When I saw this photo in thumbnail size, I thought Paula Abdul here was Jasmine Guy -- her hair is similar to Jasmine's on Vampire Diaries, and I had just been talking about how Ms Whitley Gilbert is MUCH too young to be playing a grandmother on said show, so I had her on the brain. (It has been pointed out to me that Whitley's VD character IS a witch, so maybe she's staying young-looking thanks to MAGIC, and I feel like I might be able to accept that. And trust me, I am happy to see her working, but still. Jasmine Guy is no grandma. Anyhoodle.) Which is why I thought, "is Jasmine Guy actually kind of working high-waisted leather pants? She IS a witch!!"
Look, it's possible that I have totally lost the plot. This is the third day in a row that I've had a fever. Last night, I had a feverish delirium that Ryan Seacrest and I were being forced to perform "Tardy for the Party" for President Obama and I couldn't find my wig. (Ryan was cool about it.) So let's take a looksee in the close-up:
Look, it's possible that I have totally lost the plot. This is the third day in a row that I've had a fever. Last night, I had a feverish delirium that Ryan Seacrest and I were being forced to perform "Tardy for the Party" for President Obama and I couldn't find my wig. (Ryan was cool about it.) So let's take a looksee in the close-up:
I mean, on one hand , this is CRAZY. On the other hand. it could potentially be worse? I don't know. I need to go find some orange juice:
She is sort of working it
I thought it was a cummerbund....
I'm too focused on the fact that she went to the Michael Kors Tanning Booth to even consider the outfit.
PUT THE BRONZER DOWN.
It's crazy, but we've all seen crazier -- especially on Paula.
She looks like she is the ringmaster of a circus.
It goes UP to her boobs. There is something very wrong here.
Straight up, I think the pants make her look stumpy. She's got the figure to pull it off (Yay Paula!) and I do covet that as a fellow shorty, but those pants are just...NO. No to high-waisted leather pants. NO.
It's not too bad as long as I don't hit the close-up button. Could be worse. Has been worse. Mind you, I'm not saying it's good.
I think she's rocking the pants and even the jacket, but that shirt has got to go!
I think she pulls off the outfit, but I don't like the hair. It looks like a mushroom. And ditto on the trip to the Michael Kors tanning booth.
H1N1, that's what the fever's about.
Paula looks FABULOUS here. Not batshit crazy like normal.
I dunno. It's all a little too much, but really, a wee bit. A crisp solid color sheer shirt like the one she has, minus the vertical stripes that inevitably go awry at the boob area, would've been fine. What with the tanning, the angled hairdo, miles of blush, shiny stripes and shiny pants - minus one (or two) of those elements and this would've been a solid win. Let's just be happy this this has hit some sort of middle ground and avoids the extreme of "OH MY GOD LADY. STOP."
On anyone else, this would be certifiably crazy. But on Paula, it's a refreshing change from her usual brand of Vegas-showgirl-meets-circus-clown. So yay.
H1N1, that's what the fever's about.
Paula looks FABULOUS here. Not batshit crazy like normal.
Looks cute from a distance--total disaster up close. So it's sort of like how I look on a daily basis (prefer to look at myself without my contacts in).
I'm sorry. I could have sworn I just read the phrase "working high-waisted leather pants" here at GFY. But I couldn't possibly have read that, because high-waisted leather pants are unworkable. On anyone. Ever.
Maybe I have a fever?
She looks great for her. That's sort of an insult I guess. The leggings look good considering her height and age. OUCH another insult. They come so easily with Paula!
Somebody has got to STOP her. She can't seem to stop herself. Those pants are nothing short of utterly frightening, but i didn't even notice them at first, because her face and hair and makeup look sooooooo ewwwwwww!!!!
She looks like she just stumbled out of the center ring after announcing the trapeze act. However, I like the blouse, and despite the high-rise, the outfit sort-of works. The fake tan, drunken gaze, and limp hair do not. And was Paula's face always that thin?
I'm LOVING the pants and the blazerthingy, but I hate the shoes and the shirt. Especially the shirt. Brrr.
