On The Crown, Princess Diana's casual clothes hint at the psychological complexity of her attempts to be seen and heard.
We meet Diana and her lover as she sports an iconic 90s look: wearing a sweatshirt with a logo on it and eating yogurt out of a plastic container. Does it get more H.W. Bush administration than that?! And this is not just any sweatshirt, but the now-famous Harvard sweatshirt she wore while dodging the paparazzi on the streets of London in 1997, and which embodies Diana’s obsession American symbols of privilege and their distinctly un-British embrace of casual-ness.
And indeed, Debicki-as-Diana as the sleek and preppy glamazon shines through. This episode is a treat for Diana fashion lovers, especially those who dote over images of her coming and going from the gym in sweatshirts and bike shorts, or wearing sweat suits and cowboy boots.
What was the story with these weird combinations, and her obsession with sweatshirts? In the 1980s, her fussy sweaters and sportswear combinations felt like an attachment to her youth, or a way to remind us just how young she was. But as she grew older, they felt more and more like a way for her to assert some sense of normalcy, an attachment to the “real world” out there where people wore things like sweatshirts, however ridiculously regal she ended up looking in them.
Even in her most relaxed and private life, Diana was somehow obsessively pulled together, which this episode could have pushed further but admirably hints at. Her styling choices could have an antic quality to them that suggested an heirloom quality of turmoil, like that Harvard sweatshirt, with his slovenly sense of privilege, or wearing the collar of her terry cloth robe high like a starched judicial collar, as Debicki does late in the episode .
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