Did everybody see that HAT???

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

Some wedding guest is wearing the weirdest hat ever -- it's huge and beige and looks like a squid.

WTF?

[Suich]

1. I think that's Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew's daughter. n/t

[XemaSab]

2. I'm surprised E didn't snatch it right off her head

:o

[ikri]

3. This one?

Not just a guest at the wedding either, that's Princess Beatrice - 5th in line to the throne as things stand.

**Edit**
Now with a different host that's hopefully a little more hot-link friendly (all credit to Bela Lugosi's Dad on b3ta.com for the pic).

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. I'm only getting a red X in your post.

Must...see...squid hat...

Edit: There it is! An FSM hat! :rofl:

=ramen=

[kentauros]

5. It looks like the FSM!

:rofl:

[ikri]

7. Artistic License

I don't think the original had the cartoon eyes but otherwise, that's the hat she wore.

[deutsey]

9. LOL

that's what I thought, too. :rofl:

[MrCoffee]

6. Fuck me sideways!

It looked bad enough au natural...but with the eyes, man, that is creepy as all hell.

[WolverineDG]

8. I guess that's the modern way of saying FU to the hat requirement

most of the ones I saw on younger women are all small caps placed on the front of the head, so as not to mess up their hair. While that squid thing looks weird, at least it doesn't look like a peacock exploded, like the one on her sister's head.

dg

[Love Bug]

10. I think she lost a bet with her sister

Not that her sister's hat is much better!

[Moondog]

11. Heh. British ladies and their hats.

The good news is, at least when I was living there, that they frequently compensate for their abysmal taste in hats by other sartorial choices that they would make with pleasantly surprising frequency.

[GomezLives]

12. And we invented the baseball cap. What a vulgarity.

[haele]

13. I think it's supposed to be a cameo. The dress and hat are "cameo pink"

Whole outfit looks like a throwback to the late 60's Mary Quant look (Twiggy, etc), with the shirt-dress style and that funky collar. I mean, look at her make-up and hair style! big clue there.
I wouldn't be surprised if QEII wore a dress like that (not so much the hat) back in the 60's.
And yes, it looks like it was planned to be a "FU" statement to the royals - very satirical and in a "Pretty in Pink" way - going for that feel of "we're simple outsiders who modified thrift store clothes to fit in with the rich kids".
The pink dress and hat just rode the line between fashion and satire - it was well made even though it wasn't "fitted" right (bustline gapiosis!).
Eugenie's blue dress didn't quite go retro fashion enough (I think she was aiming for Delta Burke/Designing Women), and was a little too clumsy, not fitted well enough, to pull off the satire properly.

Haele

[solara]

14. Rumor has it that the sisters are getting their revenge on the Royal family since

their Mother, Fergie, was royally dissed and not invited to the "wedding of the century"

:shrug: