What would you wear to a Buckingham Palace Garden Party?

[matriarch]

Following on from the Cucumber sandwiches, sex and gardens thread, this one came to mind after the mention of Royal Garden parties.

If we're attending the Queen's Garden Party at Bucking Palace, you have to decide what you are going to wear. You can't go in just anything, you know.

Prince Charles and the other Royal gents, if attending, would wear a traditional morning suit (I know it's 4 in the afternoon, don't be pedantic. This is England. We're different.), and unless you are a member of the armed forces, and invited in that capacity (thereby wearing dress uniform), most other menfolk would wear normal lounge suits. There are, of course, always exceptions.

http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/gallery-year/images/2005/050719_gardenparty/050719_gardenparty_01.jpg

http://www.centraleast-atc.org.uk/photos/main%20photos/news_garden_party.jpg


http://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/www_server/Proctor/Proctor2000-2001/BuckPalaceA.jpg

http://www.stosyth.gov.uk/images/editor/BuckinghamPalaceVisit.jpeg


But the ladies................let your imagination run riot.

 

[oggbashan]

I have attended three Royal Garden Parties:


In Boy Scout uniform, with shorts, knobbly knees, a Mountie Hat, carrying a six-foot Scout stave and wearing both a 10 inch sheath knife and a 24 inch machete on my belt.

I was one of the car park attendants for each event. I opened the doors for the guests to get out and helped to direct traffic. A six-foot stave is a useful pointer.

After the guests had arrived and departed, I and the other Boy Scouts had tea in Buckingham Palace - in the Servants' Hall, of course...

I doubt I would be allowed to carry the stave and as for the sheath knife and machete? I'd be arrested as a potential terrorist.

Og

PS. Now? I'd wear my Morning Suit with my chain as Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce.

 

[arienette]

I have attended three Royal Garden Parties:


In Boy Scout uniform, with shorts, knobbly knees, a Mountie Hat, carrying a six-foot Scout stave and wearing both a 10 inch sheath knife and a 24 inch machete on my belt.

I was one of the car park attendants for each event. I opened the doors for the guests to get out and helped to direct traffic. A six-foot stave is a useful pointer.

After the guests had arrived and departed, I and the other Boy Scouts had tea in Buckingham Palace - in the Servants' Hall, of course...

I doubt I would be allowed to carry the stave and as for the sheath knife and machete? I'd be arrested as a potential terrorist.

Og

PS. Now? I'd wear my Morning Suit with my chain as Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce.

Did you get pictures? Please tell me you got pictures. I want to see the mountie hat.

 

[oggbashan]

Did you get pictures? Please tell me you got pictures. I want to see the mountie hat.

I regret that your request must be denied:

1. Such pictures are unaesthetic

2. They could identify me and be used in evidence at my trial.

Og

 

[matriarch]

I have attended three Royal Garden Parties:


In Boy Scout uniform, with shorts, knobbly knees, a Mountie Hat, carrying a six-foot Scout stave and wearing both a 10 inch sheath knife and a 24 inch machete on my belt.

I was one of the car park attendants for each event. I opened the doors for the guests to get out and helped to direct traffic. A six-foot stave is a useful pointer.

After the guests had arrived and departed, I and the other Boy Scouts had tea in Buckingham Palace - in the Servants' Hall, of course...

I doubt I would be allowed to carry the stave and as for the sheath knife and machete? I'd be arrested as a potential terrorist.

Og

PS. Now? I'd wear my Morning Suit with my chain as Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce.

And very smart you'd look too.

Me? Several options come to mind, and not one of them involves wearing a dress or skirt of any kind. *shudder*.

This maybe...
http://www.wilsdom.com/store/media/ap-caftan2003p.jpg

or this....
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/shukr/WGP-wB1601.jpg

or this, style, not colour. I'm a black/white/slate grey kind of person.
http://www.tk-designs.com/images/tk802amd.jpg

 

[arienette]

I regret that your request must be denied:

1. Such pictures are unaesthetic

2. They could identify me and be used in evidence at my trial.

Og

...Damn.
I guess I have to go get my own mountie hat, invite you over, put it on and then take some pictures.