Close up, I like it less, but there is something flattering about them in the first shot. Maybe high waisted pants with a jacket looks okay because it's snot so torso-eating. On the other hand, maybe it's just that ridiculously skinny ladies can wear whatever they want and not look horrendous. I wouldn't want to encourage this trend, but as far as these things go, Paula really doesn't look half bad! In fact, I'd totally give her a B, maybe even a B+.
The pants are really the only thing about this outfit that I like. Paired with a different shirt (you know, one that fits) and cropped jacket the pants could be awesome. But somehow I know that if Paula attempted it, she would end up looking like a bullfighter. Ole!
She is celebrating this sandwich holiday by appearing to need one. Do not listen the the voices Paula , pills are not the same as food.
She could be the mayor of Crazytown but I really like the pants and jacket on her so that must mean I've just bought some property of my own in Crazytown.
High-waisted trousers are a NO, and aforementioned item in leather is a gargantuan hyper-NO!!! She looks like a ridiculous over-the-top tanned old hag who desperately tries to be hip and trendy... oh, wait, she IS all that! Sad.
Nice shoes, though.
The black bra visible under the shirt (and the horrific tanning) ruin it. Close, very close.
The fact is, for Paula, this is pretty darn good. Positive reinforcement, people!
I am surprised -- she's pulling off high-waisted pants!! I never thought I'd see the day...
Maybe it's the fact that she's so petite and the jacket is helping make the silohette look more balanced, but she actually looks good in high-waisted pants. You go, Paula!!
Now, just PLEASE get new hair & makeup stylists!
The dark shadows had me momentarily blinkered into thinking that these (gulp) high-waisted leather pants were something short of blindingly hideous, however after a jaunt into Photoshop and a tweak of the color levels, my eyeballs won't stop bleeding long enough to allow me to congratulate Paula on morphing into Octomom Leatherpants...
I hate to say this about anything Paula Abdul wears, but I kind of love the jacket. She just needs to lose the pants. But, um, replace them with something, don't go all Lindsay Lohan on us.
I kind of... kind of... um, kind of like it. Wow, that was hard to get our. Comments are correct about too much going on--a simpler shirt, less H!A!I!R!, maybe different colored shoes, but overall, it is pretty darn not crazy, and possible sort of, eeeee, good.
Damn, now I have to change my name.
honestly, i would think none of it SHOULD work... the shininess, the high waist, the point at which the jacket hits her hips. but amazingly it sort of DOES. in a way i think that's worth celebrating.
Is it me or does she look like Prince?
In this case, I feel like I have to consider that it's Paula Abdul. I'm not wild about the hair and makeup, but I'll give her a pass on those because in general she looks ladylike and not marinated in the crazy.
You're right, MC, that none of it SHOULD work, but it almost does.
However for me, the black leather midrift thing drags it down. If she were to remove the top panel of the pants (from the seam up) then she'd have totally owned it.
Not to get greedy with multiple comments, but I just figured it out...new Hollywood PR strategy: starving, skeletal, Lohan-Zoeish wisps alienating Regular American Women with their grotesquely pointy bodies? Strap on a fake belly pooch (or these pants) and fool those sofa-sittin', chip-eatin' normies into thinking you're one of them - it's BRILLIANT!
She's rocking the outfit, but has gotten scary skinny.
If it is sober-by-choice skinny, I'm leaning toward that's okay, but if it is wackadooza-skinny - I'm worried. ZOOM IN to the rings on both hands - they are falling off her skinny fingers.
I will say I have not seen anyone actually look taller in this type of ensemble, but she is rocking it.
Now get a sandwich please.
I'm a little creeped out by the Jasmine Guy resemblance thing, and also by the fact that her hair looks kinda like a longish James Brown (HEH! HUNH!) wig, and also by the fact that she looks on the scrawny side, and also? That she is, yes indeedy, rockin' the high waisted leather pants with overly cuffed underly opaque shirt.
Maybe I have a fever now.
The jacket is pretty cool. The rest???
It's not nearly as whackadoo as the get-ups she normally wears - pretty tame for her. And I thought it was a cummerbund at first, too.
As so many have mentioned, if this is considered IN CONTEXT -- from a long like of Paula bizarreness -- this kinda sorta works. I mean, it is comparatively GOOD for HER, when held up to the usual brain beating, eye smacking, stomach punching stuff she usually hauls out of her closet.
