Fug or Snore: Hilary Swank

I LOVE it. But I might have given her a necklace?

I do think the movie looks terrible. It almost looks like a parody of a period piece to me.

This kind of dress needs big bodacious curves to fill it out. Hilary is tiny and very toned. She can rock many a dress. This dress is made for a whole different body shape.

I do like the color on her though!

The ear-bobs are delicate enough to allow a necklace as well without overwhelming her, sure, but even without the extra bling, she did bring the bracelet after all, I've gotta give her a Fab...

I'm not a fan of that draped sort of style, but Hilary pulls this off elegantly because she is tall and kind of flat chested. I agree that there's no anything anywhere about it and is a bit generic, but it serves its purpose without offending the eyes. She could have done with a simple necklace of some sort, but overall, the color is good, the make up is good, and the hair completes the look.

This is a Mother Of The Bride dress. It is very Matronly. I reject it.

She needs to do something with that hair!!! The movie is wrapped so Earhart's boy cut is no excuse. And that combed-back-bang-poof thing on top of her head is so last century.

The girl needs a necklace. And some more color. Naked face is not good with bland features. And the hair is ... unfortunate.

But that color? Is just lovely.

Definitely needs a dramatic necklace and maybe a sparkley hair pin

I do like the colour on her but the style is a bit old for her. There is fun to it.

She is perfect. I loved the dress, the colour. Less is more. Period.

Feh. I'm bored.

Beautiful color on an ok dress. Needs something shiny do distract from the bad movie. Bigger problem is the hair - more effort please! - and is she trying to match her eye makeup to the dress??? If so, girlfriend has bigger problems than a feh dress.

A belt would help it IMMENSELY.

Dress is just okay. A complete snore of a look all the way around.

I too admittedly do not care for La Swank even though I liked her in Boys Don't Cry.

The dress, while lovely, looks too much like curtains at a Merle Norman's and I have a personal vendetta against that non-colour of a colour.

We've all had those bad hair days and it looks like she just soldiered on with her public duties despite it.

This frock would pop if it was a bit shorter. Just at the knee, with some funky hair and gladiator shoes to "young" it up.

I'm with TLace. The dress would look great with a belt. Something contrasting like those leather numbers that sit high on the waist with a stylized rounded shape. Not a regular straight belt. Right now the waistline just sort of hangs limply.

I like it. that hip draping could be a disaster on someone else, but it looks good on her. I'd just add a little sparkle - either a necklace or a hair doodad, but not both.

I agree with TLACE -- she needs a belt. Something subtle yet shiny in, say, silver.

I think this dress is too regal for this event… even though it is a MOVIE PREMIERE. It’s almost like Hillary is premiering her role as the Statue of Liberty.

Sorry to get all mean about it but the real problem is not the dress. The dress is beautiful. It's her that's boring. Think about that dress on Christina Hendricks or Monica Bellucci.

Gorgeous, but any sort of accessory would have been nice. Even those silly goggles or an ear flap hat.

yeah, it's fine, the color's great, her makeup's good, her hair's nice, but I feel you: it gives me an overwhelming BLAH feeling.

I have 2 theories on this dress:

1. Her stylist was maybe going for a similar impact as that Oscar dress she wore for Million Dollar Baby. Very minimalist, not a lot of jewelry, but very striking. It's even a similar color.

2. Hilary is the boring one. I agree with the previous poster that Christina Hendricks would be bangin' in this dress.

That dress is both fug AND snore. And I don't think that hairstyle works well on her. Or anybody.

I dont like the fact that it trawls around her feet in such an unruly manner. It is perfect till her ankle and then something wrong happens. Also I would have given her Ruby Chandelier earrings with this.

No, you are NOT the only one who thinks the movie looks unbelievably dull. I almost fell asleep watching the trailer last night.

Maybe it's just my distaste for her that bugs me about this, but I am more on the side of dislike than apathy here. Then again, it is probably her this side of Sienna Miller I can't think of any actress I find more irratating and overrated. Boys Dont Cry and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are the only movies she's ever made that are worth watching

I think she just needs a FAB necklace. While I appreciate that less is more, girlfriend needs a little bling.

I totally hate her hair as Amelia Earhart, too!! I thought it was just me. The dress isn't bad but could definitely use something sparkly - earrings, necklace and/or belt. Just someting!

