We've been a bit hard on Blake Lively for the flesh parade she likes to throw for herself every time she goes outside. It's not that we don't understand the temptation to show off what you've got; we just tend to believe it's okay to, say, skip the all-you-can-eat buffet in favor of a tasty sit-down dinner that's filling, yes, but also leaves you wanting to come back for more.
Ergo, I think this is sort of cute.
There's a HINT of cleavage, and plenty of leg. I'm sure if she turns around we'll find out there's no back and that her rump equator is showing, or something, but for now let's assume that's not true. There IS something sort of 1994 Amanda Woodward Goes To Work about this -- minus the mules, thankfully -- but I would also like to point out that Amanda Woodward was, is, and shall always be a total badass. I mean, what if Blake was doing the whole Alison Gets An Ill-Conceived Bob And Turns Into A Boozy Bitch Who Also Wears Mules thing? Or the Jane Mancini Bowl Cut of 1993? As Melrose Place influences go, this is really not so bad.
Ergo, I think this is sort of cute.
There's a HINT of cleavage, and plenty of leg. I'm sure if she turns around we'll find out there's no back and that her rump equator is showing, or something, but for now let's assume that's not true. There IS something sort of 1994 Amanda Woodward Goes To Work about this -- minus the mules, thankfully -- but I would also like to point out that Amanda Woodward was, is, and shall always be a total badass. I mean, what if Blake was doing the whole Alison Gets An Ill-Conceived Bob And Turns Into A Boozy Bitch Who Also Wears Mules thing? Or the Jane Mancini Bowl Cut of 1993? As Melrose Place influences go, this is really not so bad.
I really do like this. I think the outfit itself is really cute and flattering and her face looks nice as well. Also, cute shoes. I think it could just use some more interesting earrings or something, but other than that I'm all over it.
I saw an article the other day that pointed out she had concealer splotched all over her chest. The same chest she enjoys parading about for people to gawk at. If you look closely in the first picture, she does indeed have splotches. Perhaps not a good fashion choice, even if the outfit is cute. Perhaps next time, a darker concealer? Maybe?
It screams 1980s to me. The neckline, the shoulder pads; am I insane? Are there rhinestones on her shoes? I think I may need cake. Blake is always gorgeous, but this outfit seems like a bad costume.
Is it me, or is her face two shades lighter than her chest?
I can't believe you didn't mention that it looks like she's a waitress in a very fancy roadside cafe.
Hey! That's one of Posh's designs. (Don't ask me how I know this.)
It looks better on Posh, but I don't know why.
I really like her shoes. Different jewelry that also bring a splash of color would be nice, but overall, considering her track record, not bad.
This is the Blake Lively version of a nun's habit. The dress does nothing for me, but it's such an improvement on her that I'll embrace it.
The shoes are awesome, especially paired with black!
I find it completely boring on her. I like it when she flaunts her goods more, this makes her look like every other boring starlet.
Now, this is way better than romper she has ever worn.
I want that dress. Great fit, and I love the splash of color with the shoes and ring.
I can't get past the splotchy chest makeup. It's not even close to the right color. She looks like she's covered in calamine in the other photos I've seen. I would love to comment on the dress, but all I can see are spots.
I agree with Jen Wallace on just how boring this looks. it's just....uninspired. I'm not saying bring back the flesh parade, but maybe take a hint from Kristen Bell and try "Youthful, with a hint of class" on.
I didn't even notice the chest makeup. Perhaps it was Coffee Bean Blindness Syndrome (I wrote this yesterday).
It does look rather like what nuns at a Our Lady of Ill Repute would wear.
I don't know why, but it seems like Blake is to va va voom for this dress. Maybe because it's a Posh design, so it's meant to be worn by walking hangers. It's just so sad that she doesn't take advantage of her awesome bodaciousness. She either wears clothes meant for waifs or streetwalkers. And she should do something about her foundation/concealer issues there.
For her, it's an improvement. I'm not crazy about it. It seems a bit dated and a bit boring. She could have worn her hair down and it would have looked less as though she were a CEO for an adult movie production company, the only workplace I imagine that goes for business attire that short. Overall, though, it works.
Outfit aside, her skin is looking strange and mismatched, as others have mentioned. The earrings are just not doing it for me because they only accentuate the dated quality of the outfit.
I think it's adorable. Mind you, she has serious makeup issues she needs to sort out, and this is so weirdly formal for her I'm wondering who died, but the suit itself is really cute and I like her shoes.
Is it just me or is this the same dress Blake's sister, Robyn Lively, wore for the final dance scene in Teen Witch??? Maybe slighted updated (I believe the original was sporting some 80s puffed sleeves) and in a different color, but essentially the same dress....from 1989.
I look at this an immediately think, "Do you have some kind of businesswomen's special?" It's totally Romy and Michele make business outfits. And while I support Romy and Michele within the realm of fiction, I cannot condone it as an outfit for anything other than a "Come as your favorite moment from Romy and Michele" party. Which I may now throw.
She always wears her skirts just a little too short and it just kills her look.
Can someone please tell her stylist that we get the fact that she has great legs - they don't have to be in our faces every day.
I have to say I love it, the hint of cleavage is what makes it and she's got the legs. Let her show it.
Personally, I enjoy the Corporate Streetwalker look. It entertains me.
But it's her squint that's killing me. I find it even more distracting than the boobal blotches.
