\/p>\n The royal family wrote the rule book on sartorial diplomacy. Generally, their approaching is unambiguous. It is a gown decorated with 2,091 shamrocks in Ireland<\/a>; a Chanel tweed coat in Paris in the middle of Brexit<\/a>; a dress by Polish decorator Gosia Baczynska at a garden party in Warsaw<\/a>. It is the opposite of wearing a cult band T-shirt that only fellow followers will recognise. The clothes are designed to speak of decency and propriety; the visual messages are clear enough to charm heads of state and reach the rest of us in the cheap seats as well.<\/p>\n
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