Kate Middleton Goes Back to School in Plaid McQueen Dress

It’s official: Kate Middleton can make anything look chic — even a school uniform.
After rocking bangs with panache earlier in the week, the Duchess of Cambridge made plaid look posh again on a visit to St. Andrews, her former elementary school, on Friday.
Paying tribute to St. Andrews’ colors, Middleton gave the uniform she wore from 1986 to 1995 a chic update in a navy-and-emerald plaid Alexander McQueen dress.

While Olivia Palermo, Emma Stone, and Kristen Stewart have tried the tartan trend in small doses with just a plaid blazer or pants, Middleton went all-out plaid for the return to her old stopping grounds.
And yet there was no mistaking Middleton’s McQueen for a school girl uniform or for dowdy schoolteacher garb — even as she played a game of field hockey in her dress and heels.
By reimagining the preppy pattern on the season’s hot A-line silhouette, the look was chic yet ladylike, just like the princess.