78 Times Kate Middleton Recycled Her Clothes
78 Times Kate Middleton Recycled Her Clothes
To be fair, there are only a handful of things you can wear for a life of waving, shaking hands, and planting ceremonial trees.
June 3, 2012
The Duchess of Cambridge first debuted this scarlet red dress from Alexander McQueen when she went on a boat ride down the River Thames for a Diamond Jubilee event.
Feb. 17, 2014
It re-emerged two years later for a reception for the dramatic arts at Buckingham Palace. No hat this time, but great expression!
Dec. 15, 2015
For this dress's threepeat, Kate sported her infamous fringe. The bright red suited the occasion: a Christmas party at the Anna Freud Centre Family School. And she did a hand dance with the kids!
Feb. 25, 2011
Newly engaged, the royal couple returned to their alma mater, St. Andrews in Scotland, for a fundraising event two months before their wedding. Kate wore a red jacket and skirt from Luisa Spagnoli.
April 14, 2014
Kate wore the Luisa Spagnoli again in 2014 during a visit to Christchurch, New Zealand as part of a three-week tour of Australia and New Zealand. She also played cricket in the outfit. Because princesses should be able to play cricket in anything, duh!
Dec. 16, 2015
Kate wore the separates again when she received a book from Air Commodore Dawn McCafferty in London.
Nov. 2, 2011
While hanging out with the Danish royals, Will and Kate stopped by a UNICEF emergency supply center and Kate looked on as Will ate some food. She wore a dark red coat from L.K. Bennett, one of her favorite brands and maker of her trusty nude pumps.
Nov. 24, 2012
The coat came out to play again a year later during an appearance at a rugby match in Cardiff, Wales.
Nov. 7, 2013
Kate put her hair in soft waves (possibly her first and last time wearing this hair) and buckled up her red coat for a meeting with The Royal British Legion's London Poppy Day Appeal at Kensington Palace.
Feb. 18, 2016
Orange juice for the duchess during a reception for the RAF Search and Rescue Force in Anglesey, north Wales. She wore a favorite hat with her L.K. Bennett coat.
Dec. 9, 2014
Kate was pregnant with Charlotte when she came to New York City for a short trip with Will. She wore a hot pink Mulberry coat when they visited the 9/11 Memorial.
March 27, 2015
Kate brought out the coat again for an event at the Stephen Lawrence Centre in London about a month before giving birth to Charlotte.
June 15, 2013
Back when she was expecting Prince George, Kate stood on the balcony of Buckingham Palace and watched the annual Trooping of the Colour ceremony.
March 9, 2015
The coat then dressed Kate's second bump for the Commonwealth Observance Service at Westminster Abbey.
April 23, 2014
Kate wore this pink Alexander McQueen peplum dress for the first time while touring Australia in 2014.
May 4, 2016
To mark the occasion of portraits of herself going up in the National Portrait Gallery, Kate recycled the pale pink McQueen.
May 6, 2006
To attend the wedding of Laura Parker-Bowles and hang out with her future in-laws, Kate wore this gold paisley coat by Day Birger et Mikkelsen paired with a really fun fascinator. It looks like a sea anemone!
July 30, 2011
For another in-law wedding (the union of Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall) in Scotland, Kate brought back the Day Birger et Mikkelsen, but opted to go with a giant potato chip flower hat.
Aug. 29, 2012
For another repeat, Kate wore the coat when she made an appearance at the London Paralympic Games. No hat at all this time!
June 5, 2012
Kate wore this champagne-hued lace Alexander McQueen sheath when she attended a national service of thanksgiving for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
June 10, 2014
Another June, same dress: This time, for the garden party at Buckingham Palace, the duchess went without a belt.
July 5, 2012
To attend the Thistle Ceremony in Edinburgh, Kate wore a bespoke Emilia Wickstead coat dress in yellow. William became a part of the Order of the Thistle that day.
April 14, 2016
It took four years for Kate to rewear the coat dress, but she did it! She stepped off the plane in Thimphu, Bhutan, to greet her hosts wearing sunny yellow.