Still -- a comb, a damp washcloth, and maybe some corrective lenses to corral that wandering right eye that's staring into the spirit lands would be good. A completely different shirt would work, too. The pants? These days, I'm just glad when they WEAR pants. As long as they are in pants, and the pants aren't see through, I'll give a point.
It could be WAY worse. Don't complain. For Paula this is tea and crumpets at the Ritz.
Whatever on Paula. Yay!!! for OKCKate, though, bc she was ROBBED on the haiku contest.
Considering what a train wreck it could be? This is straight up respectable.
On anyone else I'd have a lot to say about sheer fabrics, hair styles, use of blusher, and assorted other issues. But on Paula? I have to agree with everyone who said it's wonderful to see her not rocking the crazy. She looks pretty damn good.
I will say one thing though (or two since I've already contributed my 2 cents -- make it 4!), this could look entirely tragic from a different angle/posture. High-waisted pants have a tendency to make stuff "bulge" on even the waifiest of figures, and it may just be that her pose is cleverly hiding it. Very sneaky.
Her makeup is a little heavy and I am not crazy about her shoes (also sick of the peeptoe generally) but otherwise I think she looks awesome. For a short girl she looks way long and I think it's classy in a unique and modern way.
And for Paula, who usually I think dresses WAY matronly and over the top, I think this is a step in a hugely correct direction! LOVE the hair. Wish I knew how to do that on my head......
I do not have a fever.
I second ANNEDK. Totally Prince...and there ain't nothing good about that.
The jacket is very nice. The shirt could be okay or even cute with nude camisole underneath, though since today has sucked less than yesterday and mellow is my middle name, I'll chalk the black bra up to color coordination.
The pants, however, look like they need to be on vacation fly fishing for trout with an 80's hair band. Lower the waistband and feel the love.
Far away it actually kind of looks fine. Up close I just want to rip off that top panel of the pants.
She looks so much like Michael Jackson in the second picture it is quite scary. Yes, they were siblings, but still...I never really saw that much resemblance until just now. Oh wait, this is Paula Abdul...not Janet Jackson. Hot damn! that is creepy, and I am confused. Anyway, now that I got that off my chest, on to the outfit!
I am digging it from afar. I think if she were someone less...scary looking...then she could probably pull that off. Maybe the blazer is a bit much? I love the pants, though. If I were famous I would so own and wear a pair of skintight pleather pants. But mine would be purple... Also her shoes are hot.
I definitely agree that it could be worse. But I also think that I might be more accepting if this outfit were worn by a less fugged celebrity.
More interesting to me is the resemblance between this photo and Whitley from Different World. I honestly think I might enjoy the outfit more if her arm were linked with Kadeem Harrison, dressed in a cycling cap and flip-top glasses.
On anyone else, this would be fug. But on Paula, it's kind of a step up, and I actually think she looks really pretty - radiant even.
What Amalo said. Ok from afar but the up-close view makes me twitchy.
I think they might be okay.
What has my jaw dropping is the fact that her hair actually looks good; not highlighted and scrunchied as she usually wears. Also, it doesn't look like she got attacked by a vengeful gang of accessories so bravo to Ms. Abdul!
The high waisted pants are atrocious, but this is a step up for Paula. She doesn't look freakish or scary. Her hair is okay, make up is okay, and the concept of the outfit would have worked if it hadn't been for that super high waist. Why, oh why are people into this high waisted look? Maybe because it's my birthday and I am as drunk as Paula is high on pills, but I am horrified.
Not terrible, but I want her to eat a sandwich. One with lots of meat and cheese. Yum. I just got really hungry. But back to Paula: doesn't she look crazy skinny? Is this new?
Good for now, but I'd have to see the back.
This is awesome for Paula, bad in general. She should definitely keep trying!
for a high waisted pair of leather pants and given her usual wardrobe choices, she looks pretty good. I like the blouse (albeit a bit fussy) and jacket. Maybe also better with dark shoes...and less bronzer
oh, so very very close. i like most of the seperate elements, i do, but together? high waisted leather ANYTHING is pretty much never ok.
but it's a full on monet for sure - far away it's ok, close up it's a big ol' mess!
i do actually quite like the hair.......
I would say from the waist up she looks great except that those pants come up to the waist. and they are bad. So I would have to say from the boobs up she looks great. and that means the lower half of her jacket, which is real perdy, will feel rejected. See?! see what her pants made her jacket feel?