Add a blingy necklace and blingier earrings, and hem it up a notch, and she'll be all Happy Landings. Now, I want to start a band called "The Ear Flap Hats."

fug. The draping makes her look bigger and shorter than she is. It should be goddess-like and instead it's mother of the bride.

what's the point of the amelia movie anyway? we all know how it ends...

Two people already beat me to it, but I will say it anyway: This dress is beautiful...on Christina Hendricks! She's the first person I thought of when I saw that cut and color. She would elevated it to goddess status.

Joan Collins is about the only human being beside Scarlett who could ever pull off the draperies-as-high-fashion look. And even if this dress was worn by Joan, it would still need a turban AND Dex Dexter as accessories.

Who needs a necklace when you can accessorize with a collar bone like that?! I think a belt, or some detail at the waist that doesn't look like an elastic waistband would make it A++, otherwise, it's gorgeous.

I'm with Gillian (my middle name, so already I'm favorably biased towards her and anything she says) - and I too am enjoying Hil's "clavicles" (the vocab word from last week, which I've overused, so I need a new one). She looks fabulous. It doesn't make her look hippy or big or anything other than a tall, cool drink of teal. And she's gotta do a better Amelia than Amy Adams in "NATM2" (although I love Amy also, just not in that movie).

The dress looks like the curtains that my Italian aunt has hanging in the living room that nobody uses. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but those huge swoops brought me right to that memory.

Hmph. I think the movie trailer looks great! As does Hilary in this dress, except for her awful pompadour. Apart from that, GORGEOUS.

And, ya know, you really oughta open the comments for Fabiola. I have SO MUCH TO SAY about that dress. It's a UnFug It Up if ever I saw one. Work with me here!

She needs a big dramatic cuff bracelet with this dress. The hair... meh. Not horrible but it's simple enough to not take away from the dress. The makeup... double meh. Maybe some eyeliner? I feel like she took a gown that is dramatic and tried to downplay it by not accessorizing so as to not look over dressed. Instead she just looks boring, bored and tired.

Isn't that the dress from the Chase Sapphire commercials? Did she use all her points to get it?

I hate that color. The dress might be… ok… if it were hemmed properly, I guess but that color always looks tacky. However. I think it's the hair and the eye makeup that are the biggest problems in this case. It looks a little like she put her hair up in the bathroom in order to put on her makeup and then got interrupted in the middle, never finished the makeup and never did the hair.

I think if she were simply posed differently it would look 8 million times better

I hate that color. The dress might be… ok… if it were hemmed properly, I guess but that color always looks tacky. However. I think it's the hair and the eye makeup that are the biggest problems in this case. It looks a little like she put her hair up in the bathroom in order to put on her makeup and then got interrupted in the middle, never finished the makeup and never did the hair.

Lynne - I was thinking January Jones as well. But yeah, Christina Hendricks. Va-va-voom.

Needs:

cleavage engineering

slightly more dramatic makeup

better hair

one more piece of nice jewelry (necklace or hair doodad, but not both, as noted).

A higher hemline and some knockout shoes would really help as well.

Pretty color, but the sides remind me of the curtain rising at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. She makes me want to see a movie!

And jewelry. Definitely would help, but I don't think she carries the look. Someone up there suggested Christina Hendricks could, can you imagine if she wore this with her curves? The planet would be speechless.

This is a kind of dress that soooo many american style gurus recommend in soooo many tv shows. So what's the problem..? ;))))))))

Yes, it is boring and it would get better with a "look at me!!!" posture instead of "er...hello, what am I doing here" posture, better boobage and some nice jewelry.

If she had a flowered sofa and a Queen Anne coffee table in front of her, and a window behind her, she'd be my grandmother's living room.

That dress looks like tacky drapes. Bad look.

I love the color of the dress but it looks like a theatre curtain. Also, I agree with what someone else said; she needs more up top to really pull it off.

The dress is a snooze, the hair is a snooze, Hilary herself is a snooze.

I love Hilary Swank. I love Amelia Earheart. I'm not even going to see the movie since I don't deal well with disappointment. I'm just going to pretend that I saw it and that it is the greatest cinematic achievement of all time.
And the actress of the greatest movie EVER? She can do no wrong. I love the dress.

