7style: Juicy Jubilee

I think we can all safely agree that this long weekend has been much appreciated! However, I have never been so aware of my nationality in all my life.. Has anyone else ever seen so many union jacks and patriotic displays!!!

Unfortunately dressing myself head to toe in red, white and blue has never been my thing and I may explode if I see one for flag printed on a T.Shirt!

The only time I have ever owned something with the union jack print on it was my sex pistols album 'God save the Queen', sadly I don't think anarchy quite counts but everyone celebrates Britain in their own way! I'm not for one moment saying I am an Anarchist but I do think that at times people do go a little over the top.

Anyway, the title, Juicy Jubilee comes from something I came across on Vogue online.

To me the jubilee shows Sixty years as a style icon in a way, I mean, the queen more than anyone has seen British Fashion rise from the streets of portabelo market right the way across the pacific and beyond!

Looking back sixty years ago, where was fashion? What was it doing? Who was interested in it's very existence? After the war everything changed, especially for women. And it was the royal family that would have been the icons of the time, especially when it came to feminine elegance. It was only in the 1960's when as Anna Wintour once quoted you'd have to be wondering around with a paper bag over your head to not notice the sudden boom in style and liberation of the British woman. As hemlines got shorter and heels began to get higher everyone was celebrating! The 70's brought flower power and wide legged flares onto the scene, make up became more exciting than elegant and the punk revolution was born! A huge part of Britain's finest fashion booms! The 80's again, massive impact... Crop tops, big hair, punk rockers, glam, glam and glam again make up and massive shoulder pads! Girls weren't restricted to the a-line skirt and buttoned to the top blouses any more and it amazed me when I suddenly realised that H.R.H was front row seat to all of the above. Not that I expect you would ever find a photograph of Queen Elizabeth II at a roller disco wearing hot pants and baggy T.Shirt with The Clash splashed across it! Luckily for us we had the late Princess Diana wearing the fashion tiara when it came to the style icon amongst the royal family during the 80's, for her time and era she truly was a beautiful leader of style!

No matter what your age or taste when it comes to fashion you can not mistake H.R.H for having a fabulous take on coronation chic! She always looks so well turned out and manicured to the greatest standard and always has done, overall, its been sixty years well spent on the fashion thrown!