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She’s almost certainly one of the world’s most sought-after muses when it comes to designer fashion, but – despite a seemingly endless list of major names queueing up to dress her – the Duchess of Cambridge tends to stick to a specific set of tried-and-tested looks.
Sure, she’ll often opt for something brand new, and a smorgasbord of fashion critics from all over the world will spend the next twenty four hours zooming in on every image to soak up every ounce of the inch-perfect look. But what you may not know is that our Kate is actually a huge fan of the once entirely uncool art of outfit repeating. Gasp.
Yes, the Duchess of Cambridge is so fond of some of her looks that she sees no shame in wearing it again. And again, and again, in some cases.
You may be rolling your eyes right now, wondering what’s the story here. If Kate’s being dubbed some sustainable saint for wearing a dress more than once, then we’re surely all up there?
But we’re not talking about her at-home clothes – we’d like to presume she’s been rewearing the same pair of joggers for days on end during lockdown like the rest of us – and rather her statement-making, photographed-from-every-angle, front-of-global-newspaper outfits. How many of those major fashion moments, analysed by the world’s most intense press, would *you* be comfortable to recycle?
The Duchess’s attitude to rewearing clothes should be a lesson to all of us. Don’t want to wear that dress to a friend’s birthday dinner (should we ever be allowed out again) because you posted an Instagram picture wearing it a couple of months ago? We all need to acknowledge how little we care when our friends recycle outfits, and how much we damage our planet when we continue to buy clothes to wear just once.
The Duchess has worn and reworn over 50 of her most show-stopping outfits, but scroll down for our pick of our 13 favourite recycled looks…