The color is beautiful, and she pulls off the dress well, but I can't get past her teeth.

dress: absolutely beautiful
color: fantastic
accessories: understated, but pretty
hilary: absolute disaster

i am really not a hilary swank fan. in fact, just the opposite. so its really hard for me to judge her personal styling, but i am pretty sure that, even for her, she looks extra masculine and unwell. that dress is begging for an actual woman to wear it, preferably one with super-curves.

The dress needs a bigger hem... it's kind of "beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, nothing".

Better hair, and accessories would also be a plus.

So "they" keep telling us that the 80's are back (which could be the subject of a completely different, and very long and angry post, but we're here to discuss Hilary) and I see that it's true in this dress. The color is attractive but it does Hil no especial favors, and it's reminiscent of the jewel tones that nauseated us in the 80's. The draping at the hips also smacks of the "Me Decade." Slap in a couple of shoulder pads the size of Sony Walkmans, and this dress could be worn (better) by Alexis Carrington Colby. Hil has neither the rack, nor the sense of righteous indignation required to truly pull off this dress.

I, too, am bored by the prospect of the Amelia Earhart movie. Unless they get Joan Collins to play Amelia's mother or something. That would be a hoot!

So "they" keep telling us that the 80's are back (which could be the subject of a completely different, and very long and angry post, but we're here to discuss Hilary) and I see that it's true in this dress. The color is attractive but it does Hil no especial favors, and it's reminiscent of the jewel tones that nauseated us in the 80's. The draping at the hips also smacks of the "Me Decade." Slap in a couple of shoulder pads the size of Sony Walkmans, and this dress could be worn (better) by Alexis Carrington Colby. Hil has neither the rack, nor the sense of righteous indignation required to truly pull off this dress.

I, too, am bored by the prospect of the Amelia Earhart movie. Unless they get Joan Collins to play Amelia's mother or something. That would be a hoot!

I like the dress, but I do agree with you that she needs more styling. Right she is just a hanger for that dress - you see the dress not her.

Peronally I would have her amp up the make-up just a little bit, not to Chrisina Aguilera levels or anything, but just enough so she isn't playing second fiddle to her gown.

P.S.

It could be my screen, but it looks like she has blue make-up on the BOTTOM EYELIDS - very odd look if true. And if true, I would definitely recommend rethinking that.

Nora, you're right. aside from that, though, there is nothing wrong with this look. methinks fug girl standards are just a bit too high? :-)

She's totally swamped in this. Whatever part of it is hanging off her back should just be cut off and it would be much better. Plus, while I love the color in general, it does nothing for her.

On another topic, why is that lately I always want to comment on your entries that don't have comments enabled? (Or that you don't have comments enabled on the entries I want to comment on?) I'll blame it on the problems with your ISP.

Anyway, I see that Katie Holmes has apparently gotten the "Must wear boring black business pumps" memo that everyone else has received. Even cute simple slingbacks would have been an improvement.

And RE: Fabiola Beracasa, you're right about the sun blinding you, because I can't believe you didn't mention the ribbon of buttons that seem to be hanging down from her left side like the "please take a number" tickets at a deli. If she were to remove that, and actually stand/look like she likes the dress and was having fun, she could have totally pulled this off and you would have loved it, without a doubt.

Snore on sister! I love The Swank, but indeed, she needs a bauble, or something.
I too, am in agreement on the movie. I feel like I SHOULD like it, but it just looks like a non-stop flight to Dullsville.

Hair? Awful. Dress? Eh. A necklace would help things. And that makeup needs to a bit bolder.

The movie? Anytime they resort to promoting a movie based upon the star's two Oscars, you know there's something rotten in Denmark. Besides, I don't think I can watch Richard Gere making out with yet another actress young enough to be his daughter by a long margin. It's not that he's old, it's just that, well, aren't there any other actors in Hollywood who could pull this off?

I think she looks stunning! Elaborate draping is so hit and miss, but I think this really flatters her shape, elongates her and gives her some subtle curves, which is exactly what draping should do. It totally nails the grecian look that everyone's always getting spectacularly wrong, and it's a little art deco too.

And minimal jewellery is a breath of fresh air in a Hollywood crawling with Rachel Zoe clones. :p

OK, it's late, but I've gotta have my say. I AM a Swank fan, not so much personally, but I love her work. So I MAY not be objective.

I agree that the hair is not her best look (OK, heinous) and the makeup could have been more adult looking. (lower lid blue indeed!) The existing accessories are all spot on, but a bright sparkly necklace would have brought it all home.