I'm not often a fan of high-waisted pants, but I think Paula looks bangin' here. It elongates her torso, and looks both formal and sexy.
I think it might be better if the jacket were tailored in at the waist a tad, and the tan is completely awful (granted, she's naturally tanner than many, but not ORANGE).
Abdul's hair is quite lovely. The gray-peach shirt with silver stripes is pretty good, but would have been significantly cooler under gray or very dark brown or very dark navy rather than obvious, cheap black. I don't know what material object could be more detestable than leather high waisted pants; but since she's skinny, and has nice proportions, Abdul is doing the best that can be done with such intrinsically awful pants. And so, Abdul here not only looks fit, for a 40-something pop teevee celebrity, she is verging on looking dignified. This is no mean accomplishment. The whole presentation would actually warrant a nod of respect if her eyeballs were not shellacked open with war paint. Admittedly it's a tricky balance for all of us past 30. I'd say she should stick with the eyeliner and mascara, and ditch the shadow.
Also, on closer inspection, the jacket's a tad too busy to pair with both glitter pinstripes AND leather. But still, I give it a general thumbs up.
can we talk about how horrifying the makeup is?
She totally looks like Jasmine Guy, who really is too young to play grannie to a teenager on TVD.
I really like the blouse. That's about it, but it isn't hideous, like normal. So, by defult, I guess she's fab.
The outfit itself might look sort of hot, or at least not batshit crazy, on a random starlet. Someone younger. On Miss Paula Abdul however it looks bizarre. Perhaps she realized this, and that is why she is wearing makeup that makes her look like someone else.
I'm with Christina @ 2:10.
I have always loved the word gargantuan!
So here it goes, a GREAT BIG GARGANTUAN NO!
She only has 2 buttons that you can see above that chest/waist area. Just smacks of fug, proportionally.
She is about a hop skip away from a jump suit, ewwwwww!
She looks like she's been tamed. Overall, it's an improvement.
Am I the only one who is so disturbed by her morphing into Jasmine Guy that I find the pants beside the point? Now THAT is witchcraft, people. Straight up.
I like it except it's Paula and I am expecting her to do something crazy that will forevermore ruin this outfit for me...like tripping over one of her chihuahuas and breaking her nose
I'm pretty sure this is Paula's idea of a conservative business suit.
The pants would be awful alone and the jacket would be weird with more normal-waisted pants...but together, they really do work. I'm shocked; I really did think there was NO good way to wear high-waisted pants.
Her makeup is, um, problematic, and I quibble over whether those shoes are really the best choice for that outfit, but for Paula, this is pretty solid.
I thinkshe looks great. Love the pants with those shoes! She looks really feminine, classy and put together. The only iffy thing (at least to me) is her makeup. That lower lid eyeliner is not doing anyone any favors.
It's a little bit on the matador side and I'm thinking she can run with the bulls in Pamplona wearing this, but she's looking kinda cute in a very orange way.
Considering some of her past outfits, I think we should be grateful and give the girl an IN.
Those are the first good-looking pair of high-waisted pants I've seen. They make Paula look like she has a tiny waist. Or maybe the tiny-waisted Paula makes the pants look good. On consideration, I suspect the latter.
Why no tiara?
Seriously, different shirt and normal tuxedo pants and I'd like.
Not bad actually. My least favorite part is the sleeves sticking out of the jacket. If this was an Unfug It Up, I would nix the sleeves so you couldn't see them poking out of the jacket, and push the collar of the shirt in. Or maybe replace the shirt entirely with a more simple t-shirt like thing.
Otherwise I think she's totally working it! The pants could be a disaster, but they somehow work. The shoes are perfect, and I'm in all sorts of love with the jacket.
I actually don't mind the pants, she's pulling them off. Shoes are fine, overall she looks a lot more pulled together (i.e. not mental) than she has in the past, and she looks kind of youthful. The shirt is weird with the jacket, she could have gone without the jacket and just worn a shirt with shorter sleeves, or a jacket with longer sleeves and less detailing.
Look, for Paula, this is about as good as it gets. I give her props.
While she IS sort of working the pants, I just can't get behind the concept of high-waited leather. And she TOTALLY looks like Jasmine Guy in this photo. Weird.
