Hello-Hello, and happy almost-weekend. (Although these days, that word summons a vision of Maggie Smith’s character in Downton Abbey asking, “What is a weekend?” because the days do run together sometimes!)
We are back with a very quick post focused on Kate’s ensembles that featured trousers instead of dresses. There were several requests to include these in a poll, so here we go. We begin with a March visit to the Henry Fawcett Children’s Centre. 
We are back with the results of the initial Favorite Daywear Dress poll and two quick polls looking at last year’s more formal frocks as well as the coatdresses worn by the Duchess. But first, I thought a look at Kate’s garden party ensembles would be fun.
We begin with the Duchess’s first garden party at Buckingham Palace in 2012. 
We’re back with the overview of Kate’s Chelsea Flower Show ensemble over the years. But first, a ‘new-old’ image of the Duchess from last year’s flower show that Kensington Palace released today. 
We are back with (finally) the favorite day dress poll featuring almost all of last year’s new styles. There are a few that aren’t included because we simply couldn’t see enough of them to make any kind of determination on how the piece looked. On that list: the & Other Stories dress worn for the private photos of the children testing out Kate’s Back to Nature Garden and the Boden’ Aurora’ seen in one of the family’s Christmas cards. There are also several that are included in separate polls for coatdresses and dressier styles.
I broke the voting into two polls because there are so many it didn’t seem like a good idea to have you all just endlessly scrolling through the different designs. Once we know the top choices in the two groups of dresses we’ll combine them in a new poll to get to a favorite for the year.
The first new dress we saw was at a Family Action engagement in mid-January. 
The Duchess was in a bespoke version of Beulah London’s Yahvi dress ($770). The midi-length dress is done in wool crepe and features a darted bodice, fitted waist, puffed sleeves, a full skirt, and distinctive button detailing at the left hip.
We are back with our fourth post for the week! We don’t often have that many in a ‘normal’ week, but I have to say it has been a delight to share that much content with you all as it is a welcome distraction for me from what can seem like an endless litany of difficult news.
Today we begin with a quick update on the dress worn by the Duchess last night in the Clap for our Carers video. Ghost London, the company that created the piece, announced they are donating all proceeds from sales of the dress to the NHS. 
