Frocken' hell! Dresses to Di for!

Take a look at the digitally-created images on this page and we dare you to argue that Princess Diana, Queen of Hearts, would still not have the ability to stop a crowd dead in its tracks in some of her most loved outfits!
At right is how Diana would shape up now in arguably her most favourite gown, a gorgeously understated satin number that she glowingly graced during her life - not just once but TWICE!
Even now, you can still imagine Diana charming the pants off male admirers with this bone-hugging floor-length pale-blue and silver outfit. During her painfully short yet community-minded life, Diana stunned the fashion world by wearing this charmingly expensive creation to not one, but two of her favourite charities: the Victims of Polo annual gala ball in London in 1991 and the final night ball of the Celebrity Palsy Association's international convention in Paris less than two months later. In doubling up, Diana was unselfishly saying to all women throughout the world: "Look, if you've paid through the nose for that special gown, don't be embarrassed to trot it out more than once! I'm not ashamed to wear the same dress twice - and I'm not even paying for it!"
Pictured below left is the still-radiant Diana as she would have appeared several years ago at a gala for another of her favourite charities.
Fashion experts say this charming lime-green 24 carat diamond-sequined raw silk, kneecap showing outfit - worth an estimated $750,000 if there had ever been a buyer - looks even better on Diana now than when she first brought involuntary gasps of appreciation from the crowd of well-wishers who had waited patiently for hours on a hot summer's night in central London in 1994 to see their beloved Princess arrive outside the international headquarters of the Christian Dior-betes Foundation.
The outfit was unselfishly donated to charity by the Princess only months before her death to make more room in her wardrobe.
And at right is another absolute stunner, a mind-blowing number Diana first wore as a recently married woman when she travelled to Vienna in September 1991 to officially open the International Genetics Symposium: Are Big Ears Necessarily Hereditary?
In a tribute to the ability of the mother of the future King of England to regain her adolescent curves so soon after having her two princes, Diana also wore this outfit in the late 1980s to the annual dance of the Society for Telegenic Diseases, with only minimal alterations and, naturally enough, new precious gem inlays.

So what was Diana saying through her fashion!

A recent four-page, full colour article in the Sunday Mail by British royal observer Georgina Howell claimed Princess Diana "used her clothes to tell the world what she was going through".
After an extensive examination of archival photos, The Bug can confirm Howell's hypothesis.
For example, the bright blue dress worn by Lady Diana Spencer for her official engagement photos told the world she was going through the first flush of true love.
The very severe and formal suits worn during her last official engagements with Prince Charles told the world she was going through a tumultuous period of change and reassessment.
The very short and revealing off-the-shoulder cocktail frocks favoured by the people's princess at the time of her divorce told the world she was going through rugby players and regimental types at a rate of knots.
And most tragically, a look at the security film taken at the Paris Ritz on her last fateful night on earth reveals that by wearing flat shoes, a cashmere jacket and light slacks, Princess Diana was telling the world she was about to go through the windscreen of a Mercedes-Benz.