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I make it a rule not to take fashion advice from seven-year-olds. There’s just too many cargo shorts and positive-slogan printed hoodies for my taste – also, I’m a woman in my thirties. That rule usually extends to seven-year-old royal princes, too. But sometimes a fit just goes hard and dues must be paid. Case in point: Prince Louis out-dressing the entire British royal bloodline in a sharp double-breasted suit this Easter.
Prince William and Princess Catherine’s youngest, Louis, joined the whole crew on Sunday in Windsor. He and his siblings – Prince George, 12, and Princess Charlotte, 10, for anyone who doesn’t read Majesty Magazine – were all doing their classic, well-heeled fits. You know: smart buttoned-up dress coats and navy blue suits. The tried and tested royal spec.
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Except Prince Louis kinda decided to… stunt? Instead of his dad and his big brother’s single breasted suits (before you send me hate mail: nothing wrong with these!), the little prince took a leaf out of his great-grandfather, Prince Philip’s, book and rocked an old school double-breasted suit. The miniature navy two-piece included a four-button closure (no false upper buttons – why bother!), some straight leg trousers and a light-blue tie matching his big bro.
This is likely a tiny Savile Row fit (his granddad King Charles frequents Anderson & Sheppard), and it shows. The peak lapel (both George and William went for the more modern and standard notch on theirs) is a nice pick, as well as the slightly shortened jacket arms to get the cuffs in the wind. If I’m being fair, it fits him better than his dad’s. Grown-up men could learn a thing or two from the cut of this suit.
Listen, I’m trying not to over-analyse children’s clothing, because it isn’t my day job, and it also makes me feel kinda weird. But a good suit is a good suit and I’m nothing if not honest. Prince Louis may be the spare's spare, but he's kinging out in style.
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