Unfug It Up: Katie Cassidy

I would have either the skirt black, or the top white with the black trim. It is a cute outfit though!

The skirt needs to go. I wish the top just extended to become an a-line dress.

1) The only ok thing about this skirt is the color, and not with the color of the top. It goes.

2) That top, while a gorgeous color, is an underthing. Honey, put on a dress.

The top looks too much like underwear for me. I'd make the skirt a dress and maybe tone down the poof.

Sorry--I'm so distracted by the alternating black/white nail polish...

Same skirt with a white, linen-y, 3/4 sleeve blouse.

And a manicure.

I would like the top with a nice tailored suit, but that skirt cannot be justified.

The alternating black and white nail polish is total fug. I could maybe handle it if the outfit were black and white. While I am no fan of either piece of this ensemble, if forced to choose I would keep the skirt and bag the top. Replace the top with a strappy camisole the color of the skirt.

Is she wearing black AND white nail polish?
Next.

This one is a little tricky to fix.

My first thought was swap the skirt for something purple and more slim, but that might make the top look more like lingerie than it already does.

Then I thought make the top solid pink like the skirt. Can we all agree that that would veer into "twee"?

Now I've landed on make the skirt black. I'm not entirely sold on the shape of the skirt, but I guess beggars can't be choosers.

No, no, no. The shirt is underwear. The skirt is ridiculous. She looks like she threw on the bottom half of her clown suit over her pole dancing outfit. Only solution is to start from scratch here.

The whole thing is dreadful, God bless her.

OK, I'm a HUGE fan of corsets, let me just say (maybe that's TMpersonalI), but there's a reason they're called "UNDERwear." Gosh, peeps. So, if she's determined to keep that skirt....let's put a nice, maybe poet-ruffly white linen blouse, as the Gentle Poster above suggests. I'm not wild about the color, but it can work with the blond's palette. The ruffles need to relax just a skosh, though, and, Modest Millie that I am, I would go a couple of inches longer.

And why, oh why would she ruin an otherwise lovely hair/makeup thing with the nailpolish of a 5th grader???

I think I would have remembered to put on a blouse.

A simple black or dove grey sleeveless top, the underwear top has to go.

The skirt is so out there that it really needs to be paired with a simple black top. And I don't think I will ever support underwear as outerwear. Corsets are for the bedroom or under wedding dresses. The nailpolish also needs help.

how about a WAIST?

The skirt is awful! Seriously. I like the colour, but hate the design. The top looks like lingerie. And it doesn't match the skirt. So BOTH need to go. Not forgetting about her nail colours: WTF? Oh honey, NO!

Call me odd, but I actually kind of love the entire look...barring the nail polish. That is the only thing I would change.

Love Katie and think she's absolutely adorable, but I would nix that skirt totally. It's cute, but it looks a little tight on her (and she's tiny, so that's hard to imagine) and a little twee for the 'seriousness' of the top. That skirt with a bubbly top on Selena Gomez, yes. That skirt on Amanda Woodward 2.0, no. I'd go with a short black straight or flared skirt.

I'm baffled that his even merits an "unfug it up" column. Total fug that should be filed under "look into clothes".

A corset TUCKED IN? Hmm, no. I have a thing for skirts and even more so for ruffles so I would opt to keep that and pair it with a loose neutral colored tank tucked in to get that chic high waist, flouncy top thing. Nix the nail polish and tats, too.

Frankly, if I were her stylist, I would start over. The top is boring and looks so much like underwear I'm wondering if there's a matching eye-burn orange top to go with the skirt that she just forgot to put on, because she was too busy painting her fingernails black and white and chuckling at her own nail-based, style-free ingenuity.

And the only thing that could save that skirt is the liberal application of fire. It's hideous.

I actually do not mind the constrasting color of the skirt, but I hate is how high-wasted it is. That combined with the fact that she is wearing the corset top tucked into the skirt makes her look like her midsection is 4 inches long. I think the whole outfit would be better if the skirt sat a few inches lower on her waist and the corset top was left untucked.

