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Beforeprincess diana marriedPrince Charles, She happily embraced be called a "Sloane Ranger" or a "Sloanie" and, who is the cover ofThe Official Sloane Manual Ranger and received the title of "Super Sloane. »

At the time, the term "Sloane Ranger" refers to young people, very high upper or middle class London who lived in Chelsea, near Sloane Square. They went to "right" schools, came from "good families" and packed their Hunter rubber boots and barbour jackets when they decamped for their country houses for the weekend. Lady Diana Spencer always dressed the frilly blouse part carried with cardigans and long pleated skirts accessory with pearls and scarves attached around the neck.

When Diana became princess of Wales changed everything, including her eyes. It did not take long before Diana, with the help of the British publisher ofVogue at the time,Anna Harvey, Evolved from "Shy di" to the Unofficial Ambassador of British Fashion. And of course, it's the eighties with all the pomp and glamor who came with her. Always very well one day by Sloane, but with a much larger and expensive wardrobe, Diana started to wear sparkling evening dresses by British designers, includingBruce Oldfield, Who was responsible for some of his most glamorous looks during this period, including a silver dress that triggered a fire storm of the media attention.

"She loved sexy clothes," the designer told me when I interviewed it for my book,Diana: the secrets of his style. "She wore this dress in 1985 when she was my date for the DR (an advantage for the orphanage where Oldfield grew up) of Bernado. There were other guests there that night, includingJoan Collins. Diana looked like a movie star ".

When Diana's photos in Oldfield's dress landed on the first page of all newspapers in Britain, there were women who, once happily considered part of the Diana Sloane Brigade now criticized. 'Be too flashy. She was nicknamed "Dynastie-di," named after the nightboard whose casting including Collins who was very popular at the time.

At the time, no one knew how much Diana was in trouble and took the criticism very much to heart by reading all the stories about it in the newspapers. She was stung by the comments that implied that she was too light as she was still navigating the Royal Code and came with herself lapidary denigration she called privately her enemies.

She called them "the velvet headband. »

Diana invented the expression referring to women whose fagotated style often included the hair accessory not up to date. (Irony of the fate, they come back to fashion again thanks toKate Middleton)

"She said, 'Oh, these velvet headbands are again, when she discovers something that had been written or said about it, a friend of Diana told me. "They were cultivated women who still dressed as schoolgirls. They never changed. Diana had become a beautiful elegant princess and threatened them. To learn more about Princess Diana, seeWhy she has never changed her hairstyle around the queen.

Diane Clehane is a journalist and author of New YorkImagine Diana andDiana: the secrets of his style.

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