Meghan Markle Makes A Case For Tonal Dressing In Her First Public Appearance In 2020

It’s only the seventh day of January, but it looks like Meghan Markle already has a style manifesto for 2020 - head-to-toe tonal. For her first public appearance of the new decade, visiting Canada House to thank staff for their country’s welcome during her family's Christmas holiday, the Duchess of Sussex chose a single-breasted beige coat, a copper-coloured polo neck, a silky chocolate brown skirt and her favourite Jimmy Choo heels in rust.

The Duchess took the opportunity to show her loyalty to the high street, wearing Reiss's Sable coat, sold out in beige but still available in black, and a £89.95 skirt by Massimo Dutti.

Wearing top-to-toe colour, often in a spectrum of shades, is a sartorial tic well-loved by the royals. The Queen rarely fails to coordinate her hat with her outfit, while Meghan herself chose a navy hat, coat, gloves and knee-high boots for Westminster Abbey’s Field of Remembrance opening as recently as November.

Meghan’s colour range of choice for today’s appearance - easy-on-the-eye shades of tan and tobacco - is bang on the money for this season. Bottega Veneta’s SS20 collection featured knit dresses in autumnal two-tones, as well as textured separates and vinyl trenches in earthy red-brown, while street-stylers like Tiffany Hsu are already wearing their camel with caramel-coloured boots. It's official - brown is anything but boring.

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