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At the Met Gala Ball of 1996, Princess Diana appeared with her braless dress to take revenge after her “liberating” divorce from then-Prince Charles. People were shocked when they saw Princess Diana in her dress, as they were not expecting someone who spend time as a member of royal family to see in a dress like this.
Diana wore a lingerie-inspired silk navy-blue slip dress with black lace. On top of that, Diana had a silk matching robe.
“That was one of her most shocking dresses. But I thought she looked fabulous. She just looks so happy and confident,” Eloise Moran, author of “The Lady Di Look Book: What Diana Was Trying To Tell Us Through Her Clothes,” shared.
“I think she was embracing it and enjoying it. She knew she could never get rid of the attention and the spotlight on her, but I think she was positioning it in a different way, as a kind of international megastar, Marilyn Monroe-type icon rather than a member of the royal family. And I think the dress really reflected that.”
Fashion editor Hilary Alexander stated that some famous names can be seen “wearing underwear as outerwear, but for a princess to do it at a formal occasion is a different matter.”
“It is a very sensual rather than overly sexy dress, and it is a million miles away from the more formal outfits she usually picks.”
“It was not so much haute couture as Oh! Couture,” Brenda Polan, fashion critic, said. “The problem, and there is no delicate way of saying this, is that it looked like she had accidentally stepped out in her nightie, which meant, of course, that she wasn’t wearing a bra.”
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