The Denim Queen: How Kate Middleton has reignited skinny jeans trend with fashion that is accessible to us all

If you have banished your skinny jeans to the back of the wardrobe, make sure you get them out right now! Forget what the fashion experts have said about them being ‘old news’ Kate Middleton has just shown that they are anything but by wearing them in her annual Christmas card.

For their latest Christmas card both Kate and William are ‘dressed down’ in jeans.

Although the whole world is used to seeing a glamorous Kate in designer dresses at red carpet events, this is clearly a more deliberate move by Kate and William to show how relatable they are.

As Vogue comments, “we all thought the days of spray-on-pants were over.” However, for Kate, and for her legions of style fans, it seems that this is no longer the case.

‘Skinny jeans’ appear to have been a fashion staple of Kate’s over the years and very much go to a relaxed look.

She has worn them at numerous events over the years, including a tour in Canada and a trip to Wales this year.

Denim is not a fabric you normally associate with the Royal family, but it is one that Kate’s late mother-in-law, Princess Diana, wore many times.

When Princess Diana separated from the then Prince Charles (now King Charles III), she reinvented her life as well as her wardrobe.

Many have said that ‘no one did denim better’ than Princess Diana and I couldn’t agree more with this.

Diana even wore denim when she went skiing in Austria in 1993, which was seen as quite a rebellious decision even then.

However, why Diana and denim worked so well is that it made her accessible to the masses and it was undeniably refreshing.

This accessibility factor is clearly what Kate and William are keen on capitalising on in 2022 and wearing denim is an easy way of achieving that.