She amazed her people with her unique appearance
Bright colors have printed Elizabeth's looks for decades
The Queen's clothes sometimes serve as a means of communicating certain messages to her people.
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Elizabeth always preferred to wear hats, which she rarely goes out without.
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The late Queen Elizabeth II appeared over time with a unique appearance that reflected a personal style she chose for herself to match her position. She wore brightly colored suits, hats to coordinate with her clothes, and neat gloves.
During the seventy years she ruled the United Kingdom, the Queen adopted all shades of colors in her looks, from bright yellow to filo green, fuchsia and royal blue.
Her grandson Harry believes that her look was "amazing and perfect", whatever color she adopted.
Fashion designers and fashion consultants who worked for the Queen developed her unique style over time, including Norman Hartnell, who designed her wedding dress, using silk as a fabric, embroidered with 10,000 pearl beads and studded with crystals.
Not an easy task
Hartnell also designed the silk dress she wore to her inauguration in 1953, and Hartnell explained that the design was inspired by "the sky, the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars, and anything that could be embroidered on a dress would be historic."
"Designing the Queen's clothes is no easy task," said Hardy Eames, the Queen's officially approved designer from 1955 to 1990 who designed the floral dress she wore during the Silver Jubilee celebration of her accession to the throne in 1977.
For more than two decades, Angela Kelly has ensured that the Queen's looks are always perfect, and the Englishman, who comes from a humble family in Liverpool, joined the Queen Elizabeth II fashion team in 1993, and became her own coordinator in 2002.
Obeying the rules of etiquette
During the quarantine period that was imposed as a result of the spread of the “Covid-19” epidemic, Kelly herself cut the Queen’s hair, as she recounts in a book that Buckingham Palace authorized to publish, and although the Queen was a loyal customer, coordinating her looks was not an easy task, because the royal dress It is subject to certain rules and members of the royal family should beware of any wrong move in this regard.
"There are no written rules of dress, but costumes should be subject to etiquette and protocol," Grant Harold, a former butler to the royal family, told AFP. Her nails were red, but she only wore pantyhose similar to the color of the skin, and the nail polish should be a very light pink because it is more elegant.
Modest Skirts
Harold pointed out that the Queen's clothing collection "never contained any short skirts beyond the knee," while the Queen adorned her looks with jewelry that consisted of a brooch pin or a pearl necklace, preferably of three layers.
Although the Queen maintained old traditions such as wearing hats that she rarely went out without, some of her habits, such as wearing gloves in summer and winter, had a "practical" aspect, as Harold noted.
He said that the queen was wearing gloves "to make sure not to pick up any germs or the virus responsible for the common cold" when shaking hands with others.
And her choice of the colors of her clothes was the most prominent characteristic of her style, and made it easy to distinguish among the crowd, because her height was one meter and 63 centimeters.
Caroline de Ghetto, curator of an exhibition dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II, noted in a 2016 interview that "the Queen is known for her brightly colored costumes, which are meant to be easily distinguished from the crowd during important occasions."
On weekends in one of her country houses, the Queen would drop the hat and opt for a simple sash and Scotch-leather, while during her official engagements she wore a one-color look from head to toe.
And the designer of clothes for the series "The Crown", Michel Clapton, considered that the Queen's clothes on these occasions were a "formal uniform".
In an interview with Vogue magazine in 2016, she noted that "the Queen may be in the garden with her dogs, and then appear moments later wearing a suit and a hat and gloves."
And the Queen's clothes were sometimes a means of communicating messages. During official visits, for example, she would put a pin in the form of the transport plant adopted in Ireland as a symbol or another that takes the form of the Canadian maple leaf, as a way to honor the hosts.
It was rumored that she always carried the "Loner" bag, which she owned more than 200 copies, in order to send secret signals to her team.
To work for the Queen, secrecy was necessary, which Rigby & Blair, a company specializing in the manufacture of high-end bras, did not abide by, as it lost its job as the Queen's official supplier as a result of revealing details of her bra.
In 2018, Elizabeth II attended the London Fashion Week for the first time.
On this occasion, she presented the first "Elizabeth II Award for Fashion", a reward that has been awarded annually to a new talent in this field.
For this occasion, the Queen wore a light blue tweed suit, and sat next to fashion star Anna Wintour.
Her grandson Harry says her look was "amazing and perfect", no matter what color she used.
The Queen's clothing collection "never contained any short skirts above the knee".
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