I think she should have gone all out and dared to brave a leather jumpsuit. It would be fug, but it would also be funny.
Why is anyone questioning this? HIGH WASTED LEATHER PANTS! And they are all bunchy. Tacky blouse--looks like Kohls clearance. Plus...is that a wig? If that is real hair then it is somehow styled to look just like a wig. Why?
Really, this is a step up for her. The whole thing kind of elongates her petite frame and not inappropriate as is her usual look...
Whoa, just noticed that the toenails match the shoes! Like they're covered with aluminum foil!
Could those pants be any higher? Srsly?
The pants kind of work, they could even potentially work with that shirt. The blazer and the shirt cuffs sticking out is what's killing it for me. I feel like a younger woman could work this with just a simple tee, and be fine. But to add sophistication, I'm not sure what needs to be done. But the pants- they work.
So far as I'm concerned this somewhat works, but what impresses me most is that Michael Jackson seems to have started an eerie posthumous life as Paula Abdul. One thing I will say---he looks better as Paula than he looked as Michael. So: not altogether a mistaken nove.
Jeepers Creepers High Waist Believers!
It's hard to believe at this moment, a grand total of 68% of you delightful fuggers think GOOD/MAYBE!?! I would like to see a different angle pic on those fugly shoes. In the close up it looks like there is fringe on the back of them!
Her face scares me. There's quite a lot of Michael Jackson going on there, and it's very unsettling.
Hello. This is Paula A. Look at her!
She looks fabulous. I can forgive the high-waisted pants. She is working them!
Of all the things she's worn, this is the one I might steal from her. That's saying a whole lot. Lots. And lots.
It's working, as long as she's standing. And with Paula...she might not be standing long.
More importantly, Jasmine Guy has a show and no one told me!
My mind had not really wrapped itself around "high-waisted leather pants". I mean, it would take some major hallucinigens (OK, cannot SPELL that word) to take me to the place where this article of clothing exists and is worn by someone. And, yet, here it is. Will wonders never cease?
They actually kind of work on Paula - and she looks good. Again, must be the magic mushrooms, as I can't believe I'm saying any of this. Someone get me some nachos and floor pillows so I don't crack my head open as I pitch forward in a leather-pants-induced haze.
Too high waisted. It might work otherwise.
No, no, no, Jessica. It's the fever talking. There is NOTHING good about high-waisted leather pants with a shiny shiny sheer striped shirt (say it 3X fast) with a black bra on under it. You are too ill to realize this. It's like if you were trapped in the desert without any diet coke, and a rescue plane drops off a diet RC, and you are FORCED to drink it, and then that becomes the best diet cola YOU HAVE EVER HAD. This is the same thing. We are so used to seeing Paula dressed like a hostage from the Deb shop's employee reunion in 1985 that we're willing to extend her props when she wears something that is maybe not insane, but just merely atrocious. We will take any little crumb from her. But that doesn't make high-waisted leather pants right. No. This is my line in the sand. Now pass me my diet RC.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. you do have a fever. no no no!
If you sit down and feel the button of the pants touching your boob, you know the waist is a too high! These pants make me uncomfortable by just looking at them. I mean, they must feel as high as they look...wouldn't you think? Ouch!
If you sit down and feel the button of the pants touching your boob, you know the waist is a too high! These pants make me uncomfortable by just looking at them. I mean, they must feel as high as they look...wouldn't you think? Ouch!
This appears to be the drunken offspring of Teri Hatcher and Michael Jackson.
No.
The seams look bad. Without the flatest, or even concave stomach, it looks like the way old man pants look when they are pulled up real high. It just emphasizes gut.
BLECH.
Change her hair + the shirt and I would love the outfit!
Change her hair + the shirt and I would love the outfit!
The wighat's gotta go. But the outfit could work if the jacket was bolero-length. Olé!
All she needs is an enormous whip and an elephant in the background to balance on a ball.
Considering it is Paula Abdul ... it is very good. Anyone else, meh!
She looks better when the picture is smaller. In the small photo, I could tell it was Paula Abdul, but it looked like the outfit had better porportion. Close up, she's just too overdone and the pants look like it's a bustier/pant combo rather than just pants with a REALLY long zipper!