April 24, 2014
Wearing a bright green belted Catherine Walker coat dress, Kate stood by Will as he shoveled dirt at the National Arboretun in Canberra, Australia, during their tour.
May 23, 2016
Kate stopped to smell the roses at the Chelsea Flower Show in London with other members of the royal family in the green Catherine Walker.
April 12, 2014
Here she is wearing a green Erdem coat in Hamilton, New Zealand, during the Australia New Zealand tour.
July 5, 2014
It's really hard to tell that she's at a different event but, believe it! (It's the hair.) Kate joined Will and Harry on the sidelines at the finish line of Stage 1 of the Tour De France in the U.K.
March 10, 2016
And ... we're back! Kate wore the Erdem coat again in 2016 during a visit to St. Thomas' Hospital in London.
Dec. 25, 2011
For her first official Christmas as a royal, Kate wore an olive green knee-length coat from Reiss.
Oct. 9, 2012
The Reiss coat was back in action when the duchess hit up a new gym in Burton-Upon-Trent in England.
Nov. 20, 2015
Kate wore her Reiss coat again in North Wales while visiting The Men's Shed Centre with Will.
Dec. 25, 2015
This is a different dark green coat by Sportmax (it's always nice to have more than one dark green coat option!), introduced to the world on Christmas at Sandringham in King's Lynn, England. Will held the umbrella, as he usually does.
Feb. 24, 2016
Kate visited St. Catherine's Primary School in Edinburgh as part of her work with the charity Place2Be, of which she is a patron.
Nov. 30, 2012
Kate went back to her childhood school, St. Andrew's School, in Berkshire, England, wearing a green tartan coat dress by Alexander McQueen. And she played field hockey in heels, because that's how the duchess does.
Dec. 25, 2013
Royal PDA! Royal PDA! Will and Kate walked while holding hands after the Christmas Day service at Sandringham.
March 8, 2012
Kate joined Queen Elizabeth II for her first official engagement without Will during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee tour. Kate wore dark green separates from L.K. Bennett. Here she is at King's Cross St. Pancras Station in London.
Dec. 9, 2015
She wore the L.K. Bennett outfit again for an ICAP Charity Day event in London.
Oct. 24, 2013
Kate held up the long skirt of this dark, blue-green gown by Jenny Packham while at a gala dinner for Action on Addiction hosted by the 100 Women in Hedge Funds in London.
Feb. 11, 2014
Here's Kate wearing the gown for the National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Gala in London.
Dec. 9, 2014
It wasn't the Met Gala, but a super-fancy dinner to celebrate the 600th anniversary of St. Andrews that got Kate dressed up in Jenny Packham again at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Remember: She was pregnant with Charlotte on this trip!
April 26, 2012
Kate loves this Rebecca Taylor tweed skirt suit, as you'll soon see. She first wore the suit while attending the Scott-Amundsen Centenary Race in London.
April 16, 2014
While on the Australia and New Zealand tour, Kate wore the Rebecca Taylor suit at Wellington Airport.
Feb. 2016
As the royal patron of Place2Be, a children's mental health charity, Kate joined school children at Salusbury Primary School in London to film a video message about the importance of mental health.
March 27, 2016
Kate put on the blue tweed again in interviews for the ITV documentary Our Queen at Ninety, when she revealed that George calls the queen "gan gan."
March 1, 2012
Kate joined the Duchess of Cornwall and the queen at Fortnum and Mason in London wearing a muted blue coat from M by Missoni.
June 13, 2012
Here she is in the collarless coat laughing at Will as he holds a toy rocket in Nottingham, England, during the Diamond Jubilee tour.
March 29, 2014
There's a funny story about this wearing of the coat: Kate wore it to attend the wedding of Lucy Meade and Charlie Budgett, and another guest wore the exact same coat. Okay, but who wore it better?
March 18, 2016
While touring a charity shop in England, Kate had on the M by Missoni coat and tried on a fun hat! She didn't buy it though.
