Unspoken Style Tricks Princess Diana Used (That Still Work On Anything You Own)

In 1991, Diana paid nine hundred pounds for a black dress in a small Knightsbridge shop - and then did not wear it for three years.

She dressed herself almost every morning of the most watched life on earth. No stylist. No brand deal. Nobody's permission.

And almost none of what she did required money. A curtain weight in a hem. Hosiery matched to the dress instead of the shoes. A comb sewn into the inside of a hat. A strip of velvet ribbon the exact color of her own hair. Every one of these is a decision, not a purchase — which is why they all still work, thirty years later, on whatever is hanging in your closet tonight.

Number two is that black dress, and the night she finally put it on, she knocked her own husband off the front page of every newspaper in Britain.