Princess Kate was praised by a fashion expert for making key changes to outfit for latest appearance.
The Princess of Wales has been hailed by a fashion expert for her style choices at Trooping the Colour 2024, which were labelled a “masterclass in sustainable fashion”.

Princess Kate turned heads in her first public appearance since last December, wearing a stunning monochrome look – which she mostly recycled.

The future Queen donned a recycled Jenny Packham dress she’s worn on various occasions in 2023, which she paired with a colour-matching OC 155 hat by Philip Treacy, Mulberry’s East West Bayswater Clutch (£650) and Jimmy Choo’s Romy 85 leather pumps in white (£650).

Kate, who is Colonel of the Irish Guards, completed the look with a pair of pearl stud earrings by Cassandra Goad (£5,620), while she also donned the Regimental Irish Guards Brooch.

Now a fashion expert praised the princess and said her look “was not just an elegant homage to homegrown British brands but a masterclass in sustainable fashion”.

Princess Kate looked sensational at Trooping the Colour

The Mail’s Junior Fashion Editor, Alice Hare, explained the key changes Kate made to the dress: “Kate’s dress is a reworked version of the dress she wore to a coronation lunch at Buckingham Palace last year. (She owns the same dress in navy and black, too).

“The belt has been modified and a statement bow added to the neckline.”

Apart from the striking hat which was new, the Princess of Wales seems to have reworn items she’s worn before, including her earrings, which she first wore to Prince Louis’ christening in 2018, her clutch which has been in her wardrobe for years, as well as her heels that she’s worn on multiple occasions.

Ms Hare opined that despite Kate recycling an old dress, “the look seemed anything but ‘seen that before’.

Princess Kate rewore a Jenny Packman dress (Image: Getty)

She added: “It helps to have a new Philip Treacy hat, of course, but it’s the clever addition of the bow and the modified belt that are largely responsible for transforming a seemingly corporate pencil dress into a showstopping occasion piece.

“An Irish Guards’ regimental brooch provided an appropriate military note that acknowledged Kate’s role as Colonel of the Regiment.”

Royal fans seemed to have loved the royal’s look, with several comparing it to Audrey Hepburn’s iconic black and white dress in the film My Fair Lady.

It comes as searches for “Jenny Packham dress” exploded by more than 4,000 percent worldwide after Kate’s appearance on Saturday.

New research, conducted by artisan fashion brand LIIEVE, revealed that searches for the dress skyrocketed to over 44 times their average volume on June 15, seeing a 4,247 percent increase, an “unprecedented increase in searches for dresses by designer Jenny Packham”, according to the search data analysis.