OY BUTTONS. DID YOU SEE MY BUTTONS?
At this point, I really do believe that the Duchess of Cambridge knows she has a button problem, and she’s just actively trolling us. She’s like “oh, they want buttons? I’ll give them some motherf–king buttons.” The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the Fire Station Arts Centre in Sunderland today and Kate just had to wear a new coat SLATHERED in buttons. I can’t stop laughing. I count 16 buttons but I suspect her hair is hiding some additional ones.
This button-covered coat is by Dolce & Gabbana and it’s “new to us,” meaning this is the first time she’s worn the coat in public. I’m assuming the off-the-rack cost is thousands of dollars, but remember, she likely had this altered to accommodate her pregnancy. Just as she had all of those coats altered ahead of the big Sweden and Norway trip last month, many of which would still fit and are probably worth a repeat. But not for our precious Keen! She was so keen to get another button-slathered coat, she didn’t even look at the price tag.
Previously, I’ve requested in previous posts for commenters to write love poems or love letters in Kate’s voice, to her greatest love, BUTTONS. For today’s challenge, let’s try a haiku! Please write a haiku about buttons and Kate.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Lol.
That’s all I have about the ridiculous coat.
Her face looks good though!
She does look very refreshed! Now for my (extended) haiku:
Look at my buttons.
You may think there’s too many,
but these fifty three
distinguish me from the plebs
glory to buttons.
First thoughts were: “What the bejesus is a haiku?!” After 15 mins on google, i’m still not sure I know much better, but here goes:
Her coats were covered
So she then went the next step
Now has them for eyes
Hahaha that’s brilliant! You nailed it.
LOL!
😂
A haunting haiku! Buttons for eyes.
perfection!
AAAHHHH I am scared. Lol
Her face looks the best it has in years. She looks younger and beautiful. I do think she is a beautiful woman when not so thin, which makes her look tired and drawn.
Please give me buttons
Bright and shining in the sun
They make me happy
OR
Buttons smooth and round
Rounded like my pregnant tum
My button body
ahahahahhaa
Kate Buttenton.
Thank you!!!!! I needed the laugh this morning. And those are some serious buttons. Let’s just all come to terms that Kate will never be a style icon. It’s not who she is. She more the chutney making type, sitting at home watching the kids and being June Cleaver. Unless some star celebrity is involved or it’s a beach vacation. 🤣
I’m assuming this look is fire station inspired?
And I’m assuming that, besides the 16 visible buttons, there are at least four spare ones sewn into the hem.
Maybe Michael Jackson inspired? He loved buttons, too.
I’m just a commoner. When I was pregnant I had to wear my regular coat and leave it open! No tailoring for this poor gal.
Shiny round buttons
One can never have enough
All for Katie Keen
(we NEED Liberty in this thread)
Designers think they know best,
But they all forget the Duchess’ decree,
Buttons; they make the garment.
Oh fuck, I forgot it’s syllables, not words! Disregard this nonsense.
Hahahahaha, awesome!
LMAO Oh god, if that were her thought process, I’d respect her game. That is on FUG coat.
Perfectly nice coat despite all the buttons. However, it’s just another expensive outfit which will likely be worn once and put into mothballs in the Kensington Palace wardrobes. She wore several new coats during her Scandinavian trip. Surely one of them could have been “recycled”?
The Dolce and Gabbana that was identical aside from the colour, perhaps…
MTE. It’s basically the same style in another color, but I think this one might have even more buttons!
https://www.popsugar.com/fashion/photo-gallery/44549556/image/44549558/Kate-Middleton-Dolce-Gabbana-Coat-Norway-Feb-2018
The Duchess did say
Buttons please, every day
Until none remained
I haven’t written a haiku since university, but I gave it a whirl. She really outdid herself today. Also, Dolce & Gabbana are a controversial choice, owing to their horrid public statements. I guess buttons make it okay.
Hahaha, nice.
hahah nice one!
I don’t think Kate really gives a crap about supporting controversial designers or supporting women’s rights, she comes off as pretty vapid and shallow. I’m sure she was just thinking “BUTTTONS!! SHINY BUTTONS!!” and the super homophobic shit D&G have spewed didn’t phase her, because buttons.
Good one
Gleaming so brightly
In the brilliant sunny day
Beloved buttons!
Worthless is a day
That I cannot walkabout
With buttons displayed.
I love my buttons!
Silver, gold, cloth, no matter!
Just any, and many!
Ok, I’m on meds for a sliced finger lol. Best I can do with no sleep.
