Her Majesty has been photographed wearing pants in public fewer than 10 times in the last 70 years, and each time it caused a media sensation. It may seem that she hated this garment but it’s not at all true. Here is what we know about the Queen’s style preferences when it comes to trousers.
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‘She wears them all the time!’
Bethan Holt, a fashion journalist who has written the upcoming book ‘The Queen: 70 Years of Majestic Style’, debunked some common style misconceptions that surround the Queen. He suggested that she used to wear ‘trousers and a nice knitted jumper or something very functional’.
He said the ‘Royally Obsessed’ podcast, that after the Queen had once worn trousers, it attracted so much media attention that the tailor who made them was interviewed.
And, quite unexpectedly, the tailor said:
Well, this is crazy that everyone is getting excited about the Queen wearing trousers because I have actually made many pairs of trousers for her and she wears them all the time!
So the Queen was, indeed, no stranger to trousers. While seeing her wear them in public might have caused a furore, they were a central part of her private wardrobe.
Never seen wearing jeans
As we’ve now established that the Queen did wear pants, what about jeans? Our comfy favourites and the most popular pants of modern times?
Almost all the Queen’s clothes, including trousers, were custom-made and have gone through a long process of planning and fitting. She wasn’t exactly shopping like us and seemed to prefer slow fashion, unlike the young royals.
One of the most open-minded yet conservative monarchs never seemed to warm up to jeans, and to be honest, we can’t imagine her wearing them in private either. Almost all the members of the royal family, including Prince Phillip, were spotted wearing this popular kind of pants at some point, but the Queen wasn’t the one to wear denim.
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