It's not very lively (ha!) but nice try, though. I love that blue spot on her shoes, perhaps the same blue could have been introduced elsewhere, too...
I like it. The triangular neckline is flattering, but keeps the girls corralled far better than Blake's usual outfits. The 3/4 sleeve and the (also triangular) little peplum-thingy in the front add visual interest. I have to say that I even like the shoulder pads. Also, the shoes are luscious!
Why, oh why, do all these cute young girls feel the need to dress like women in their late 30's who can't find anything in their closets except crap left over from the '80's? (T.Mom, I'm talking to you. Also Hayden Panetierre, whose name I am probably butchering.)
If you are 15, or 18, or 21, or something south of 30, then dress like it. You have the rest of your life for black dresses with shoulderpads. Save those for the retirement home in Miami.
I think she looks fine, compared to all those heinous shorts from a few months ago.
Let's try to remember Keith started out boring and then turned into a maniacal stalker who ended up offing himself all for the sake of Allison's love... inexplicable, yes, but hardly boring.
I can't believe you didn't make a joke about how this is the exact same dress that Robyn Lively wore a the end of Teen Witch, except with smaller shoulder pads.
that makes it awesome.
top that.
i have to say i LOVE it. it looks cute on her, but maybe it could have looked a little more edgy on someone...well, a little more edgy. like rhianna (who has the body AND the style). blake's got the body, but her all-american girl with long, soft, wavy blonde hair look sort of clashes with it. she looks nice in flow-y, soft looks. and dare i say this ages her already mature-for-her-age face?
If the skirt was just a FEW inches longer I would adore it. Otherwise she looks quite fetching in a Jane Jetson kink of way.
If the skirt was just a FEW inches longer I would adore it. Otherwise she looks quite fetching in a Jane Jetson kink of way.
Oops! Of course I meant "kind" of way. (Freudian slip).
MAJOR.
the earrings were about the only thing I liked here - but I think someone like Kristen Stewart would have worn them with some tee & converse combination, going for retro edge over 80s business wear. Spent the whole last GG ep wishing her skirts were longer too.
Hmmm, yeah. I'm with the Gentle Posters above who are opinining in favor of a few more inches on the hem. That would not be amiss.
But, gosh! Not looking totally hookeresque definitely has something going for it. It's OK not to give away the store, girls!!!
And the shoes! Wow. Splendid.
Not going to take issues with "other stuff."
I actually really like this odd dress on her. (It does look like the one from the end of Teen Witch!) She looks killer in it.
It is a Victoria Beckham design. I don't know about you guys, but I would say she actually looks better in this than waif-y Victoria ever could. I've seen a few of VB's other designs on curvier women, and they surprisingly look really good on bodies that aren't stick thin.
First of all, the girl looks at LEAST thirty. I don't know if it's the makeup, or the blah hair, or that she was up all night drinking whatever it is that the kids these days are drinking when they are Hollywood IT girls & drink "illegally" at the clubs but of course everyone knows who they are & how old they are but turns a blind eye.
ANYway. Secondly, this is the second time in two to three days that you've pulled a Gossip Girl "pretend you don't know what she usually wears but we know you can't & you have to admit that by comparasion, homegirl looks pretty close to okay for once." NO. You would not accept this from even a Swinton or a Moore. Okay, maybe a Moore. Definitely a Mirren. Okay, okay, you WOULD but I think the point I'm trying to make is OLDER women & I can't think of a youngun you tend to unequivocally approve of. But I'm pretty sure if Kristen Bell wore this you'd be all "off with her head; she looks stumpy" or something.
Clearly, it would be a step up for a Peldon or a Ling, but that is my point! A step up does not a "Fab" make, just because it's "better."
Is it just me, or does she really look like Blossom without the hats?
I am pleased. but I would LOVE it, if it didn't have the reverse coattails on the skirt. so simple, and she is simply smashing.
What the sam hill is wrong with her face and hair?? Dress is pretty much a blank canvass, and it could be fabulous if her equally fabulous hair were cascading all over it, her make-up was fixed and her skin peel/concealer did not exist.
Is she wearing Yin-Yang earrings!?
The outfit's all right, I guess, in that she's showing neither nipple nor crotch, which is better than I have grown to expect from this young talentless tart named Blake Lively, but she has a serious case of madly-shellacked butterface going on: the girl looks like a heavily-botoxed 44-year-old. Ugh.
I'm pretty damned sure Planet Earth could momentarily neglect to use its gravitational pull on Miss Lively and allow her to float off into a frigid, airless death in vacuum of space, and I would not miss her in the very slightest. Seriously. I couldn't give less of a shit about her, or her over-exposed tits, buttcrack, and vajayjay.
Why is it that sometimes comments are allowed and sometimes there aren't? Also this outfit is just not young enough for her:)
I'm sorry, I do not like it when women who are so young they still qualify as girls, especially women who have freckles and long blond hair and would not look out of place with a surfboard under one arm, resort to nineties power-dressing to look older than they are.
I finally figured out who she reminds me of! This is totally the face of Estelle, Joey's agent on "Friends". Close your eyes and travel with me....can you see her? Make-up applied with a spatula, squinty eyes, voice of a woman with too many miles and too many cigarettes in her past, said cigarette sending smoke swirls around her face...."Joey, doll, listen...."
Am I right? Right?
very cute, but i'm pretty sure i designed that in the fifth grade.