Obligatory Oscar fashion post
Last night I missed the Oscars entirely. No great loss. But I had to catch up with my favorite part—pretty much my only favorite part—the fashions.
In keeping with the topsy-turvy nature of today’s world, this “best” and “worst” selection seemed utterly arbitrary. Some of the “best” were good and some awful; some of the “worst” were bad and some good.
Fitting, isn’t it?
So here I present just a couple of examples.
Here’s a “worst” that is pretty bad, although by no means the very worst. Heidi, Heidi, what were you thinking? I think she may have been thinking “this is what we wear to a tea party in 2016.” A real tea party, not a political one. If so, she should rethink:
Here’s a “best” that’s lovely, classic and a bit retro, not too exposed but still showing off the body:
But why was this perfectly acceptable and really rather pleasant gown considered a “worst”? Nothing especially special but flattering and timeless:
And while we’re at it, why would this be a “best”? It looks like it’s designed to make a beautiful woman look as bad as possible:
That last one reminds me of this.
I didn’t watch but about 10 minutes of the telecast, long enough to wonder just how far south the back of Rachel McAdams’ dress extended. Or how far the lack of dress extended, actually.
But you made me curious enough to check some of the celeb pics from last night on a frou-frou site (Tom and Lorenzo). And I have to say that imo the two leading contenders for the best actress award, Brie Larson and Saoirse Ronan, showed taste to match their acting skills.
Most of these make me wish for the days when Jackie Kennedy was our country’s style setter.
Do these gals think we’ve forgotten that they have breasts ?
Also, get a load of their facial demeanor.
They dress like sluts and scowl like dykes.
Strange, just strange.
The second one is a copy of Madame X’s famous gown.
Richard Saunders:
Not quite.
Speaking solely for myself, I want the fair sex to leave a bit more to my imagination. I prefer a more private unveiling. I still enjoy after 47.5 years watching Mrs. parker slowly undress.
We were at my daughter’s when it was showing. I spent a lot of time in the backyard trying to get the old Lab to play ball. She has given that up.
But, I saw enough of the gown styles to tell my 19 year old grandson to cover his eyes. That got more laughs from his Mother and Grandmother than Rock’s racial rants. Actually, on second thought they were guffaws.
I agree with Parker.
The Fug Girls are better arbitrators of fashion, imo.
They also liked Tina and Jennifer G. & didn’t like Heidi. Don’t recall if they remarked on Olivia.
gofugyourself.com
May be the are ready next time to Posed Nude for Students, at Brooklyn Museum
Tina Fey’s dress is the best in my eyes out of those that were posted. It’s a lovely deep shade of purple and I like the drape it has over her body. The rest look like they’re wearing drapes from their McMansions. Olivia Wilde’s dress looks like her breasts are being suffocated and smashed.
Of those I’ve seen outside this site, I will say that Saoirse Ronan’s dress was rather lovely (as well as her Golden Globe dress).
I never watch the Oscars (or the Grammys, or any other awards ceremony). I rarely even know who has won. Show-biz awards are subject to the rules of the world of show-biz, and I approach cinema from the other direction, that of art.
I’m also uninterested in what even very attractive young women look like in these unnatural dresses, worn once and then discarded. These kinds of get-ups have nothing to do with how anyone looks in real life.
I once won an award for one of my novels, and sitting in the audience waiting to see if I was going to be humiliated or exalted was one of the most stressful experiences I’ve ever gone through in my life. This was the final award of the evening — everything built up to this. There was plenty of reason to believe that I might lose… and I would’ve felt annihilated and deeply insulted if that had been the result.
But I won.
Neo — I meant copy in the fashion sense, not in the Xerox sense. Maybe “knock-off” would have been a better term. Obviously, suspension technology has improved greatly over the last century.
I have to agree with Neo on all four pictures. Jennifer Garner can’t look bad, but she does look very nice here. And Tina Fey – I saw in the slide show that they were making fun of her for being dressed the same as Reese Witherspoon (who didn’t look particularly good), so maybe that was the problem. The slide show was pretty funny with the men, who of course all looked the same in tuxes. (Except, actually, some of them looked a little short in the sleeve length. Is that supposed to look good?)
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