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.