Consider my enthusiasm curbed:
I hate this so much. The color is great, and from the front it looks lovely, but I seriously hate the back. This sort of thing can be done, but it has to be done carefully, or you look like a junior level figure skater who's lost her way. Remember Cate Blanchett in that amazing Galliano hummingbird dress? This one:
That's how you do formal back shenanigans. It's whimsical, but it's understated.
This is neither whimsical, NOR understated:
This looks like the formal gown version of the alphabet icing you buy in the Baking Sundries aisle at Vons. You know. This stuff:
Add that to the fact that her Back Icing looks like the shiny, crazed smile of the fearsome Three-Eyed Jewel Monster, and I find myself, frankly, creeped out by the entire thing.
