Here are some new photos of Pippa Middleton, out and about in London yesterday. Once again, it seems like she doesn’t have a regular job and she’s just a lady who lunches… most often with her mother. Would it surprise you to learn that I actually like Pippa’s outfit? I think someone might be helping her out with her wardrobe these days, she’s been making some smarter choices. And I do covet Pippa’s legs – for my money, Pippa’s legs are so much better/more proportional than Kate’s legs. Sidenote: The Mail ID’d Pippa’s bag. It’s the Marylebone tote by Aspinal. It costs £795, which is roughly (?) $1400. For that? I mean, it’s a cute bag, but I wouldn’t pay four figures for it.
Anyway, you know how I finally figured out Pippa’s “job” as a “writer”? She’s the real-life equivalent of Bridget Jones: Pippa gets paid to put on costumes, pose for photos and pretend to learn some kind of skill or sport. She does this for The Telegraph, for Vanity Fair, and for several other publications.
Interestingly enough, her column in this month’s Vanity Fair is all about her love of rugby (there’s even a photo of, you guessed it, Pippa in a short skirt and a rugby ball). So, I don’t find rugby interesting whatsoever, but in the column, Pippa confesses a long-standing love for a famed rugby player named Will Carling. Back in the 1990s, Will Carling had an affair with Princess Diana. It was a big scandal a few years before Diana died. What does it mean when you have a crush on your brother-in-law’s dead mother’s piece of tail?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
What a fool.
I don’t like Pippa’s legs at all, they seem oddly shaped.. Her purse seems like something Goop would recommend as a “steal” because it’s so “cheap”..
I do like her sweater, it seems very comfortable.
cmon, her legs are well shaped, close to perfect. Although these boots make them look short.
In terms of proportions her legs ARE short. Muscular and fit – yes- but very short, even squat.
I just saw a bag that looks very similar to that bag at Marshals. It couldn’t have been more than $40.
And her legs are well proportioned. Pippa and Kate have long torsos and equally long legs so it often looks weird.
If I had to pick i’d say pippa has the better figure.
Don’t get why you like outfit. This woman has reams of money and all she can come up with is a pair of skinny jeans like 90% of the rest of the population. Totally uninteresting, totally uninspiring. Pippa Tip: When you’ve got some money, spend it on something nice.
I think she feels most comfortable when she is dressed sporty. She has a kind of hard, sporty figure so makes sense.
I don’t like the outfit, either. Too matchy matchy. She looks like a mime without the white gloves.
That sweater, jeggins or skinny jeans, but denim, Tall, simple, brown boots. And a different bag. I wish I could dress Pippa. I hate her boots here.
Maybe she doesn’t want to stand out because she wants to do some personal shopping and have some time alone?
The boots are awful. They look as efficient as medieval rag wrappings.
Zing!
Right on the button, BettyBlue!
Call me cynical, but Pippa would have been too young to have had a crush on any of that era’s rugby boys, but I guess she had a column write and she needs to name check the most well known player outside the world of Rugby.
Will Carling’s era was late 80s/early 90s. Pippa would have been 8yrs old when he was retiring.
That said, that squad had a lot of glamorous and goodlooking men. I had a crush on Jeremy Guscott and Lawrence Dilalio.
Pippa has mentioned crushes in other pieces as well. I guess that’s one of her hooks.
As for her columnist career, if I were her (didn’t need the paycheck because my parents supported me in a very comfortable lifestyle) I’d be too embarrassed to take such a high profile gig that I knew came my way due to connections and not merit.
Thing is, I’m not sure the Middleton wealth is necessarily all that it’s cracked up to be. Sure, the parents are entrepreneurs, but they’re entrepreneurs selling fairly cheap party supplies. Maybe the company was a shell for laundering Uncle Gary’s $$$, but with all the public scrutiny of Kate these days, I doubt that is currently going on (too high risk).
