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"Dressing diplomatically and acknowledging one's host nation is a fashion tactic worth mastering ahead of a royal tour like the one the [Duchess Of Cambridge](https://www.tatler.com/gallery/the-duchess-of-cambridge-in-pictures) is about to embark on in Canada. Targeting must be precise - sometimes, for Kate, it's as simple as wearing one of the nation's homegrown designers or nodding to a symbolic leaf or two via some jewellery. But sometimes she will go all out, adopting a country's colours with such gusto that you might think she had woken up that morning and just decided to dress like a flag. Here are all the times she's nailed it for the nation…\n\nWearing Barbara Casasola ahead of the Rio Olympics, July 2016\n\nJust a month before the Rio Olympics kicked off, Kate threw a spotlight onto one of the country's brightest young designers, Brazilian-born, London-based Barbara Casasola. The dress patterns were inspired by the body art sported by Brazilian aboriginal tribes. All very clever.\n\n[#image: /photos/6141d8919ce9874a3e40150d]\n\n \n\nWearing Saloni to kick off her tour of India and Bhutan, April 2016\n\nA week before she headed off on her last tour, Kate chose to wear this dress by London- and Mumbai-based designer Saloni Lodha. She was meeting young natives from India and Bhutan at Kensington Palace and bridging the nations in one stylish swoop.\n\n[#image: /photos/6141d88e10040d2e309593e3]\n\n \n\nWearing Naeem Khan in India, April 2016\n\nAnother hit on the Indian adventure, Kate wore this dress by Indian-American designer Naeem Khan as she posed in front of the Taj Mahal. Khan later revealed that the print on the dress was actually inspired by Mexican textiles, rather than the temple's architecture. Oops. We think she's got away with it, though.\n\n[#image: /photos/6141d89031c5773d0834d9e7]\n\n \n\nWearing Emilia Wickstead in New Zealand, April 2014\n\nAs well as covering herself in as many fern leaves as possible for her arrival in New Zealand (there's a hat and a brooch to note), Kate made an even savvier choice, picking a standout frock by New Zealand-born, London-based designer Emilia Wickstead.\n\n[#image: /photos/6141d88e6f84b7629deaac08]\n\n \n\nWearing Jenny Packham in New Zealand, April 2014\n\nHaving exhausted all the designer names that New Zealand had to offer, Kate later returned to one of her go-to Brits, Jenny Packham, and asked her to stick a few fern leaves on her shoulder.\n\n[#image: /photos/6141d8902f0bb1a05b6d446a]\n\n \n\nWearing forest-green on St Patrick's Day, March 2012\n\nKate loves a bit of St Paddie's fun, evidenced by her favourite forest-green Emilia Wickstead coat and that Cartier shamrock brooch that she whips out of her jewellery box every year.\n\n[#image: /photos/6141d890223acea2b9fac014]\n\n \n\nWearing Erdem to arrive in Canada, June 2011\n\nKate stepped off the plane in Ottawa wearing a lace frock by none other than the Montreal-born designer Erdem Moralioglu, who shows at London Fashion Week. Fashion commentators were beside themselves.\n\n[#image: /photos/6141d89016e76df7934a7bfd]\n\n \n\nWearing red and white on Canada Day, July 2011\n\nKate went the full flag for her next look on that tour, teaming her white Reiss dress with a red hat by Sylvia Fletcher, topped off with a dozen maple-leaf emblems. Well, what did you expect - it was Canada Day...\n\n[#image: /photos/6141ef29791b993582d1d595]\n\n \n\nWearing Diane von Furstenberg in Los Angeles, July 2011\n\nArriving in Los Angeles, Kate decided to sport one of America's biggest designer names, Diane von Furstenberg, for her first engagement in the city. 'Talk about arriving in style!' DvF would later write about the moment on her blog.\n\n[#image: /photos/6141d88f742b9948e80c6889]\n\n \n\nWearing Alexander McQueen on her wedding day, June 2011\n\nThe most carefully considered of all her ensembles, Kate's Alexander McQueen wedding dress did a good service to many. She HAD to wear a British designer. It HAD to be handcrafted by local lace-makers. Can you even imagine the outrage if she had chosen to have a fling with a Parisian label on her big day?\n\n[#image: /photos/6141d891239701554441d1e9]\n\n \n\nWearing Goldsign flare jeans in Calgary, July 2011\n\nAmerican jeans? Check. Rhinestone-buckle belt? Check. Full-on rodeo hat with very real risk of Stetson-hat hair? Check. Here are Calamity Kate and Wild Wills on tour in 'Cow town' Calgary, Canada. When in Rome…\n\n[#image: /photos/6141d891e2598f5f2d8d2e05]\n\n[#gallery: /galleries/6141d16410040d2e30958d76][#gallery: /galleries/6141ce47e00e3d8849bfdcae]"
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