Just start over!
She looks like a dance hall girl being swallowed by an evil orange ingenue-eating tulip! And you didn't even mention the alternating
B/W fingernails... aaaagggh!
If ever anyone needed to call Arianne Phillips, it's this child.

I think she should go home, change into baggy old sweats, sit on the couch and eat potato chips while watching reruns. Neither part of that should have left the house. There's no saving it. During commercials she could pick at her nail polish and cry over her sartorial sins.

What was this poor girl thinking!? This look is total fug! The top would be super cute if worn with baggy tuxedo pants and fitted jacket, preferably in black.

The skirt matches the original carpeting in my mother's house. I never dreamed that there could be a poorer use of the color until now.

i agree that the two parts are not bad independently - they just don't work at all together. I'd say keep the skirt with a white button down blouse OR keep the top with a black pencil skirt. shoes and bag are adorable so they can stay.

Regular People can't pull off that corset as outerwear, but Amanda Woodward 2.0 is just fine. She just needs to take off that ridiculous skirt and trade for a black pencil skirt and it's great.

Also, for the record, Peggy is totally prime for a wig-ripping, building exploding moment, and Sterling would definitely be kidnapping Joan. Just saying.

She should just go change.

I don't like the top or the skirt. She needs to rewind to back before she even got dressed for this event, back to when she told her manicurist that she wanted to do black AND white nail polish and rethink all her decisions from there. Hair and makeup look great...just everything from the neck down needs to completely be changed.

I actually dont mind either as well, I wouldnt even mind the top if it were just all white and just cotton or if the bottom was black. The skirt is adorable.

maybe she is colorblind?!?!

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This is godawful: the skirt, the top, the fingernails. All of it. The only unfugging possible is a completely different outfit. If I had to pick one piece to keep, it would be the bustier top. She could wear it with leather pants or a slim pencil skirt. Even then, I'm not so sure.

The skirt doesn't fit. If it was bigger, it would sit lower and not look nearly as ridiculous. And not to veer too off topic, but OMG I remember fashion plates. Best toy ever.

Oh my goodness, the whole thing is fug. Colors don't even make sense! Bag the whole outfit and grab a LBD so the polish makes sense.

I'm just too old to get behind lingerie-as-shirt. Let's remove all the black lacy stuff that's making it look bedroomy, magically dye the skirt to the same eggplant shade as the top, and call it good!

The skirt wings are odd, but I can work with a little novelty. What I can't tolerate are the white/black fingernails. What is she, 10?

Megan, my old set of fashion plates is sitting here right now, so my daughter can play with it!

I actually love the skirt. I think it's interesting and fun, and could definitely be the foundation of a modern, whimsical look. But the awful corset needs to go, I would swap it for a simple, loose, elegant black tank top with good quality fabric maybe with sequins. The nail polish undoubtedly need to go too.

It can't be saved.
She forgot her shirt and is wearing a skirt that appears to be made of neoprene. My recommendation?
Step one - remove everything she is wearing
Step two - put on something else.

I'm no fan of either piece, but if one must work with what's here, I would fix the waist so it doesn't make a bulge (what is she a size zero, how is bulge possible?) and layer the sheerest, simplest, most well made of button down blouses in the palest, most flesh colored version of pink (that's still in the same color family as the skirt) over it. Hopefully that would tie the colors together, mitigate twee and still allow her to work her corset. (blouse as scrim, if you will). Lengthen the skirt, get a nude manicure and possibly cream satin the shoes and clutch to let the purple corset "choice" stand alone. Maybe add small natural crystal drop earrings. I guess it would be sort of Madonna cum Stevie Nicks version 2.0. .

As others have basically noted, I'd toss back a venti Grey Goose martini, banish all of this to the back of her closet (or the new "90210", whichever you consider worse), and head back to Fred Segal for a fresh start.

