从童年时期的棉布裙,到加冕礼上的华丽王冠,伊丽莎白二世用服装记录了自己的一生,也塑造了一个时代的王室形象。
Hello, I'm Hamish Bowles and we're at Buckingham Palace, and I'm here to tell you my objects of affection drawn from Queen Elizabeth II's treasury of clothing.
Well, these three dresses by Smith & Co, they're made from liberty fabric, of course.
It was quite a new look that the young princesses obviously wore as children, these simple cotton dresses.
Yes.
I am completely captivated by their bloomers.
Their longer puffed knickers.
The bloomers are very practical because it just gives them some modesty, I suppose.
Particularly, you know, in childhood, playing with the corgis and the doggies and just having a kind of carefree childhood as was possible for the two young princesses.
Here we have dresses for Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, and astonishingly, they were crafted and sent from Paris by Lanvin.
Jeanne Lanvin being the first couturier to design clothing for children so far as I'm aware.
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