10 Fashion Tricks Princess Diana Used to Make Old Clothes Look New Again 

I totally agree. Small shoulder pads not only looked sophisticated, but felt so glamorous too. That was sure a fashion era. Today, the more trashy you look the more fashionable. That’s why fashion no longer interests me.

i don't feel like shoulder pads are that out of style these days, just a few months ago, when i was part-timing in a clothes store (fast fashion, so all the "new and trendy" styles) and there were quite a bit of blouses and jackets with shoulder pads. a lot of old styles are quite in fashion right now it seems

It was Diana that originally wore those styles, loved them & they're classic

Always on yachts saving money. People like that don't save money they never had to.

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I like the way women wore their clothes in the 50s and 60s they always look so elegant gloves hats now we see people going to the store in pajamas it’s disgusting their pants hanging off their butts dropping to the floor. We’ve gone backwards in maintaining an elegant style, I think we’ve all gotten lazy I would prefer to wear the hats and gloves again especially since Covid who wants to shake somebody’s hand with their bare hands

Well said💛

Absolutely right. The commentary is so bad in this video. No understanding of fashion at all. Phooey!

that's what I was thinking, too. :D

But, she will always be remembered as young..! While Charles will become (is becoming) old and decrepit..!

@@miachambers830 yep, and with Camilla by his side looking as if she is in fact his granny!

@@patriciasanches9545 please,stop it,You're poisoned person,.

@@liananarubina-knappe2349 what's wrong with telling the truth? Or are you Camilla using an alias? You must be blind! 😝

So am I and I think it's why Harry has problems.

Get a grip. She wore too many horrors

Looked like home made dressmaking.

@@misst.e.a.187 but Ioved most of them..😍

@@misscoutts6193 but still beautiful..😍

I Recycle my old cloths all the time, Some times I zipper my jackets , sometimes I don’t, I even shop for gently used clothes at consignment shop, and I’m NOT a celebrity. LOL.

@@normahuesmann3794 Actually, the point is: ordinary people do thus all the time, but royalty and other celebrities don’t, usually.

@@susanpayer3472 you're joking, right? The Queen recycles, as do Princess Anne, Sophie, and Catherine. They recycle baby clothes as well.

It has more meaning for the UK tax payer who pay into the civil list(salary for certain members of the royal family ,it's been reduced ,the Queen doesn't get the huge amount she did in the past)as Diana wanted to show responsibility

@@susanpayer3472 I think they do & always plan to do so - often with the designers help. In a documentary with Diana, she was meeting with a designer about clothes for a trip to the Middle East. They talk about creating gowns with long sleeves for the trip and then removing the sleeves once back in England. The only thing that surprises me about this video is someone taking all this time to comb through 1000's of photos looking for something so ordinary.

@Otrebor Fashion scene, if only they had listened and had the car rechecked. It was in the shop, 3 days prior. Damn Charles, for paying everyone off. It’s absolutely incredible. 😢

She grew up around the RF and her family are in fact more royal than they are.

@@misst.e.a.187 There is no such thing as more royal. Either you are royalty, nobility or gentry or not....and then there are commoners. Diana was part of the nobility. There is such a thing as aristocratic hierarchy and that is why there are titles and proper styling of aristocrats. It is all about who bows to who and what kind of address should be used properly to each aristocrats.

. plus she was extremely photogenic.

You're right, I made a lot of her clothing because I loved her style (I couldn't afford her clothing). I even still have the yellow and pink outfit she wore. The one with the pleated skirt and the suit type of jacket with the pink lapels. I loved that one. and I still have (but can't fit into anymore) the peter pan white shirt she wore. they had it at a store called laura ashley but it was 100 bucks at the time, so I just made one instead. :)

@@tarialorehand I did a ton of sewing back then, too! Loved Diana's looks and followed her closely. Still miss her.

Like the way Diana & Kate both revamp their outfits instead of tossing aside.

I think whatever clothes the narrator is wearing now will become ‘dated’. She would probable criticize Martha Washington for her long dresses!

It is ironic - 2000's styles are very dated in my opinion ,and 80's a little more modern/trend (such as Vladiyan royal wedding dress) . But the few 80's styles such as strapless I'm not fond of they don't seem to let go of - albeit it's presented less tastefully with each era it comes back into. They would have had it sitting very well in the 50's , with a shawl,for evening wear. The wedding dress trend of the 2000's was just there /bottom heavy ,and is old now. Not fitting the definition of classical - suited to a time ,place or occassion (during a ceremony where you don't want to stare at the chest, during the day) ,or modern - streamlined/functionalist (not comfortably functional for winter/colder weather , wouldn't be worn in cool evening in contrast to classic. Bottom extreme,bloomer girl reminiscent). It is interesting that said generation considers themselves experts on dated, modern and trendy isn't it?