Except for her cheekbones - now *those* I'd keep. Any chance Fred carries those too?

Forgot to add - can we also talk about the fugly rumpled tinfoil thing that is so prominently featured on the side adds for "The City." The woman in the front looks like she's wearing my car's old sun visor.

Perhaps i'm crazy...but i actually love the outfit as is!

However, I do have serious issue with the black and white nails! Should have stuck with just black!

A black tutu, a top hat and moustache and she'd make an excellent ringmasteress (not mistress, because of afore-mentioned 'tache). She should of course have a splendid whip and a bucket of popcorn too. Yippee!

I like the color of the corset. I'm not entirely against fake corsets (well she's not using it if it is a real one) as outerwear but I just don't think she has the figure to pull it off. I personally would get rid of the black detail in the center of the corset.

Either than that... I don't know. I guess I would want to make it interesting than just a black aline skirt. Black and white nails aren't going to cut it nor that skirt. I would pair it with a long purple/black striped pencil skirt if the corset is longer than what I see it now and I would keep the heels. Something needs to go over the corset but not entirely cover it up because if I were wearing that I would get cold.

Eh.

i think she looks great from the waist up....
love the color, and i think her hair looks nice and suits her....
from the waist down, its not so good
i dont mind contrasting colors, but i'd have done something snazzy but maybe more subdued (peacock blue, royal blue, black)
the finger nails suck...so silly...

Yeah, nail varnish has to either go or MATCH.
At the absolute least put a wider belt on that or just throw on a shirt - something nicely fitted and with capped sleeves (she can pull them off, right?)
The purple and, is that orange? clash a bit too much for my liking. Either go gothy and change the skirt or go pastel and change the skirt.
And while we're talking about the skirt? Either have floaty and twirly OR have fitted and pencil-like. Don't try to mix them - it obviously doesn't work!

I would dye the skirt into the same color purple and remove the flouncy beauty and the beast trim from the bottom of the skirt. Hell, I'd probably just make it into a strapless corset dress.

The whole problem could be fixed by replacing her with a picture of Don Draper immediately!

The skirt might be excusable if the waist wasn't at least an inch and a half too small (seriously, honey, that's going to leave a mark). And there's nothing the matter with the top except the color, the fit, and the fact it looks like part of a cheap Hallowe'en costume.

Also, the nail polish would only work if it was worn with some spiffy Harlequin patterned something, and definitely not with cantelope and Welch's Grape Juice Stain (only pair fruit colors when the fruits already taste good together, people!) pieces.

So: the top in an actual couture version in a lemon or peach or even honeydew, the skirt a size larger or with the closure properly fitted, and nails in anything other than piebald.

(The shoes are merely boring and would be better not black, and the hair and face are refreshingly life-like).

The whole problem could be fixed by replacing her with a picture of Don Draper immediately!

Heinous. The skirt looks like it is in the mid stages of explosion and baby's breath and plastic unicorn statues are about to shower her feet. I know I'm grasping here, but I can't help imagining a highly twee pinata just about to let loose its goods.

On that note, I agree with alison's comment above.

AAaahhhh!!! My eyes! My eyes!

Top: Fug

Bottom: Fug

Nails: Fug

Honestly? This looks like something I would have put together from my dress-up box when I was 7.

OMG Alison, you are so right about the fug in the ad on the side. Are we allowed to comment on that? It's paying the fugging bills and won't be there later when people are reading the archives. But trust me, future readers, the dress in the ad is so fugly that it makes Amanda 2.0 look well dressed by comparison, instead of like she got dressed in the dark by grabbing the first two things she found in the closet and forgot that the other day when she was babysitting her fourth-grader niece they played beauty parlor with the manicure set.

As for Amanda, keep the hair and makeup and start everything else over from the top. With a top.

I say the change the skirt (and nail polish!) to black and we have a winner.

I just realized -- purple and orange -- she's a Clemson fan.