Fix the hair (god, it looks greasy), take off the jacket, wear a skin-colored bra underneath the shirt.
WHY DO I NOT HATE THESE PANTS???
I can get over everything about this look but the hair. The hair is godawful.
Compared to what Paula usually wears... this looks great! Maybe not on most people, but I think she's actually pulling this one off (at least by comparison).
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I mean... whoa.
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The outfit works....the hair, not so much.
She looks pretty good here. Proud of her!
Yes she's committed far worse but it still looks vile on her. Were it someone like Marion Cotillard wearing it i'd probably like.
Hate the hair, hate the makeup. I wouldn't wear the outfit, but for her... not bad. Not unflattering.
The outfit is youthful and cute; the hair and makeup is tired and old. Not hard to figure out which should go.
Not digging the high waist. (Why do people keep wearing them? Why?) Also not into the black under light-colored sheer blouse. The hair looks a bit wig-like, though shiny.
But.
Ms. Abdul is looking pretty darn good. Especially considering the wackadoo looks she's sported in the past. Loving the silver stripe and shoes, the champagne clutch, and light manicure. Is that silver on her toes? I kinda like that.
You know-- she is working it. I'm starting to think high waisted leather pants might be-- sort of--slimming? Like leather shapewear? No? If it had been a high-waisted leather pencil skirt, would we even be having this conversation? If Jasmine Guy is a grandma, Paula could guest star as a great-great grandmother? <3 u Whitley!
Sorry Paula!! Super FUGGGG!! She should go to sachika.com where she can actually look hot and never look fugly again!!
Are sure that isn't Jasmine Guy?
Nog digging the see-through shirt even though I understand she's doing the match-thing with that and the purse. Other than that, fab! Those pants are like the perfect fit and it makes her look as if she has legs for days. Not easy to pull off on someone as short as Paula. But Dear Paula, less dancing and more eating -- your face looks gaunt.
Ok, not such a great look. But she also looks so skinny here! Take away the jacket and padded shoulders and she is almost at the Rachael Zoe giant-head stage, at least in the first picture.
Incidentally, that's why she's almost rocking the high-waisted leather jeans -- because if you're vanishingly small to begin with, the unflattering cut makes you look healthily larger instead of the Jessica-Simpson-mom-jeans look, which, as cute as Jess is, was really not a good look at all.
Ok, I voted "good." I quite like that sheer pink shirt she has on and the leather pants work surprisingly well considering that they're... uh... leather pants. What detracted from this look for me is that notched, "sweetheart" patterned waist on the pants.
Umm . that WIG is hideous ...girl can afford a lot better one, I am sure
I mean, for Paula she doesn't look that bad. However, that wig is hideous!!
Love that you referenced Tardy for the Party!!!!
On anyone else, I would pull a "oh hells no," but it's Paula Abdul and it could be a billion kajillion times worse. Though if the pants weren't as high, or there was a cummerbund, I think it would be a touch better. I don't know.
The jacket works, though maybe not that ringmaster-bedazzled type one, in particular. And maybe if she had swept the hair from her face this would be a winner.
I agree with the first anonymous commenter that she IS sort of working it. The hair/makeup/orange-ish skin aren't doing her any favors, though, and she looks hella skinny. But you've got to consider that it's Paula and, with that in mind, this just doesn't qualify as crazy. Good job lady!
OK, but has anyone looked at the horizontal seam running across those pants at the hips? It's like someone took a pair of regular leather pants and SEWED ON another piece of leather to make them high-waisted (wasted?)! She would've been better off with a cummerbund or something.
You need orange juice Jessica? Try juicing Paula's face - that colour is not natural!
On a more positive note, I quite like the trousers, although I think the waist may be a little too high. A plain shirt would've been better and the sleeves are too long, I don't like that turned up cuffs look. And as much as I like the blazer, I think it'd have been a smarter, crisper look without it.
And I want her shoes.
For Paula, this is genius. For anyone else, a little bit regrettable.
I feel like I have to grade her on a curve since this Paula Abdul we're talking about. Based on that curve, I think she looks fantastic. On her planet this is subtle and mature. Yes, I can look past the fact that she probably thinks she'll fly to the moon, flapping those cuffs, so she can dance with MC Skat Kat after the event, and see that this is about the best I have ever seen her dress.
