The Queen always looks EXTREMELY APPROPRIATE. She is not supposed to be a fashion plate, but one thing I have noticed over the years is that all her clothes are superbly cut and tailored, they always fit her perfectly. No detail is left to chance. She is a gracious and stately lady, and maintains a pretty amazing schedule, especially for somebody in her mid-70's.
I'm a little bummed out by what Laura is wearing. Brown, brown, brown! Brown tweed dress at No 10 and at the abbey; brown lace at the American ambassador's dinner! Few women wear brown really well, and I do not think Mrs. Bush is one of them. She is such a lovely lady, why is she hiding herself under all that brown?
The burgundy dress with the velvet top at the State Dinner was a GREAT color for her, only spoiled by the wierd-looking white gloves, which looked like an afterthought -- since they did not appear to fit either under or over her dress. She needed to have shorter sleeves (or fuller) for gloves to look right. I wondered if perhaps she had not been warned that protocol required gloves, and they were acquired after the dress had already been chosen. I notice that she was not wearing gloves at the American ambassador's dinner, although the Queen was.
***I notice that she was not wearing gloves at the American ambassador's dinner, although the Queen was.***
Well, it's like this. The Ambassador's dinner was not white tie and tails, so it's not actually REALLY formal. It's permissible to wear long gloves to it as the Queen did. But it's mandatory to wear long white gloves to a formal, white tie and tails dinner. (At least if you're visiting the Queen of England.)
So Laura gets good marks.
Of course you realize that I've never even been in the same room with a man with white tie and tails. (Oh, wait a minute...once when I was a kid, my doctor showed up in my room wearing white tie and tails. I thought he was Fred Astaire.)