By Jove, Princess Kate Buys An Off The Rack Dress For Only $6,000!

Princess Kate in a dress that cost only $6,000? (image left) Ingenious, according to the press, which recently lauded Princess Kate for wearing such a dress. Six thousand dollars. Only. Even more impressive, according to the headlines, the dress was bought off the rack. Mon Dieu! Not to begrudge those with wealth—let us be sure to preface this by saying that wealth is not bad or evil—you have it, it’s yours, and “carry on” as the Brits would say, although one must dare wonder just a teeny-weeny bit how much of that dress is technically taxpayer subsidized. But, it’s all relative anyway—six thousand dollars to her is akin to six dollars for many of us.

But the more things change, the more they stay the same. Circle all the way back to the August 1989 issue of Royalty magazine where it’s noted that Princess of Wales Diana wore the same dress three times, with fans likely noticing. Three times. By Jove, the tragedy of it! In 1983 the dress appeared at the Wales’ Australian tour. In 1985 it appeared at the James Bond film premiere of “A View to A Kill,” and appeared yet again at the 1989 premiere of the James Bond film “Licence to Kill.” (image right)

So when you’re queasy about saving some money and wearing the same expensive dress two or three times—queasy because pictures of you at different events in the same dress might end up on Facebook (oh my!), just drop that commoner mindset of yours and think of the money-saving strategies of Kate and Diana of buying off the rack, then implementing the strategy of wash, rinse, and repeat. That expensive bridesmaid dress you had to buy? You will DEFINITELY wear it again, right? Of COURSE you will! We wonder if Pippa will wear hers again. Most assuredly she will.