Oh, help.

No, that does not make me feel any better about this outfit. Why would such a lovely woman DO that to herself? In PUBLIC?

The skirt would be fine if she were nine. The top would be fine if she were a madam in the Klondike.

Both are horrible, whether paired together or not. There is nothing that can be done to unfug this other than to burn both pieces. Horrible!

I think the top would look really cute with a black suit. Or if it were extended all the way down into a sort of retro mini-dress like something Dita Von Tess would wear, maybe add a shrug. The skirt should be burned, it is horrible.

It looks like she got distracted in the middle of dressing and left without putting on her top. I can't help feeling that there is a coordinating blazer sitting abandoned in a dressing room somewhere.
Since she apparently wanted to let the bustier show, I say go get a nice tailored black pants suit and wear that instead of the pink skirt. Wear the WHOLE suit. Even the blazer.

I would fix her nail polish. I would change the color of the skirt to black and since that wouldn't be possible the skirt has to go and to be honest I don't like the top either but it can be worked with (maybe needs a cute short jacket over it or something).

As is, would put some long earrings on her - because hair up, no necklace and studs are very blah. A sea of skin, I get it, but zzzz. Maybe some bracelets.

I just keep thinking how can something that clashes so much, with crazy patterned nail polish be so... boring?

This is not fixable - it's just plain fug. There is nothing to be done except go home and change, starting with a big bottle of nail polish remover. Now, everybody has wardrobe mishaps every now and then, so I'm not trying to be totally harsh here, but I'm having a really hard time forgiving the nails. It looks like she banged two fingers with a hammer before she left.

1. fire her stylist
2. fire her manicurist
3. burn the clothes

Uh uh. The whole look is a tall, cold glass of NO. She needs to burn it all, especially the black and white nail polish, and start over.

LOVE the skirt. Scrap the existing bustier and replace it with a fitted black bustier (not in shiny satin and no lacy frippery). Then the black and white nails work better and the whole thing is kind of cool modern with a sophisticated 80s color scheme.

The top is so retro and the skirt so futuristic that I just can't imagine them ever agreeing on anything. Except the nail varnish being fun on a rainy Sunday at home but a bad idea for an event.

Mostly I worry that she'll wander too close to a naked flame, and all of those man-made fibers will be set on fire.

I think the purple is a good colour on her, so I hope she is taking another leaf from the 80's toy fashion catalogue, and that the top is actually a mini-dress which she's put a skirt on top of to be more like her Colour-Blind Barbie doll.

When you're wearing two colors that look clashy, you need to add a third color to make things communicate. In this case, she needs a thin pale yellow belt and either her bag or her clutch should go with her outfit. I don't hate the top in theory, but the fabric makes it look too much like something she bought from Victoria's Secret. D&G corsets, honey, not VS. Not a fan of the nails.

I think all of the colors (sans the alternating ones on her digits... ugh.) work really well together! fun palette, for sure.

I think this is an outfit that looks great on. Oh, sorry, the last word in that sentence should be "fire".

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lose the skirt. fix the fingernails.

Top is the only ok-ish piece. Maybe it could be paired with pencil skirt (plum or black) and lace shrug. It would still look underwear but in more classier, Dita von Teese -like way.

Skirt is horrible and way too small (again I wonder why American starlets are so fascinated with clothes that don't fit them...) and even though I occasionally like alternating nail colors, black and white is a huge no-no.

I don't remember which series it was (Babysitter's Club? Sweet Valley High? Who can remember?), but in one of my old faves there was a description of a girl wearing a rubber skirt to make a fashion statement. That thing, right there? Is EXACTLY what I pictured. Thank you Katie Cassidy.

While I don't understand why Spanx makes a foundation garment with gathery bits arount the hips, my advice to her is: "Go home and put real clothes on OVER your underwear. Then we can talk."