Still, have to say, she looks lovely. Makeup toned down, happy, engaged with the crowd. Thumbs up today, Kate!
She seems to alway deeply enjoy her third trimester (in comparison to earlier trimesters).
Amazing haiku! Love it 🙂
So now we know that Kate has a sence of humor- good for her. I like her preggs looks- she is glowing and with rounded face looks so nice.
16 buttons- impresive.
She does look good – healthy and genuinely happy.
The Waity Duchess
Wears buttons to look regal
Meghan would never
Zing!
Laughing here!
LOLOL! Perfect!
Giggle
Kate loves her buttons
Can’t have too many buttons
She always tells Will
🤓
I have this in red
My spending’s ridiculous
But, oh! More buttons!
see me don’t see me
glint catches paparazzi
I’m very private
Haha…love it.
Out and about for the last month and 1/2..what gives?? Competition I see
I have a title “the last button that fell and rolled down to be never seen again”
Is it weird that I think ‘unless there is a hidden zipper it must take her 3 minutes to put her coat on and go!?’ LOL
You can bet she won’t be taking this one off inside!!!
😅😅😅. OMG…..you are so funny, Kaiser!! I bursted out laughing. I think I just woke up our whole house!
Same! I’m at work and burst out laughing at the headline.
Me too! Snickering away behind my hand at a desk in a lobby. Oy!
Lollllll
*whispers* “look at all these buttons”
LOL I love this thread!
Deck the coat with lots of buttons fa la la la la la la la la…
Tis the buttons to be coat-y, fa la la la la la la la la!
Don we now our best coatdresses, fa la la la la la!
Troll the throngs of common pheasants, buttons buttons buttons..
Good one, you cover all bases
A coat with many buttons sewn.
I am keen to wear it out!
Hopefully Charlotte will want one too.
Okay it’s been many years since I wrote a haiku. I don’t even know if I did it right. I’m glad she’s working, but why does she need so many coats? She could wear her old ones she wore on her other pregnancies. To top it off that’s not even a UK brand. Isn’t she supposed to be an ambassador? One really is keen on liking her but HRH makes it hard. (See what I did there?)
Have a good day everyone! 😛
i truly believe she is trolling us. Good for her.
I think that all these coats can be altered back once she is not pregnant anymore, so I do not see that as a big issue.
More like; How do i make the forget about the dress debacle, Buttons.
Oh buttons my frill!
Adorn every frock of mine…
If only a crown.
Mummy always said…
Wear lots of regal buttons,
And wait for your man.
hahaha, good throw back to Waity Katy
Oh, bright and shiny buttons
Center of my world
I am Duchess of Buttons.
All those shiny buttons…..
Buttons! More Buttons!
I find them fascinating.
Get it? I like puns.
– DK
Yeah, too many buttons for a pregnant body LOL They give a warped line.
She’s either Keen, Duchess of Buttons or Keen, Duchess of Doily. Now she is beginning to enjoy being Keen, Duchess of Frills. There is no compromise in her fashion choices.
One button for each
Indignity I’ve suffered
In the name of work
*applause*
Love it!
Really good one
Silver and gold, my jewels
Fit for a princess like me
My basic buttons
Keen as a cucumber
I wear my buttons on my sleeve
And everywhere else
I work hard and keen
It’s the price to pay, exhausting
Doing up my buttons
A coat of buttons
reveals personality
That is too keenly.
Kate’s keen for buttons.
Buttons are the thing she loves.
The queen of the buttons.
How many buttons
Is Duchess Kate wearing now
I think quite a lot
I wonder if Kate wakes up at night in a cold sweat, runes to her coat closet, turns the light on and whispers ‘my precious’?!?! HA!
How big were the crowds to see them?
I checked the fail. Quite a few people but not clear how many because the photos were taken up close.
What I did notice however was that she changed her hills into boots for visiting a building site apparently. Now, all that talk about “protocol” re: keeping her coat on while indoors. But somehow she managed to change her footwear. Major LOL!
There is a photo where she removes her coat. She’s wearing a black and white dress.
Also, they have such small turnouts outside of the bussed in children that media has taken to close cropping their pictures and or filming very close so that you don’t see the small or non existant crowds.
But the royal press pack on twitter gleefully share photos of the empty streets showing the barriers erected in anticipation of the hordes that never come.
This is completely opposite for Harry / MM or even Charles/ Camilla.