 

[McKenna]

I'm thinking something like this:

http://recollections.biz/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/web60731-2.jpg http://recollections.biz/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/web60731-2alt1.jpg

(Are sleeveless dresses allowed?!)


And this hat:

http://www.fantasycostume.net/fantasy/images/Hats/hatthumbs/hat1890_1402-t.jpg

 

[arienette]

And very smart you'd look too.

Me? Several options come to mind, and not one of them involves wearing a dress or skirt of any kind. *shudder*.

This maybe...
http://www.wilsdom.com/store/media/ap-caftan2003p.jpg

or this....
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/shukr/WGP-wB1601.jpg

or this, style, not colour. I'm a black/white/slate grey kind of person.
http://www.tk-designs.com/images/tk802amd.jpg

I'm really loving the first picture there. It looks comfy!

 

[JRaven]

Allowing the probability of me being invited to a Buckingham Palace Garden party to dictate what I wear, I'd have to say 'nude'. Afterall, the chances are 0.

Somewhat more seriously, probably about what was depicted in your pics. Although the skirt length would certainly be shorter. Too damn hot to think of a long skirt right now.

Jenny

 

[scheherazade_79]

This! This! Definitely this!

Look!

This is me at the garden party on acid

 

[arienette]

This! This! Definitely this!

Look!

This is me at the garden party on acid

That's an American Girl doll!

 

[scheherazade_79]

That's an American Girl doll!

I know, but I'd look way better in it than she does - the bitch...

 

[oggbashan]

Hats

I won't post a picture of me in a Mountie hat but this is my cousin and I wearing two of my hats.

I'm wearing the Fez.

Og

 

[McKenna]

This! This! Definitely this!

Look!

This is me at the garden party on acid

I think black fishnet stockings would complete the outfit, don't you?

 

[matriarch]

Loving the ideas.
Scheh........I DARE you !!

You won't see me in a hat. At least not a 'posh' hat. I do have a straw cowboy hat I bought a few weeks ago.........Gosling says I look 'fucking cute' in it. I don't think she had her specs on, or contacts in.

I didn't even do the traditional thing for my eldest's wedding. Mother of the groom and all that. I didn't wear a hat, and I had an outfit made in a Bangladesh clothing store. I went in, chose my material, told them the style I wanted (Nehru neck, just past the knee length, long side slits, 3/4 sleeves, over a pair of very loose, baggy pants), they measured me (not telling), and then sent it to me a week later. Ridiculous price of around $40, for everything. I wasn't happy with the neck, so I went back and showed them exactly what I wanted. They made another top for around $12. Amazing value for money.

And it was a hit. I got strange looks from the rest of the wedding party, especially the bride's mother. But my boys loved it, so I didn't care.

 

[minsue]

Hmmm....too much?

http://pyramidcollection.com/prodimagesC/P9648C.jpg

 

[Tom Collins]

Oh, Yes, they call her "The Streak"...*makes noise of someone whizzing past at high volocity*

 

[AthenasFury]

I like the pirate breeches and loose cotton pirate shirt look. How scandalous would that be?

 

[vampiredust]

I'd probably go naked. I saw a bunch of people dressed in suits and ridiculous hats queing outside Buckingham Palace today as I was going home. She was probably having a garden party. Wanted to moon them but there were tons of police about.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

A cloak of invisibility.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[R. Richard]

Well, I don't know too much about protocol, but I would just wear a gardener's outfit to a garden party.

 

[Guest]

a playboy bunny costume ala bridget jones
vicar and tarts party anyone?

 

[rgraham666]

Like I'm going to be invited to Buckingham Palace.

 

[yui]

a playboy bunny costume ala bridget jones
vicar and tarts party anyone?

k. I've ears. And fishnet hose. <nods> I was thinking a leather mini and Doc Martens, but I like your idea better.

 

[3113]

Like I'm going to be invited to Buckingham Palace.

You never know! Picture this senario....You're walking down the street....suddenly, you see a dog. A corgis. "Help! Stop that dog!" someone shouts. The dog is heading right in front of a car! You dash out and save the dog!

It turns out to be none other than one of Queen Elizabeth II's dogs that she's brought with her on a royal visit to Canada!

And so, you are invited to Buckingham Palace to receive formal thanks from her Majesty.

Wha? It could happen.