This get-up cannot be saved. And you can tell me - confidentially - is she wearing Judy Jetson's cheerleading skirt? With the saloon gal's undergear?

The real capper here - the alternating nail polish. WTF?

That skirt, with the rocket fins like something out of Flash Gordon, is unredeemable.
Fix the nails.
I'm okay with underwear as outerwear, but only with something over it. Wow, that sounds contradictory.
Slim black skirt and a matching jacket.

Oh dear. Wow. Ok, so...
1. make the skirt black, a size up and tug it down 10cm
2. put a black blazer on with the sleeves rolled up
3. paint every other nail black to even things up

I'd say, ditch the lingerie, put on simple white top (not strapless!).

The alternating black and white nail polish actually makes me kind of happy, but I am not yet even of legal drinking age, so that could be why. I love the skirt, especially in that color. Keep only the lace outlining at the top and lose all the other frilliness. Perfection.

I say just stay home & watch some Arrested Development DVDs on the TV-- dive into a nice pink snuggie, grab a bowl of popcorn and enjoy the evening none of this is working for me, and her stylist should be sent to the afghanistani front

GAH! When did the City girls puke all over your layout!? Their eyes follow me wherever I go....

Focus on the topic: Hope Katie doesn't rely on blood circulating to the lower half of her body, because with a skirt that tight, it ain't happenin.

This is not good. I don't understand. Is that skirt made by nerf? I feel like throwing velcro balls at it.
I just...no. I don't have the strength.

Both the color and the shape of the bottom reminds me of the hats that the band, Devo, used to wear.

The top seems like something one of the bordello matrons that would wear while visiting Miss Kitty's saloon on Gun Smoke.

I cannot unfug this. It's not possible.

Right... Love the two COLOURS... But not together so on her Im going for the peach. With a structure more like the skirt in THIS: http://img224.imageshack.us/i/pourelleparispremiere2mt3.jpg/ (love you diane ha ha!) and a drapey black silky vest tucked in and slightly edgier shoes- maybe the black patent louboutin court or *shock horreur* the ankle boot equivalent for a much-needed kick?

Paint the nails pink (black and white? SERIOUSLY?), let your hair down, add a rosey gold long chain and get ready to LOOK ALRIGHT.

Nope. Don't like either part. Ditch it all.

Keep the shoes and ditch the rest. It's aaalll fugly.

It's just too "oh crap, I forgot my rommate is having a Halloween party tonight" for my taste.

I think it may be beyond the powers of Fug Nation to fix this one.

THE NAILS.
THE NAILS.
I can not go on.

Clearly, she just FORGOT to put the top that goes with that skirt on over her bra/bustier thing. Aside from finishing getting dressed, she just needs some nail polish remover and it's good.

What a doozy: bad fit, bad silhouette, mixed statements, and cheap looking material. Also, tucking in a corset top just looks like you forgot to put your shirt on. Give her a chic jacket or some jewelry to break up that expanse of tanfastic, and a skirt that fits and doesn't compete so much and MAYBE.

I would put a bullet between her eyes and end the misery.

this shouldnt be an "unfug it up" there are no minor tweaks that would make this better. I guess, it would be slightly better if the top and bottoms matched. (a black skirt...or a white top?) but really...itd still be fug.

She looks to be wearing lingerie and half a Dyson.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8x1T0_9QhC4/RszhnewZ3UI/AAAAAAAABl4/59p9GfLCbfU/s400/dyson+pink.jpg

Belt, no? Give girl black belt.

Pros: shoes, clutch, great figure, Fashion Plates reference

Cons: non-matching outfit that's too tight, the nail polish

A black top with some cap sleeves with volume would play off the skirt nicely.

The top looks too much like lingerie when paired with this skirt. I think the skirt is interesting, but totally fug-blocked by the top. The skirt has both beautiful (young! fun!) color and construction and she is the size of a nickel, so can pull off the extra volume from the folds. This skirt with a not-purple-and-black-lace-top would have been great. I second the suggestions of plain white shirt and belt though. The skirt fits, but no one looks good in "high waisted" anything.