April 25, 2014
Kate wore this blue tweed Michael Kors coat dress in Canberra, Australia, during the royal tour of Australia and New Zealand (it was a good trip for debuting repeatable clothes).
May 4, 2016
She wore the coat dress again to open the Magic Garden at Hampton Court Palace in London.
April 10, 2014
Will is a pilot, right? He went inside a Sopwith Pup at the "Knights of the Sky" exhibition in Wellington, New Zealand, while Kate held her own umbrella (!) and observed in a sky blue Alexander McQueen coat.
June 6, 2014
Will and Kate had some nice body language at a commemoration of the Normandy Landings in Arromanches, France.
Feb. 7, 2016
Cake-cutting: Also a big royal duty. Kate did the honors during a celebration for the 75th Anniversary of the RAF Air Cadets London. And she wore a big fancy RAF pin on her coat.
July 19, 2012
People of the internet, we are now entering the tricky territory of the blue sheath dress. This one by Stella McCartney stops at the knees and has three-quarter sleeves. Kate wore this to the National Portrait Gallery.
Aug. 2, 2012
She wore the same Stella McCartney dress to Wimbledon. Best part: She did the wave.
Feb. 14, 2014
Pop quiz: Is this a new dress or the same dress? New dress! But also, pretty much the same dress. This one is by L.K. Bennett and has a different neckline. Kate wore it first to the opening of the ICAP Art Room at Northolt High School in England.
Aug. 5, 2014
She wore it again to the Tower of London for an event.
April 9, 2014
George's famous playdate! Kate first wore this knit Tory Burch dress while in Wellington, New Zealand.
Oct. 10, 2015
She wore the Tory Burch dress again when at an event at Harrow College in England.
Jan. 8, 2012
Kate wore this black lace Temperley gown to attend the premiere of War Horse in London.
Nov. 8, 2012
She wore it a second time to grace a 600th anniversary reception and dinner for St. Andrews in London.
Dec. 11, 2013
And she wore it a third time for a screening of David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive in London.
March 15, 2012
Kate wore this gray Orla Kiely dress when she and her father-in-law Prince Charles made some artwork together at a gallery in London (this was also where the famous Prince-Charles-doesn't-know-how-to-iron incident happened). Adorable.
Oct. 27, 2015
Kate opted to wear the Orla Kiely dress again when she had a meeting at Islington Town Hawl in London.
June 13, 2011
This dove gray Katherine Hooker coat first came out when Kate attended the Order of the Garter service at Windsor Castle.
June 9, 2012
She wore it a second time to attend the wedding of Emily McCorquodale and James Hutt in Grantham, England.
April 25, 2012
This embellished gray Matthew Williamson peplum dress debuted when the duchess attended the premiere of African Cats in London.
Nov. 18, 2015
It was a windy day when she wore it a second time to the Place2Be Head-Teacher Conference in London.
July 30, 2012
Kate attended the UK Creative Industries Reception wearing a pale gray Roksana Ilincic dress with a cowl neckline.
May 4, 2016
She revived the look while at a lunch reception at the Anna Freud Centre, her first engagement as patron of the organization.
July 26, 2012
And she also play table tennis! Kate wore a patterned gray and white dress from Hobbs for an event at Bacon's College in England.
April 22, 2014
Kate wore it again while visiting Ayers Rock in Australia with Will.
April 18, 2014
This pretty eyelet dress from Zimmermann was the perfect look for petting a ram at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney.
July 2, 2014
It was also the perfect look for a tennis day at Wimbledon.
Sept. 12, 2012
Kate first wore this white broderie anglaise dress by Alexander McQueen while in Singapore for a Diamond Jubilee tour. Here, she and Will walked through the Gardens by the Bay.
April 16, 2016
When departing from Bhutan during the couple's tour of India and Bhutan, Kate repeated the dress.
Oct. 23, 2013
For George's christening in at St. James's Palace in London, Kate first wore this cream-colored Alexander McQueen dress with ruffled detailing down the bodice.
May 24, 2016
She wore the special dress again for a garden party at Buckingham Palace.
Someone isn't afraid to be a repeat offender.