Hollywood royalty and their clothes are favorite fodder for stylewatchers.

	Steve Helber/Associated Press Queen Elizabeth II carries no risk of a wardrobe malfunction. Click photo for larger image.

Yet, when a bona-fide queen comes to these shores -- with pieces from one of the largest privately owned jewelry collections in tow -- we barely take notice of her wardrobe.

Why? It's simple: Queen Elizabeth II is extremely proper. She dresses exactly as she's expected to for each occasion with no risk of a wardrobe malfunction.

Sass Brown, a fashion design professor at Manhattan's Fashion Institute of Technology, describes what's become her uniform: a slightly A-line coat, most likely in a pastel color with contrast stitching; a coordinated hat; a below-the-knee dress; a brooch; and a traditional, triangular handbag.

"She's terribly well known for having a specific sense of style," says Brown, who could outline the queen's outfits without even looking through the dozens of photographs of her visits to Virginia, Kentucky and Washington.

Her sense of style is right in line with that of other 81-year-old women of a certain pedigree, she says.

"Her lack of influence is a reflection of her age," Brown says.

When she was younger, the queen was considered a beauty, although never a fashion icon in the way Princess Diana, her late former daughter-in-law, would become, recalls Brown, who was raised in England.

For her coronation in 1953, Queen Elizabeth II wore a gown with a sweetheart neckline, nipped waist and full skirt, which was very much in line with the look of that era, albeit on the conservative side. And the queen has always been a booster of British designers, especially Norman Hartnell, who was her favorite couturier until his death in 1975.

"She championed British designers in the old style, in the tailored sense of British style," Brown says.

"Elizabeth comes from an old and traditional heritage, where it was not acceptable for a lady to go out without a hat or a pair of gloves. It would be like going out without stockings!" Brown says, with a laugh.

She adds: "Clearly the younger royals don't adhere to that."

Elizabeth II's claim to fame is her consistency.

For her tour of Jamestown, Va., this month, the queen wore a teal blue coat with light blue trim, a teal blue hat, black gloves, pearl earrings and a pearl necklace.

At the Kentucky Derby, she had on a pistachio green coat with gold buttons, a red bow-tie hat with a green brim, white gloves, pearl earrings and a pearl necklace.

To the rare white-tie state dinner in her honor at the White House, she turned up in a white beaded scoop-neck gown with three-quarter sleeves worn with long white gloves and a blue sash. But for this special occasion, she traded in her pearls for a heavy dose of diamonds -- tiara and all.

Toilet paper gown contest

A prize of $500 awaits the winner of a contest to fashion a wedding gown from bathroom tissue.

The third annual Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest kicks off June 1. Digital photos of entries are due by July 31, and there's no entry fee.

Tape, glue and toilet paper are the only materials allowed. The contest is sponsored by operators of the Web site cheap-chic-weddings.com. Rules are posted on the site, and entries will be posted there for public viewing.

Food and fragrance

Food ingredients have long been a component in personal fragrances, with desserts and other sweets inspiring a new generation of smells-good-enough-to-eat scents in recent years.

Now, some companies are peddling candy-inspired perfumes.

Demeter, known for eerily authentic scents ranging from Laundromat and dirt to sugar cookie and Play Doh, is adding six Jelly Belly jellybean-inspired scents to its fragrance library: Blueberry Muffin, Wild Blackberry Peach Cobbler, Hot Fudge Sundae, Mango Pineapple Salsa, Fruit Salad and Sugar and Spice.

Cologne sprays, concentrated "calming" lotions and foaming bath-shower gels in each flavor range from $11.50 to $39.50 at Sephora, Ulta, victoriassecret.com and demeterfragrance.com.

Meanwhile, May and June are big months for new prestige fragrance launches. Two sexy unisex scents are Bond No. 9 New York's Coney Island, which combines margarita mix, caramel, chocolate and cedarwood ($120) at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Creed's Virgin Island Water, a cocktail of coconut, lime, orange zest and musk ($98) at Saks and Schiller's Pharmacy in Shadyside.

Gucci Pour Homme II, with notes of cinnamon and tobacco leaves, and Lacoste Elegance, infused with thyme, dark chocolate and mandarin zest, are $50 each at Saks in June.