Kate Middleton to wear ‘traditional wedding dress with a modern twist’

Via exposay.com

Kate Middleton’s wedding dress will be a demure, high necked, hand embroidered, lace couture gown, a bridal expert predicted today.
Peta Hunt, fashion director at You & Your Wedding magazine, suggested the new royal bride would opt for something traditional, but with a modern twist.

“I can’t see it will be covered in Swarovski crystals. I reckon it will be hand embroidered and I reckon with lace,” Hunt said.

“She must have some sort of crown or tiara. I would imagine shoulders would be covered at some stage.

“I reckon a high neck would look fantastic. It’s quite refined and could be quite stylish.”
She also suggested the royal bride would pick a fishtail style gown, rather than a large full skirt.

“I would say a fishtail, not in a sex goddess way, but straighter at the front.”

Hunt added: “I reckon she plays down everything,”

But she said the bridal gown – which is expected to be couture rather than off the peg – would have to suit the venue.

“The dress would have to be a lot grander than most of the dresses we see in real life.”

“She’s got a fantastic figure so in a way she can carry off most dresses, she added.

Hunt predicted Kate, who is always seen with her hair down, would wear her hair up on this occasion, possibly in a low chignon, to “show off all those jewels”.

Britain’s fashion industry will be hoping Kate will glide the flag for the UK and pick a homegrown talent to work on her dress.

Hunt tipped designers Bruce Oldfield and Phillipa Lepley as the favourites.

Diana, Princess of Wales’s billowing ivory pure silk taffeta gown, prevented brides from being stylish for too long, Hunt said.

“It took us years to get over that dress. Year after year people looked back on it and said they wanted it.

“For years people were wearing versions of Diana’s dress. It should have been celebrated at the moment and then left.

“With Kate, we want to have went on within five years.”

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