@LAK I checked the fail again and saw her in yet again new summer dress during winter time. And she got a small henna tattoo on her right hand. I know about warnings against henna tattoos as henna cam provoke burns or allergic reactions. There were even warnings a few years ago for tourists leaving from a European airport a few years ago. I know those tattoos hold symbolic significance in some cultures but Kate getting one during pregnancy makes me shake my head.
@SoulSPA
Trust me when I say there is nothing wrong with Kate getting a henna tattoo. If she was getting one while on holiday in Turkey or somewhere that would be a problem because they have a history of causing burns, perhaps because the ingredients in the henna are not regulated properly over there?. But I’ve had henna loads of times and never once experienced burns or an allergic reaction. I’ve never met anyone who has had an allergic reaction or been burnt by henna either.
@whatever I believe you 😃. No more SMH then!
I also noticed that she took her coat off while meeting and coloring with children earlier, unlike how she kept her coat on in Sweden and people on DM insisted ‘royal women don’t remove their coats’ sigh
LOLOLOLOL. the headline and the haikus here are killing me.
I saw this coat and thought – “oh shes wearing one of her other coats.” Nope. NEW! I would be completely fine with it (yes it’s button-y, yes its kind of dull) but she got a NEW D&G coat tailored for her this pregnancy? You’ve gotta be kidding. Much like we’ve been saying she’s building up her appearances in anticipation of her maternity leave, maybe she is also building up her clothing expenses so that even with time off her wardrobe this year is still $$$$$.
Big Shiny Buttons
Keen Kate needs a bespoke coat
For an hour’s work
A Queen I must feel
Buttons are my tiara
BOW TO THE BUTTONS!
I really don’t want to be one of those kate haters/conspiracists that suspect her increased work presence is due to fears of ‘female competition,’ but sheesh, I feel like we’ve seen her more in this trimester of this pregnancy than in the past three years combined.
Yes! Thank you! I’m like “ANOTHER appearance???” Wow.
So true.
It is getting weird. I mean good for her but whoa Kate.
Keep it up, Duchess!
I hope she finds some meaning in it and sees she can be more and make a difference.
How many new coats does this woman need?!
The two of them have been out every day doing the job they’re supposed to be doing (whatever the reasons-Duke of E retiring and forcing their hand, increased competition, keen actually kicking in). She can wear ALL the buttons and not hear a peep from me. Although your haikus are clever-I’ll say that!
OMG, this entire thread is hilarious.
Good news hidden grows
A princess beams in the light
buttons for two now
Beautiful!
As soon as I saw the pictures of this coat on People, I knew Kaiser would have a field day with it. Thanks for not disappointing me!
I really wonder if anyone has ever pointed out to Kate her love of buttons. I really wonder where the affinity comes from! Maybe she is allergic to zippers.
Buttons, my true love,
Round and shiny you call me,
Closer to the coat.
I am now totally convinced that someone has drawn Kate’s attention to this site and she is doing a
🖕
I laughed so hard at just the title of this. Not even going to read the article or look at the pics. You win the internet headline for today 🏆
Be careful what you wish for – now that she is actually working every day like the rest of us, I can’t wait for her to disappear into her 6 months-at-least maternity leave. That woman is boring beyond belief – fashion- and otherwise.
Why can’t she just buy 20 neutral coats and then just exchange the buttons? That would save a ton of money and might actually be interesting.
Also, I wish she would emphasise her baby belly instead of trying to hide it.
Literally button earrings to match nice colour coat though
One gleaming button
For each year I Waitey-ed
Until the balding Prince
Became mine
I’m going to add a comment though,I think she looks very lovely recently and she seems quite happy and more relaxed.Pregnancy suits her well!
Support of women
If harassed, abused, but not
When wearing buttons.
I don’t know if it’s jealousy or what, but it’s showing.
Buttons buttons here,
Buttons buttons ev’rywhere,
Toy-soldier cosplay.
I’m starting to believe the twins rumor!
Me too!
Why!
I think she is showing more heavily than either pregnancy before ,and maybe the buttons are doing double duty-One,she loves buttons and two,perhaps she’s keeping her bump literally under wraps hence those extra buttons 😉
I didn’t know there were any qualified twins rumors. That being said, I think she’s just gaining weight like a normal pregnancy girl, aka more than she ever did the first two rounds. Probably swelling too, I hear when you do three in a row pretty quickly as she has, often the body struggles a little more on the third.
Ok. So this is what I’ve got:
Big shiny MF buttons bitches
Keenly she smiled while twirling her hair
Charles pays so who cares
Or
Up down and all around
Silver buttons adorn her costly ugly coats
Peasants gasp filled with disgust
Your vitriol is lost because neither of these are haikus.
