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Thursday, September 22, 2011 

Pippa Middleton cuts London Fashion Week short

Sarah McInerney

The long and the short of it ... Front row a the Temperley runway show. Pippa Middleton is seated in the middle. Photo: Getty

It seems the newly-titled Duchess isn't the only Middleton sister to be copping flak from the fashion police.

Kate's little sister Pippa Middleton raised a few eyebrows at the Alice Temperley show at London Fashion Week on Monday for the thigh-baring length of her dress.

The skirt fell tastefully above the knee when standing but when sitting in her coveted front row seat, it rose so high it gave photographers "an eyeful" of leg, reported The Washington Post.

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Front row at the Sass & Bide show ... Bonnie Wright, Peaches Geldof, Poppy Delevigne and Paloma Faith are all pictured. Photo: Getty

A "rookie mistake" was their assessment. A "fashion faux pas" was the verdict of The Daily Mail.
But short skirts and outrageous fashions have been out in force at London's showings of the spring/summer 2012 collections.

Fashion writers might err on the side of conservatism at these events, case-in-point Anna Wintour, but that doesn't constrain those seeking to further their public profile through best dressed lists and celebrity style pages.

Never mind the shock value, what about the temperature? Two of these guests appear to have BYO'd a blanket to the House of Holland show. Photo: Reuters

Peaches Geldof left less to the imagination than Middleton at the Sass + Bide show. In fact, no one sitting across from her would have been left in any doubt about the colour of her underpants.

Pamela Anderson and Harry Potter's Bonnie Wright all took the length well above the knee. As indeed did three of the women sitting next to Middleton at the Temperley show, including actress Rosario Dawson.

It seems the 'royal' blinkers gave these ladies a reprieve from this fashion-lashing.

What do you think? Is there an unwritten fashion rule that front row guests shouldn't overshadow the designs they are there to see? Or is the length of Pippa Middleton's dress just right?