No, she wasn't. She had no idea about clothes in her earlier days

What about the window cleaner outfit, white t shirt and baseball cap. Short cropped hair looked like a 👞man.

Always in polka dots and big blue & white stripes. No one wears that. More like circus 🎪 clown! Remember the Quality Street outfit?

Catherine just wore polka dots to Royal Ascot. Looked timeless.

Me too!

Shoulder pads-o-rama!

I miss the 70s and look at the styles way back then

Yes! And its Can! Not Cans lady!

@@tinawelch5524 thank you! Girl reading this or bot or w/e or whoever wrote this, was just more classless than an empty school bldg.

Exactly ! I find it so interesting that the myth of her being a middleclass girl still survives.

@@CrownedOne919 It's all about content preparation and research. It drives me crazy that words like Cannes, Derby, voluminous and Epsom are mangled [ Cahhnn, DARbee, vuhLOO menus, EPsum]. I've heard the same narrator on other videos and really feel this is part of the research preparation required to put out this type of content. I'm not at all advocating that an English or "British" accent (what is that, anyway?) be affected, but Americans would be so put off by pronunciation of Oregon as OrryGONE, Maryland as Mary-Land to rhyme with Disneyland or aluminium instead of aluminum.] It also bothers me when trends like polka dots are dismissed out of hand when in 2021- 2023 I've seen no fewer than THREE versions of the coffee/cream polka dot dress from the polo scene in Pretty Woman for sale. Dissing the 80s when you are praising an 80s/90s icon whom you admit still has fashion relevance is bonkers and makes the author look a little jejune and arrogant. Sorry. Been bottling this up.

Additionally the royal family , especially in 20th century and now, don't like to wear things once and toss. They want to look like they are not spending taxpayer money, etc. foolishly. Many of the clothes on the children, for example, are hand me down between siblings and even from parent to child, etc. Actually aristocracy and old money generally have those values. It's new money that is gauche by flaunting, wasting and being flashy only having new and not reusing.

Anne is practical, but not fashionable. She reuses old clothes, she had stayed the same size so she reuses them. Some were ugly the first time.

i know Im pretty off topic but do anyone know of a good website to watch newly released series online ?

@@ivankace3541 Google it

Not necessarily, she could have had bad taste, but she carried centuries of aristocracy in her blood., I think she would have looked groomed and elegant even wearing what the French call "Un sac à patates".

@@Bzcenci812 I still have not come ‘round to that vaunted ‘little black revenge dress.’

@@naturalPaths One thing for certain, Camilla did NOT look anywhere near as good in it as did Dianna!!! She was a fool for trying.

Even a baseball cap. Never see Queen Camilla in one.

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Right, and Camilla could wear Valentino, Lagerfeld, Chanel or whatever she wants, she stays the rottweiler she is!

No, some of her stuff I thought, even for the time, I didn't like, but, then, she had to dress like that to fit the rules.

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I have developed allergies to a lot of material - I can only wear cotton. I wish I could sew - but I really didn't like using a sewing machine in a family where my momma, little sister and Grandmother used an electric sewing machine and Nanny used a treadle machine back in the 1970s'. My folks even bought a pattern and fabric of my choice and I paid my little sister to make it! Momma made my wedding dress. I have found some cotton skirts with matching sweaters and I have about 8 blouses and some sweaters with multiple colors to coordinates. I have several pairs of jeans and some t-shirts. I have a small selection of shoes and sandals that work too. I pore over the internet for choices. Luckily I don't work anymore - I needed suits as a Sales Asst to a stock broker. I love Princess Diana's clothing - I used to think she was like a living Barbie!

@@amypagekaviani5661 I am so sorry about the allergies. It is so difficult to find pure cotton clothing now. I sewed partly out of necessity and, in the early years of my marriage, repurposed a lot of things others gave me. I had a sheath dress made from a cafe curtain my MIL gave me - it looked better on me than the window. Much more recently, our garden club requested we all wear hats at a spring meeting but with flowers. I had no flowered hat but found a flat sheet at a thrift store that was beautiful and made a sun hat. It was funny because I received so many compliments on it. One member said she used to have sheets like that - I told her it might be one of her sheets! Though I like buying new fabric, I also enjoyed the challenge of making over something else into something entirely different. Well into my marriage, I was able to buy a Viking 6030 sewing machine - anyone who has had one will tell you that was top of the line. That was 1974 and it is still going strong! There have been literally thousands of miles of thread go through that machine through the years. We all have our interests and talents. It's good I can sew because I cannot sing a bit, play a musical instrument, and cannot paint or even draw. Some times it takes a while to find our special talent but we all have them if we give it a chance. Frankly, buying clothes and compiling a good wardrobe is a huge talent itself. I loved the dresses, etc., that Carol Burnett wore on her variety show at the opening - so beautiful and so many different styles.

@@sharonchu7830 Thank you for the suggestion. I wear linen but it is pricey. I live in Virginia and need winter clothing too.

