Catherine Walker Tartan Plaid Coatdress

fits Franklin Mint Diana Portrait Doll



Tartan plaid wool coatdress with red velvet cuffs, lapels, and pockets, a Catherine Walker design from 1990. Diana wore it during a state visit to Japan that year and, according to her butler Paul Burrell, when she asked Prince Charles if he liked her new outfit he replied that she looked “like a British Caledonian air hostess” and left for the car, leaving her to muster back up her confidence, pull a smile from somewhere deep inside, and follow him out. She wore it again in May of 1992 on a visit to Devon, and later that year to Glasgow, and it was still in her wardrobe at Kensington Palace when she died. It’s now in the exhibit of her clothing at Althorp.







This recreation is in plaid wool flannel with red linen collar, pockets and cuffs, is fully lined, and has red ‘buttons’ over a snap closure. Includes red pleather clutch handbag. Shown with my own earrings(!) and the red shoes from the Red Dress with Bow ensemble.

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