Dress raises the question: Has Sofia closed the door to the maternity wardrobe?

There are maternity dresses – and then there are maternity dresses. Not many people have the luxury of wearing Oscar de la Renta while their belly grows. Today, the brand’s upper level of party dresses with lace costs around SEK 85,000. If you want a custom-made one, it will of course be even more expensive.

But if you’re a princess and you’re going to the Nobel banquet, you should wear one maternity dress model more luxurious. When Princess Sofia Expected her first child in 2015, Prince Alexander was born in April 2016, so the choice fell on a midnight blue dress with lace on the waist and an effective openwork detail on the skirt from Oscar de la Renta. The dress made room for the pregnant belly, which was clearly visible.

Princess Sofia and the 2015 Nobel laureate in physics, Takaaki Kajita, during the Nobel banquet. Photo: Charles Hammarsten/TT

Sofia wore the dress with her hair up and her private tiara, the wedding gift from King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia. That time with the original green emeralds at the top of the tiara’s tips (which are shaped like leaves).

Prince Carl Philip, Princess Sofia, Chris O’Neill and behind him Princess Madeleine can be seen. Photo: Charles Hammarsten/TT / TT NEWS AGENCY

We interpret it as Sofia has closed the door to the maternity wardrobe

When the royal couple invited the Finnish presidential couple to a gala dinner Alexander Stubb and Suzanne Innes-Stubb this week Princess Sofia made an entrance with her husband in a look we recognize: Nobel’s most luxurious maternity dress had been re-sewn to fit the mother of three without growing belly. We interpret it as Sofia has closed the door to the maternity wardrobe, and now sewed the dress so it can be used again.

Princess Sofia and Prince Carl Philip at the gala dinner for the Finnish presidential couple. Photo: STELLA PICTURES

To change her look, in addition to the fact that the stomach is now not a player, Sofia now wore her hair down and true to her habit, she had changed the stones on her wedding tiara. Sofia has several sets of stones and pearls that she switches between to change the look of the tiara. This time, dark drop-shaped stones were found on the leaves of the tiara.