My feeling is that they probably bring in enough cash that they’re able to project an image of leisure, but not necessarily enough to guarantee they’re set for life. Pippa may not desperately need the paycheck, but I don’t think she’s so wealthy that she feels she has no use for it at all.
Hey Lak – I’ve met Dallaglio a few times. He’s a great guy, despite what the tabloids would have had us believe. Generations of Wasps fans in my family!
When I was little I had a huge crush on Christopher Reeves lol. By the time I was 12 the short list was Lord Byron, Ralph Macchio and Mark Alery (Duke Blue Devils) in that order. I like to pretend the whole Christopher Marlowe thing never happened *cringes*
Its a low road even for Pippa to bring up a decades only reference to Diana’s past lover, clearly a ploy for some Pippa headlines and some sales of the poorly-written article. Just another reason Pippa remains the most intolerable of the Middleton bunch.
I thought it was such a weird thing to ‘fess up to. I don’t follow rugby, but surely there were other well-known players from that era that she could have said she liked.
And I had a little crush on Gary Lineker (Spurs footballer and current pundit for those who don’t know) when I was 10. Hell I loved Adam Ant when I was 7.
Will Carling? EWWW! Double eww actually, because we don’t like Quins in our house.
When I was at uni, he briefly rented next door to my BFF’s parents in London. We were constantly spying on him as teens do and there was nothing to see.
As far as teams go, we were spying on the enemy since we were wasps supporters!
HA! Let’s name drop together. I didn’t see this when I posted above.
My brother, uncles and cousins are still Wasps season ticketers but I am now a traitor who has moved allegiance to Exeter Chiefs since I decided to get out of London.
My god! That woman looks old! And i find her sweater hypnotizing.
On a superficial note, that outfit really draws attention to Pippa’s short legs/long torso combo.
Her legs are too muscular for skinny jeans. She should have worn them with heels to elongate her legs. And definitely not with that jumper.
i really like the jumper 🙂
But not for Pippa… you´re right he makes her long torso look longer. High heels would have balanced the legs-torso proportion a little bit. Thats´s why Kate wears heels all the time. She may be taller than Pippa, but she also has a long torso with normal long legs. Pippa has sportier/ stronger legs and so they´ll always look shorter, but with the right outfit it would be less visible.
I think Pippa prefers comfort. She only wears heels when she is dressed up – otherwise it is flats, flat boots or sometime Converse sneakers. Unlike Kate, she never gives off an anorexic air – her skinniness seems a natural outgrowth of her athleticism (she won an athletic scholarship to Marlborough).
As to her writing “career” – well if publications are willing to pay her to write, why should she not write? She still writes her Waitrose column (this month it is “Pippa’s Pies” and despite all the cries from people saying they will never shop at Waitrose again because she appears in their magazine, Waitrose seems to be surviving well enough. Her Telegraph column is sport and social – sometimes they have her trying out and reporting on a sport, at other times she does thing such as learn how to make cocktails or visit the flower market. Silly fluffy weekend stuff, but pleasant enough. Her writing is perfectly passable and she does have a sense of humor.
It does take time to write these things and get in the photo shoots etc. It’s not a terribly taxing life, but it probably keeps her busy. I rarely see her out with her mother by the way. Mostly I see pictures of her walking down the same street in South Kensington (frequently carrying coffee) where she has had an office since 2011. The paps know where to find her when it is a slow news day.
Justme
Maybe you could claim Pippa had a sense of humor before she threatened to send the royal lawyers out to rip the #PippaTips people away from their last cent.
It wasn’t hateful humor at all either.
Everything else I agree with you. Her body is fit. She gets work so why not work! It’s really the publications issue to weigh losing credibility by employing her to her name recognition and grabbing new readers.
And the paps know where she is always. She’s only printed when it’s a slow news day.
I agree that it was heavy handed. I do understand why however. And it has to do with money.