I'm also aligned with a lot of other comments on the nails (NO!) and jewelry (YES!).

WTF is up with that nailpolish? That was the first thing I noticed, and it needs to go. As does the corset. Not that she should walk around free-boobing all night, but she should put an interesting skirt like that with a plain, fitted, black shirt.

I think this look is ALMOST there. I love the two pieces...maybe if she tossed some kind of floaty little jacket on (John Galliano vintage 1998), a better manicure (that goes without saying), a stronger bag and maybe some acid green tights with black lace pantyhose overtop.
Finish with yellow kid 1 wrist-button gloves.

OK, as has been said, switch the twirly neon poppy skirt for a black pencil skirt. Sized up, from a 000 to a mere 00.

And when that gets boring: take the twirly neon poppy skirt back, size it up to double zed, giving it room to ride more toward the top of the hip bone, and get a fitted silk blouse in the same color with the teensiest bit of a capped sleeve.

Shoes OK, strip nails and paint with muted natural-tone pearl.

I hated the skirt at first, but it's really fun and pretty.

I kinda like it.....Is that bad?? Only if the top was a pretty white with black trim. I love the skirttt!! I think that this is wonderfully youthfull, but the corset grown-ups it a bit! Its hard to explain...i <3 the color of the skirt, so it would be perfect if the colors didn't clash so violently, no?

I'm sorry but she is hot!

Also, I would complain about The City ads as being super-fug, but am still so scarred by the Sorority horror movie sidebars from 2 weeks ago that I just feel glad it's not those again.

Although not mad about the outfit, I think this little pixie is pulling it off. I think the nail polish is a nod to Kimberley Shaw and obviously that ankle tattoo means she is auditioning for Poison Ivy 2.0. How exciting!

Oh, you spoke to my heart when you mentioned Fashion Plates (ah, sweet youth). As far as this outfit goes, the only thing that could be and should be done to fix this mess is to step in the time machine and go back several days and hire a competent stylist to select something, say, fashionable to wear.

I'm sorry, but that dreadful underwear as outerwear rears it's ugly head up the top here, and the colours don't reeeeeeeeally match all that well. The skirt is interesting but needs something matching up top and for God's sake cover up that flesh. She looks so bare. And maybe a necklace? The shoes are somehow wrong too, maybe too dull, or is it just the pic being washed out. Maybe patent leather would be better? I think perhaps she could hold some small snacks in those pleats; lazy Susan style.

The skirt needs to be a whole dress. Color=gorgeous. Crazy balloon gores (can those be classified as gores?)= insane but wonderful. It just needs a strapless bodice that mirrors the shape of the skirt. In a really subtle way. If that's possible.

Am I right?

Purple and red don't go together unless it's a bruise. The accessories are a yawn and the nails are childish. Return to closet, start over entirely.

I LOOOOOOVVVVEEE Fashion Plates!

love the skirt. looks like a project runway orig.

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Analogizing Amanda Woodward and Don Draper? Sheer brilliance.

The look is all sorts of wrong and hurts my brain to think about fixing it. I need Intern George, Doritos, and a Diet Coke...immediately.

Clearly, someone played a cruel trick on her and switched the "garanimals" tags on all her clothing. Either that, or she got dressed in the dark. And there is no explaining her Halloween manicure. Seriously, this all needs to go, and she needs to start completely over, from head to toe.

I LOVE fashion plates!

I think it is a really cool combination. Creative, but not too much.

Gosh, I can't even believe I'm posting in the minority (and on my maiden post too!) but something about this really pleases me. With the exception of the schizo nail polish, of course! The skirt has a creamy, Georgia O'Keefe quality and the slight clash of the orange with muted purple reminds me of looking at a glowing fall landscape at sunset. I just thank Yahweh she doesn't seem to be wearing those foot-prision gladiator nonsensicals and her legs go on for days as they extend into the shadows! I give it an A-

She's kind of a Locklear mini-me, no?

oops--forgot: I don't like what's going on at the waistband though, it looks unfinished. Hence the - in my A-.

