2013

Programming Note: Holiday Hiatus!

Happy holidays, my dears! The blog is on hiatus until the new year.

Year in Review: 2013's Honorable Mentions (...and Some Worsts)

We tackled the bests from the roster of royal women usually featured here, but they weren't the only ones accomplishing feats of sartori...

Year in Review: 2013's Bests From Our Regulars

We have a handful of leading ladies around here that we follow regularly, and now it's time to reminisce about the best they looked this...

Year in Review: 2013's Royal Brides

As we continue to wrap up 2013's sartorial happenings, a look back at the lovely royal (and royal-adjacent, etc.) brides we covered here...

Year in Review: 2013's Happenings

It's time to start wrapping up the year! (Yes! Already. ) Let's begin with a glance back at some of the big royal events of the year...

Wedding Wednesday (on a Friday): December Brides

Let me sneak this in here since we had a Nobel Wednesday - the last in our series of monthly bride reviews! And just a short list to take us...

Tiara Thursday: The Japanese Crown Princess Scroll Tiara

The Japanese Crown Princess Scroll Tiara The Japanese tiara best known today as the diadem worn by Masako Owada during the events surroundin...

Tiara Watch: The Nobel Prizes, 2013

The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm is one of the most glittering occasions of the year - usually. This year was a bit sparse, thoug...

Weekly Royal Fashion Awards: December 4-9

Hmm. The Duchess of Cambridge Video: William and Kate attend the London premiere of "Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom" Look, I f...

Readers' Ultimate Tiara Collection: The End

It's been a yearlong tiara voting extravaganza, and now it's time to bring it to a close. Inspired by multiple reader requests for f...

Tiara Thursday: The Duchess of Windsor's Emerald Bead Tiara

I’ve received quite a few questions over time about the Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Simpson, 1896-1986) and tiaras. Though we might not immed...

Weekly Royal Fashion Awards: November 20-December 3

Most Improved Queen Máxima Visiting Colombia and Venezuela; returning home for more engagements including celebrating the 200th anniversary ...

Readers' Ultimate Tiaras: Your Last Vote Winners!

For the final vote in our little tiara fest , I asked you to pick three tiaras the ultimate collection couldn't live without. The result...

Flashback Friday: A Video Treat, Plus a Programming Note

Next week is a holiday week in my part of the world (Happy Thanksgiving, American readers!), and I'm making it a holiday week for the bl...

Tiara Thursday: The Rosenborg Kokoshnik

The Rosenborg Kokoshnik Tiara Designed in the shape inspired by traditional Russian kokoshnik headdresses , this tiara features a swagged ga...

Weekly Royal Fashion Awards: November 12-19, Plus More Stuff

Best in Regular Stuff Crown Princess Victoria Mathilde at a couple palace events and visiting a hospital; Kate out and about at a charity; M...

Royal Trip Report: Denmark and Spain in North America

Everybody is everywhere right now - your typical November surge in events, just before the holidays. Today's installment of Traveling wi...

Readers' Ultimate Tiara Collection: The Last Vote

We've been voting on different categories of tiaras all year - broad groups, ones commonly seen in today's grand tiara collections -...

Tiara Thursday: Crown Princess Victoria's 18th Birthday Tiara

Crown Princess Victoria's 18th Birthday Tiara By now, we’ve seen Crown Princess Victoria in a wide array of Swedish tiaras, but she star...

Wedding Wednesday: Victoria at Royal Weddings

Since we're inching closer to the sparklefest of the Nobel Prizes in Sweden in December, and since I'm still thinking about Crown Pr...

The Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor