20th Century Fashion

When Lady Diana Spencer was photographed in 1980, looking round‐faced and slightly bemused with two of her young kindergarten children and the sunlight pouring through her thin skirt, she seems to have been a bit of a “Sloane Ranger” (upper‐crust young women who hung around Sloane Street, West London in “practical separates” and a string of pearls). The following year she caused a sensation on her first official engagement by showing off “fine shoulders and low décolletage” in “a daring black taffeta gown by the Emanuels”. By 1983 Diana is an “ultra‐sophisticated princess” smiling confidently in a “one‐sleeved, beaded, pale...