Think back to Wimbledon 2016. Pippa Middleton Matthews seemed to relish watching the match while holding up her end of a relaxed conversation with her brother, James Middleton. Yet, as Entertainment Tonight described it, Pippa "nearly flashes Wimbledon crowd in super short dress." What had actually happened? Pippa, who wore a lightweight, white dress with a floral design, had simply tried to straighten her twisted skirt while remaining seated, which, as anyone who's ever worn a summer frock understands, is a difficult task to do gracefully.
For Pippa, this inelegant moment was captured in a photograph, that headline writers tried to turn into something it wasn't: an embarrassing bid for sexual attention. But context, as they say, is everything: Look at additional photos run in the Daily Mail and you'll see that her dress was actually knee length. She didn't deserve the salacious headline for either the choice of dress or the maneuver to straighten it.
Pippa, rightfully so, laughed off the incident.
