Queen wears 'recycled' dress to banquet in Toronto



Queen wears 'recycled' dress to banquet in Toronto. The Queen has demonstrated the creativity of her dressmaking team by wearing a ''recycled'' dress decorated with Swarovski crystals to a banquet in Toronto.


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Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrive for a state dinner in Toronto

The gown was originally worn to a state dinner in Trinidad and Tobago last autumn and had been decorated with the country's national birds - the scarlet ibis and cocrico.

But over the last two weeks it has been transformed by the Queen's dresser and personal assistant Angela Kelly and her team.

The seamstresses removed the images of the birds from the tulle lace that features sea pearls and sequins and stitched dozens of Swarovski crystals on to it.

As a tribute to Canada - one of the Queen's realms - the crystals formed maple leafs both large and small running up the dress's right sleeve and shoulder.

The interlocking leaves caught the light and were designed to be a bold statement at last night's dinner hosted by the Canadian government in honour of its Queen.

The dress was complemented by the sovereign wearing Queen Mary's dazzling tiara.

The ''recycling'' of a previously worn gown by the Queen is something she has done before, and she is said to describe the gown she wore at the dinner as ''a very useful dress''.

Last night's spectacular ''maple gown'' follows in a long tradition of themed diplomatic embroidery going right back to the 1953 coronation when the Queen had emblems of all her realms sewn into her dress.

The monarch has worn other gowns featuring significant symbols, colours or motifs but usually when on overseas tours and in honour of the country she is visiting.

The monarch wowed Australians with her ''wattle dress'' - featuring the national flower - which the Queen first wore on her 1954 tour to the country. ( telegraph.co.uk )

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