I admit, I tried watching The Crown when it first came out and it failed to grab me. Then Kendra admitted to giving up on it, so I was unprepared for the wild hair I recently got when I decided to binge-watch it (must have been all the promos coming out for season four with Princess Diana and Maggie Thatcher that got me to finally cave in). While the history might not be totally factual, the series doesn’t pull any punches, and between that and the truly amazing couture in the first two seasons, I found myself sucked in.
So, in honor of this random Tuesday, I decided to do a feature, in no particular order, of some of the iconic dresses worn by Princess Margaret in seasons 1 and 2 (season 3, of course, is where we have to end our coverage since our official cut-off date is 1969).
What’s your favorite dress worn by Princess Margaret in The Crown? Share it with us in the comments!
At first I thought I the gown the rather insipid ballgown is attempting to reference is the iconic Christian Dior gown she wore in her 21st birthday official portrait, but looking at it more, I think it is supposed to be the one she wore for her 19th birthday portrait.
21st: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/fashion/fashion-news/a26084601/princess-margaret-birthday-portrait-gown-dior-exhibition/
19th: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw07651
Those Cecil Beaton photo shoots, where she was dressed like her mom . . .
My favourites are her wedding dress from season 2 and the strapless pocket gown. You can’t go wrong with pockets. And the wedding dress was a very close facsimile
It feels like ages since I watched seasons one and two. I can’t think of any particular costumes for Margaret because they ALL looked gorgeous to me. The show has amazing production values on all levels.
I binge each season as it comes out… and I have re-watched it several times. Gorgeous outfits on Margaret — who is truly the only fashion icon until Diana’s later years. The queen always dresses so conservatively. I hated the change in actresses at first but now I’ve gotten used to it — although Vanessa Kirby is 5 inches taller than Helena Bonham-Carter, and that amuses me. Princess Margaret shrunk in-between seasons.
Oh, that smoky pink cocktail dress! (Although I think it actually appears at a wedding–but it was definitely a sexy cocktail dress.) Kirby would also make a good Amy Winehouse.
In the series, the picture where she is wearing te fluffy white gown is worn during a photo shoot by Cecil Beaton and the point was to show her as overly fairytail-y, hence the ridicule of the dress! she is mocking it in the show