Sometimes she shakes things up between repeats...
Trooping the Colour, 1980
35 years later: Ascot 2015
...and sometimes you wish she wouldn't, because a hat change like this is not necessarily for the better. (Not to worry, she still has the original hat - she wore the ensemble to Ascot in 2011).It's kind of remarkable that she's sometimes better off sticking with the original, actually. She has her own brand of stylishness in a certain way.
1983
29 years later: Christmas 2012
I would argue that Russian Winter Princess is a look for the ages, for example.Then again...
Wedding of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, 1981
27 years later: Wedding of Lady Rose Windsor and George Gilman, 2008
...some things are best left to fester in the decade whence they came.There's a sneakiness to this sartorial strategy, though, because even when she pulls a real clunker out of storage, she still comes out ahead. I mean, we're still talking about the fact that she can fit in decades-old clothes, aren't we? Anne always wins.
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