[MamaB]

Usually, I am not too impressed with what the Queen wears but that dress and jewelry was something to see. Laura had a gorgeous necklace on, too.

[EdJay]

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.