Shirt? Yes. Jacket? Yes. Pants? NO. No, no, no. High waisted pants do not look good on anyone. Neither do spray tan accidents.
She - the outfit, the hair, the whole look - reminds me of Claire Huxtable. Or the mom on Fresh Prince, who was (who are we kidding?) basically Claire Huxtable-lite. None of which is bad, per se, but neither is it the best sartorial choice for Paula.
I want to forget these pants were ever invented. Also, har hair is going very triangular. Can I please have dreams like your's?
Y'all, the notch in the top of the pants reminds me of my post-Thanksgiving Aunt Rita with the top button popped on her fancy pants. Un. Fortunate. Also, black lingerie under sheer shirts needs to die. DIIIIIE. The jacket is moderately non-hideous, but c'mon, the rest is painful.
Paula has been going to EVERYTHING lately. If there is a red carpet or an ice cube's chance in hell that a photographer will be present, she's there. I think she looks great on the outside. It's the inside I'm worried about. I would rather critique the outfit of the little girl on the inside.
Little Paula is wearing some hand-me-down jeans and an ugly t-shirt her cousin gave her. She's pulled the afghan over her little shoulders and wraps it tightly around her, because she's scared.
She's scared because she doesn't exist. If there are no photographers or "fans" present to reflect her image in their eyes, camera lenses and screams for her attention, then she simply doesn't exist, and that is terrifying. She's barefoot and her feet are dirty, and she pulls the afghan tighter and tighter around her, as she tries harder to see her reflection in the camera lens.
She looks fabulous from far away. Close up... not so much. But everything in the outfit shouldn't work, so I think she deserves some credit for that.
She looks like she should be in the circus
She looks OK, which, for Paula Abdul, means she looks fantastic. But did the bra have to be black?
If you look really closely at her shoes, there's some sort of.....tail on the back of them, like a horse's tail.
She had me at that silver toe nail polish that perfectly matches her silver shoes - fierce!
This is the most "normal" she's looked in quite awhile (if ever). I actually kinda like it...
Two words: David Bowie.
I think she looks great. She's very pretty. I do prefer her hair straight though.
She always dresses like a long-lost Jackson.
Wow. She really is a ringer for Guy in this photo. It's very confusing, because I'm ascribing coolness to her which is clearly not deserved. Those pants are heinous on Abdul; if it were Guy, not so much.
wow you can actually see the line on the pants where they might have been acceptable and then what looks like an EXTENSION as if to say f*** you everyone im having this up to my boobs
Whats with all the make-up? She always looked so great for her age, but on this picture she looks like Rachel, when Ross helped her putting on her make-up
She's taken up bullfighting.
PAb appears to be wearing SILVER toenail polish, which in this photo has the unfortunate tendency to appear more like gangrenous rotting toes than any sort of fashion statement. I'm sorry, but if that's "fierce" I hereby lay down my fashion card forever and just resign myself to a life lived in Old Navy Performance Fleece.
Same jacket as we fugged on October 14th, guys! Paula Abdul - way to recycle like a real person. However... eh, possibly choose something that doesn't look like a ringmaster's jacket from a goth circus next time?
What the heck did she do to her face!?!?!? Much more disturbing than her outfit, although the pants fit wierd, I love the jacket.
I agree. The jacket is a problem, and so is the makeup.
A shorter, more tailored jacket with puffed shoulders and with less sloppy shirt fabric popping out at the collar and arms, classy makeup, and a black bag and shoes would fix all the problems.
The pants and hair are working.
It was actually ok for me until I got to the close-up shot.
If I scroll down my browser window juuuust far enough that it cuts off Paula's head, I likey! I likey a lot! She's working it from the neck down.
But then I scroll up again, and I see the disheveled hair and the creepy smile and the heavy make-up. She looks like a walking photo-negative of Jack Nicholson's 'Joker,' ie: not-so-chic. Although maybe with a top hat...?
Nah.
I thought it was Jasmine Guy too! For Paula, gotta give her some credit here. This is the least wacky she's looked in years. If anyone else was wearing this, it would only be a "meh"
I don't give a darn about the outfit, but the makeup is seriously freaking me out. Whoever said "long-lost Jackson" was spot on.