There is a time and a place for a ‘Marilyn moment’. But it’s certainly not when you’re a member of the Royal Family trying to look dignified in front of the assembled media.
The Duchess of Cambridge made headlines for all the wrong reasons this week when a rogue gust of wind blew up her pleated skirt as she arrived at a children’s charity event. It is not the first time the Duchess’s hemlines have caused her trouble. It happened twice on her first official visit to Canada, where she all but flashed a glimpse of her underwear at Calgary airport after her Jenny Packham dress made a bid for freedom.
This year, a flimsy polkadot Topshop dress — a maternity favourite — seemed determined to embarrass the pregnant Duchess at every opportunity, flashing her shapely legs to the world when she wore it on a tour of the Warner Brothers Studios in Hertfordshire, and again a few weeks later at the wedding of her friend William van Cutsem.
According to professional dressmaker Christina Koutsavakis: ‘Short, full skirts are more likely to catch the wind, like a parachute does. And a pleated one has such a lot of material in it.’
‘A pencil skirt is practically wind-proof — gusts just can’t get underneath it — or she could just try a longer, heavier skirt,’ suggests Christina.
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