And maybe someone with more chestal oomph would have worn the hell out of the dress, but look, peeps: It's totally Old Hollywood Classic Glamour, and the ladies of that day were on the slender, lanky side, just like our Hill!

So I say, fix the hair, makeup, and add a touch more sparkle (necklace, hair clip?), a silver, goddessy belt, and let the skirt puddle as it does. Go, Hill!

The problem is that the Swankster's curves are so subtle, they're zzz-ville.

I'm with Elizabeth & Mermaid on this one, as well as those who say, "The problem ain't the dress, but the woman inside it."

Yes, Hil is enviably thin, but it takes more than "thin" to fill out this dress with awesome (waist-to-hip ratio, anyone?). You need some CURVES to rock this goddess look. (Anyone looked at actual Greek statues lately -- we're talking volup-tu-OUS!)

If baby wants to sizzle in this frock, baby needs to get some back -- and more in the front wouldn't hurt, either.

agreed...snore to the movie, and snore to the dress too...but...

am i crazy, or is that MATCHING UNDER EYELINER?!

She looks like a total babe! She's keeping it simple and classy. I like.

I am not loving this dress. It is a 3 on a scale of 10

Blaaah. It feels too big or unfinished somehow, like her limo arrived early and she forgot the belt and possibly the last fitting, 'cause I know she's got boobs in there somewhere, but they're kinda lost, and she didn't really get to do her hair and it's actually a little dirty and yeah. Unfinished. Snooozer.

I like your Gertrude Stein reference. Good

Don't care what she wears, I can't stand her. Ever since she chose to expose her ex's drug problems, she's a complete ugly boitch in my book.

I love the dress! I think it looks good on her body type but personally yes, she herself is a snooze. There is a different burgundy colored version on Carey Mulligan and although I like the longer length of Hilary's, Carey put a brooch at the shoulder that really makes the dress more interesting.

Perfect. It's a bold enough color and there's enough detail on the dress that she doesn't need a lot of accessories. I think the delicate earrings and bracelet are just enough.

Isn't that the dress worn by Molly Culver (former VIP star!) in the Chase ink commercials? You know where the hubby wants to wisk her off on a romantic vacation with all of the points they've earned on their credit card and she blew them all on the dress? Yeah that looks like the same BORING dress.

WHY is it eating her feet? WHY?

Other than that I actually love it, and she has a killer smile in this pictures.

I think if they ever do a remake of Dynasty she's set. And yes, a necklace would have been great but I don't think it could make up for the hair.

I think the dress is just fine. The color is great, and I even like the hip curtains. Hil's built completely out of right angles, so the built-in curves of the hip curtains soften her figure a bit.

I agree she needs a little hair ornamentation and a simple necklace. And possibly a different bag. Maybe something in a silver to complement the jewelry and make the whole a little less somber.

A classic case of the dress wearing her. She is too slight to pull off all the drapery.

Not that it really matters though, as the dress is fug.

Hil's gotta be careful (even with the rockin' bod) not to come across butchy, ya know ? So with this greek goddessy dress, soften the hair a bit, not so severe. Also, a sparkly belt, just a skinny little one, but that would've helped. Love love LOVE the colour. Maybe a better bra, cause I seem to remember her having better boobage in dresses past..... That said, I think she could wear anything. She just needs a little help with the styling.

What this classic 1930s look needs is a classic 1930s touch -- two diamond clips across the shoulder seams, and myabe a big clunky sparkly bracelet. But the shoulder clips are essential, and would draw more attention to those wonderful clavicles. More thirties-ish makeup and hair wouldn't hurt either.

It looks like it has an elasticized waist and a cape. Come on. That's hopeless.

Wait. The girl has GREEN BAGS PAINTED INTO HER FACE. That's the news here, kids. Someone went and said "Hey! What this Oscar winner needs is green bags under her eyes----to match her dress! Brilliant!" Or not.

Wait. The girl has GREEN BAGS PAINTED INTO HER FACE. That's the news here, kids. Someone went and said "Hey! What this Oscar winner needs is green bags under her eyes----to match her dress! Brilliant!" Or not.

blah! She always looks boring or drab. Even in movies. Even in Buffy. Just bland. Even in 90210. Blah :(

She is just plain ugly, no matter what she wears. She has the face of a horse.

I cannot make a real judgement on this until I have the answer to this question: Does this dress have a pseudo CAPE on the back of it?!