{"id":9387,"date":"2017-10-04T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/04\/the-replikates-kate-middletons-high-concept-lookalikes\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T15:55:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:55:35","slug":"the-replikates-kate-middletons-high-concept-lookalikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=9387","title":{"rendered":"The repliKates: Kate Middleton&#039;s high-concept lookalikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Duchess of Cambridge has a cohort of fans spending thousands to look like her, and we wouldn\u2019t have known had Instagram not inadvertently banned themAs the saying runs, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. By this logic, then, the Duchess of Cambridge should be thrilled: she has inspired a movement of copycat sycophants.It\u2019s a high-stakes hobby: yesterday, it was reported that around half a dozen bloggers who regularly share photographs of themselves on Instagram dressed like Kate Middleton had had their accounts closed by the site, seemingly without explanation. The subsequent outcry alerted the general public to the fact that such a movement existed at all; we also discovered that members of this \u2013 mainly US \u2013 cohort call themselves \u201ccopyKates\u201d or \u201crepliKates\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/shortcuts\/2017\/oct\/04\/replikates-kate-middletons-high-concept-lookalikes\" target=\"_blank\">The repliKates: Kate Middleton&#039;s high-concept lookalikes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duchess of Cambridge has a cohort of fans spending thousands to look like her, and we wouldn\u2019t have known had Instagram not inadvertently banned themAs the saying runs, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. By this logic, then, the Duchess of Cambridge should be thrilled: she has inspired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}