@@GlennaVan I used to think Carol Burnett was like a real life Barbie with all her pretty clothing at the beginning of her show!

@@amypagekaviani5661 She certainly had a lot of beautiful clothes! Often, I wished I could have sewn some like that but then where would I wear them?!! I absolutely loved Loretta Young's entrances in her shows, and Carol Burnett gave her real competition! Bob Mackie was a genius without compare.

She just rewears them. She isn’t the slightest bit interested in clothes. It’s amazing that she keeps them and can still get into them, even if they let them out slightly, very few people can wear at 70 what they wore at 25.

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I wish they can do that again !!

Petite Sophicate/Casual Corner made basic black, navy blue and gray suit sets. I went back 5 or even 10 years later and bought pants or a jacket to replace the worn out cloths or to up date the style. Like cuffed pants to non cuffed pants. The new pants or jacket would color match the old suit perfectly! Almost all the pants were lined too. 90% of my office cloths came from that store. Very nice well made cloths for a reasonable price. Also all the cloths were sized the same. My husband bought me many outfits for presents and they all fit perfect.

Yup, I had some. Crepe suits, skirt, jacket with shoulder pads, pants and one even had a long evening skirt to go with it. Ahhh...sighhh.

Up to today in the UK a suit for a woman can be either a skirt and jacket or jacket and trousers pants\knickers are worn underneath !trousers or skirt ,we don't refer to trousers as knickers

Love it!

Who cares about what Charles wears,lol.

Brilliant observation! 😂🤣😆

@@juliesprik9479 Who cares about Prince Charles in general lol

And nobody cares!

Changes ?? Changed

Anne actually wears clothes she’s had since the 1970s, she can still get into them! However, it’s fair to say while always appropriately dressed, she has never been a clothes horse, just a superb horsewoman.

I think the Queen wears the same outfit every day, they just dyed it a different shade.

True but it's more like a uniform rather something stylish.

I saw two pictures of her wearing an outfit in the 1970's and then either in the late 90's or sometime in the 2000's, and I don't know if she had it altered, but, it still fit!! I was really surprised, too.

Read up some more. She was royal.

@@Essemm52 in that case they are all from bastard lines.

@@mimIsra1 She was not royal.

Her family was older aristocratic british than the queens. Queen mum from old family but the George’s were German, queen vic

YES IT IS!!!

@Sandra Delvoie What a great story! Thanks for sharing it!

@@veroniquedebruin3723 Uneducated and insecure, but her actual intellectual abilities? Who knows? Her kids don't seem to be dumb, do they? Again, how would we ever know....

@@veroniquedebruin3723 She had qualities that were her own,,,,excellent dancer ,,,,looked fabulous in anything she wore,,,great people person,,,, lovely to look at,,,,excellent piano player,,,,,etc,,, Ah! Where are your talents?????

@@veroniquedebruin3723 the lbd on Charles interview eve would suggest quite the contrary.

@@veroniquedebruin3723 Not knowing geography and probably totally confused by her hectic itinerary is hard dumb as a rock.

And tall! Which always helps when wearing couture.

I miss her :(

Yes. She would have personally wipped or wiped out Me-again !

@@zahria I think she'd be pleased her son was happy, and not believe the media image...

extremely

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An aristocratic family that was wealthy and older and more noble than the Windsors! Diana mingled with royals from an early age on, her grandmother was a lady in waiting to the queen`s mother and to queen Elizabeth as well their friend and confidant.

That doesn't mean she had to be wasteful of decent designer clothes.

@@faithyoung441 you have missed my point. I am pointing out that some media and some youtube channels constantly erase her aristocratic upbring,

I remember that moment. So tragic. The same week, Mother Teresa died, so we lost two of the most famous and iconic women of that era at the same moment. Still love looking at pictures of Princess Diana and her amazing way of dressing.

Sorry, but that is not royalty, that is rank. The only royals are kings, queens, princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses. That's where royalty ends. Aristocracy is titled rank under dukes. So Diana was an aristocrat, not a royal. Nor was her father, the earl.

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I'm glad you pointed this out, ButEveryoneKnewHerAsNancy. The narrator's voice was also incredibly annoying, as well.

Actually, it's pronounced "Can".

Your first example is 3 syllables not 2. And the 2nd is 4 not 3.

@@mrsbluesky8415 Thanks! I corrected my reply. Great catch. ☺️

Yes plus loads of money!!!

The dresser doesn't design it. Paul burrel's wife was her dresser.

Fun Fact: Anyone who is not royal is a commoner.

She was not royal but she was born into aristocrat family not a commoner.

@@carolinedevorahstephen7435 I understand that she was an aristocrat, but the only people in the UK who are not commoners are Peers of the Realm (not their children) and the Sovereign.

Exactly!

You do !one fashion era i hated apart from grunge

@@carolewilson1311 I love grunge!

And work on pronunciation.