Not Wearing Skirt Weights and Stockings Royal women typically wear stockings at all public events, and for outdoor events where wind might be an issue, the queen started a tradition of weighting dress hems to avoid any possible skirt flips. But in 2011, the newly married Duchess of Cambridge broke both rules on a trip to Canada, by being spotted arriving on a windy runway without stockings and with a lightweight dress rippling in the wind. Image Source: Getty / Samir Hussein