Is it?😊
It’s 5-7-5 syllables, not 5-7-5 words…
Yes. I remember that from grammar school.
@Honey, clearly you do not…🙄
Disks of metal, cloth?
No, my coats of many worlds
Contain multitudes
Oh shiny buttons
Together we ever glow
Brighter than Meghan
I’d like to reply to some comments about the crowd sizes for William and Kate. I’ve said this before – whether we like William or not, he has managed to do what Diana and the palace could never do – and that is keeping the press at arm’s length and that does lessen interest. And I think William is just fine with smaller crowds and less press. He’s happy to not have “Diana mania” around Kate. So while some might think they’re boring and no one cares to show up, I think William is good with that.
Buttons buttons but-
Ons Buttons Buttons Buttons
Buttons buttons but. . . .
Just look at my coat
Adorned with shiny buttons
Trolling you plebians
Button, button
Who’s got the button?
Me! Who wants chutney?
I am button-gurl
My buttons empower me
They give me big grins
There once was a lady from the Ton
Who Everyday craved stew of mutton
If the cook would forget
Upset she would get
And sulk in a coat full o’ button
oh lovely buttons
shiny bright all around me
need a bigger coat
Kate’s keen for buttons.
No matter gold, green or black.
So long as they shine.
When Debo Mitford who was to become Duchess of Devonshire was marrying in 1941 she wrote one of her sisters saying she was having a dress with “masses and masses and masses of tulle with a skirt so big the like had never been seen before”. She didn’t care if it was fashion but she liked it and it was what suited her. Kate obviously likes masses and masses and masses of buttons and couldn’t care less what anyone else thinks. Who wants to be a slave to fashion and wear something because everyone else is wearing it?
Duchess on parade
Led by marching rows of buttons
A keen display
I think Kate looks great. She has a healthy pregnancy glow and the little bit of extra weight makes her face look younger.
Kate’s penchant for buttons doesn’t bother me. I don’t find the buttons as obnoxious as those outlandish ugly hats that Beatrice and Eugenie wear to every formal occasion, LOL!
How about a limerick?
“There once was a Duchess named Kate
who found herself in quite a state.
Her closets were bare;
She had nothing to wear
Aside from coats with buttons the size of a plate.”
(Needs some work)
Zips togs and duffles
For commoners may be fine
But One needs buttons
Don’t be distracted
By black pants and messy buns
Buttons FTW
Not just for jackets
My finger on the Button
Of a great nation
Buttons are so keen
Round and bright and shiny gold
Tell me how they work
A button parade!
Up and down my bespoke coat
Meghan can suck it.
William loves buttons
Babies and buttons and me
Where is he today?
Yonder in the field
Wild buttons scamper in leaves
I will make them mine.
I think she’s going to have her baby sooner rather than later. Maybe, late March.
I think so too. And it’s a girl-I’m calling it now. Princess Victoria Mary.
The headline and header photo is brilliant😂 Made my day
You know what? There is at least one thing that I will appreciate Kate for, and it’s the fact that come what may, she sticks to what she wants. Homegirl doesn’t waver, come hell or high water. She wants to marry a prince and become Queen? She’s gonna fking do that. Wants to vacay at Mustique 8 months out of 12? It’s gonna fking happen. Wants three kids? Well, buckle the fk up Willy, because that’s that. And if she wants those motherf–king buttons, she’s gonna wear some gdamn motherf–king buttons, or so help her god.
I don’t like her much, but she’s always given me the impression that, in spite of seeming like a doormat, she’s actually more intelligent and crafty than people give her credit for sometimes. And she knows how to leverage that sh-t into getting exactly what she wants at all times. Because from what I can see, she’s got precisely the life that she wants, even if it’s not the life that we think she should have.
I hope she enjoys those buttons.
Katie loves buttons
She adorns the coats herself
Buttons are everywhere
Shiny and lovely
Sparkling gold silver and bronze
Buttons for Britain
This has to be the most fun post of 2018! Congrats to all the haiku-ers.
Not a big fan of haiku myself…………but I will say that coat is terrible, but Kate’s face and her side part in her hair look good. The buttons are just RIDICULOUS. We won’t see this coat again, mark my words.
Well we’ve got a vast array of buttons and the Doolittles are doing more…
The post title had me laughing. I’d agree that she’s trolling us, but I’m not sure she’s that savvy.
Buttons throw you off
You don’t notice jacked up eyes
And my keen wiglet
+2
and BUTTONS!