Pippa tips is back – this time specifically labelled as a “parody site”. Before it was not and some people were mixing up Pippa with Pippa tips (Pippa tips were much funnier, but their humor came from being silly and obvious). If people thought (and some did) that the tips were really from Pippa it could damage her “brand”. Now you may think that Pippa having a “brand” is ridiculous (and it certainly could be argued that it is), but since she is trying to have one, it is in her interest to differentiate herself from a parody site.
The bloom is off the tips now anyway. They are now so 2012-13. That sort of thing never lasts too long.
The other thing is that someone can have a great sense of humor and also be a complete son of a – well you know. There are a lot of people like that!
Justme
The lawyers came into play right after Pippa’s party book was not doing well and the #pippatips folks were being asked to write a book. Doesn’t it always come down to money?
Although, many of the lines were very close. Pippa only has herself to blame for lines telling us how drawers are great for storage, and to always have a tray of ice handy with directions on how to make ice.
I guess I was on board until she wasn’t laughing anymore. This came on the heels of the tabloid being shut down for publishing the topless Kate photos. Just seemed like lots of people losing their jobs for just doing their jobs in a down economy.
I always forget that people in the UK refer to sweaters as jumpers lol.
Especially when they are such comfy-looking jumpers 🙂
And speaking of VF articles I just read the Nigella story in the latest issue–Nothing new except an awful pap shot or Trinny Woodall embracing Saatchi with her skirt hitched up and her black tight clad coochie on full display. Apparently Trinny has abandoned all pretense of style in her pursuit of riches.
Wait, she once had style that she is now able to abandon?
I currently live in China and I swear to you that I see bags that look like hers being sold by street vendors in front of the supermarket every day for like sixteen American dollars. Call me a working class broad, but if I were to pay an exorbitant designer markup on a bag, it darnwell better look like an interesting and quality piece that I paid some money for.
I’d want it to be useful, too. She’s carrying stuff in her right hand that one would think a gigantic tote would accommodate.
There are some great knockoffs coming from China. One of my friends bought an LV for $300 (as opposed to $2,700), and we examined the hell out of it using my real bags for comparison. Except for the slight difference in “feel” of the LV vinyl, you can’t tell the difference. After seeing her bag I honestly don’t think I will buy another real bag again.
That being said … I like Pip’s bag. It doesn’t seem like a bag she would carry, though … so I’m wondering if the company gave it to her for “marketing” purposes? It looks like a “spring” bag; not winter.
i read somewhere that China is the knock off region in the world. You can find any label you want.
Buying knock-offs supports a dangerous and detrimental underworld for the sake of cheap vanity 🙁
I wasn’t saying I buy designer knockoffs, I’m simply remarking upon the similarities in appearance between exorbitantly marked up designer bags and their imitation counterparts. It kind of takes the luster out of the high-priced stuff, I think. I would want to buy something that looked well-crafted and made from beautiful materials, not something that I had to say to myself, “Is it expensive or a knockoff? So close it’s hard to tell.”
WAAMOStars
Oh I certainly didnt take your comment in that way. I shouldve prefaced my statement with a soapbox warning advisory lol. It was more of a general reaction to an industry I used to view as harmless before I learned better. I hope I didnt offend you.
Foo
Dont do it please!
If there’s anything I like in the photos, its the bag. That outfit doesn’t look good on her. I mean, its a simple sweater and skinny jeans combo, and she’s got a decent figure, so its kinda surprising.
She’s a world-class climber and she’s disciplined. I give her credit.
What happened with her engagement?
There is no official engagement. That was just US Magazine jumping the gun. She’s only been going out with the guy for a year or so. They seem happy together however, so it is possible they’ll get married in the future.
Suze
Isn’t it funny that both People and US weekly get fairly reliable tips from close sources or agents, but they wrote opposite takes on the articles?
I’m convinced it was a trial run. They’re engaged, but will announce it when it suits them best.
That’s when we’ll see a ring.
Such a basic girl. There’s really nothing extraordinary about her. Poor thing…
And here I was thinking that was one amazingly ugly outfit.