Pretty girl - hair and makeup are flattering - but not enough to pull this off.

The top is not a top. It is underwear. Put on a blouse.

The color does not make up for the weird shape of the skirt. The waist is too high and the way it is fitted, then poofs out just doesn't seem right. A slight flair would have been better. I wonder if something happened to the original vampy skirt and this was a last minute substitute?

Alternating colors on her fingernails? Is she in 7th grade?

Scrap it all, including the giant awful ring and the also-awful black-and-white nails. The hair and shoes can stay, and the earrings and clutch. Then throw on something that's actually CUTE. I'm picturing a nice black dress here, with just a slight edge because she isn't 45 and/or Angelina Jolie.

Does she remind anyone else of Jennie Garth?

Two words: Burqua. Gloves.

you have GOT to be kidding me that you just dropped a Fashion Plates reference in there? I was just JUST (unsuccessfully) trying to describe what they were/how much I loved them to a friend of mine via IM the other day. Once again, you guys amaze me.

OK, with gams like that, you can pull off some drama at the hemline. Also, with skin like that you can wear the skimpy top. No amount of bodaciousness, however, will excuse coral + plum. Switch it to a black top and choose your nail color--black OR white. As Getty Lee said, 'if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!" In this case--bad choice.

She could start by wearing a top over the corset. And isn't that skirt some kind of formal tennis wear? And those nails?? Please, honey, even my 5 year old has outgrown that look. Pretty girl, lovely skin, nice legs. But the outfit? Total fug.

I never understand why pretty girls with perfect figures do this kind of thing to themselves. A beautiful woman AUTOMATICALLY gets attention. She doesn't have to put on some godawful get up to draw all eyes to her.

If I were her stylist, I would have suggested a classic black cocktail dress, a washed face, and combed hair.

Am I the only one that thinks this looks unflattering

This high waist skirt is not cute on anyone. Case and point http://outfitidentifier.com/?p=4877

I think the skirt is cute, but it looks like she forgot to put on her top before she left the house..And damn she is one hot bitch!

I'm with Pete:

All other fugliness aside, why do skinny girls who presumably *have* waists dress like they have none?

I'll go with Saidbhin, too:
Ringmastress!

MANICURE DON'T!

scrap the skirt and go with a black pencil skirt

Yeeeah...she forgot her shirt. Nice bustier though!

Also, I didn't even notice the nails, but I'm FOR them. I've done something similar, except I did alternating French tips over them (ie black nails with white tips and white nails with black tips). But I wore it with a black-and-white print top and black pants, too...

I'm way late to the party but... I'd put a red belt on it. No really! That way it would be all "I know this clashes to hell and back, but I LIKE IT" instead of "Oops, my shirt flew off!" I'd probably stick with black for the shoes and bag, but I'd pick completely different styles (is that gold detail on that thing!!?) to go with the general kooky-bright-underthings look -- maybe something lacy? And yeah, I'd totally keep the nails. This would still get me on Go Fug Yourself, but they would be wondering if I was trying to do some king of homage to early Madonna crossed with the new Alice in Wonderland, and that would be EXACTLY what I was trying to do. :-)

NOTHING justifies that skirt. That thing is hideous! No way ANYONE could truly look good in it.

I don't understand all the corset haters, although I would say throw a tailored black blazer over it.
Either a more masculine style blazer with some dark, chic jeans, or a more feminine style with a different skirt. I'm thinking something in an earthier/more normal color- slate gray or black- that starts lower (just below or at the waist). A lot of people said a pencil skirt, but I think that would be a bit too dominatrix. Maybe some kind of A-line skirt with volume and structure that DOESN'T remind me of those cupcake dolls from the 90's...