Diamond jubilee: 60 years of the Queen's style - in pictures

Aged 25 at her coronation in 1953, Lizzy looked young but in full command of her duties as Queen. That's what carrying the royal sceptre as a fashion accessory does for your look, frankly Photograph: AFP/Getty Images From the cinched waist to the full skirt, if there was ever a photo that epitomised Christian Dior's 'New Look', it's this (even if it was taken at the opening of Gatwick Airport in 1958) Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images One colour the Queen has always been drawn to is buttercup. Here she is at the Epsom Downs Racecourse, 1960, in a yellow swing jacket look with oversized buttons - very Marc Jacobs. Clearly, HRH invented fierce years before the word was appropriated by the masses as a fashion byword Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images Little dogs became something of a fashion accessory in the mid-2000s, but here's the Queen at Liverpool Street Station in 1968 with two of her pet Corgis making knee-length fur work with ankle-height animal accessories Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Home counties tweed, mud-coloured tights and tassled lace-ups say 'gran's day out' in 1975. But the posture, head scarf and folded arms say one thing: SWAG Photograph: Serge Lemoine/Getty Images This is the Queen doing fun in the early 1980s - colour blocking and an oversized lapel. The gloves are, unusually, black, presumably because she didn't want to turn up in the same gloves as the guards. Can you imagine the embarrassment? Photograph: Tim Graham/Getty Images Photograph: Tim Graham/Tim Graham/Getty Images It's a modest, almost coy, pose for the official silver jubilee portrait in 1977, but she knows she's winning in this rather Miu Miu-esque applique dress. Plus, she actually gets to wear that cape Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images A classic Queen look from 1997: powder blue bouclé skirt suit and, of course, co-ordinating hat and gloves. Someone was a bit stingy with the flowers though, weren't they? Photograph: Tim Graham/Getty Images Photograph: Tim Graham/Tim Graham/Getty Images The Queen in 1986 doing that paint splat X leopard print pattern whilst American Apparel and Nike were still embryos Photograph: Tim Graham/Getty Images Photograph: Tim Graham/Tim Graham/Getty Images This 1997 look is so Miuccia Prada. The best thing about foreign state visits (we imagine) is that they're an excuse to go a bit more 'out there' with the outfits. Top to toe gold plus the watch worn over white gloves? Liz be killin' em Photograph: Tim Graham/Getty Images Photograph: Tim Graham/Tim Graham/Getty Images It's 2009 and the look is opulent fur trip cape, gold shoes and matching bag. Philip knows who's boss Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images In her favourite colour, buttercup yellow again, this time at the royal wedding in 2011. The moment when she whipped off the blanket in the back of the car to reveal this ensemble is one of our favourite fashion reveals of all time Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images