You might think I would object to this dress on the basis of the giant flower alone.
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Not true. There is potential in that flower. It has gumption. It would walk into a CEO's office, straight past the protesting assistant, and demand to be considered for a promotion. No, more than that, it would impersonate its boss while said boss is recovering from a broken leg sustained during a skiing accident, borrow liberally from the boss's wardrobe, arrange a major deal with Harrison Ford that involves crashing a dude's daughter's wedding just to convince him to take a meeting with you, get a horrendous haircut that's supposed to be more chic and professional than her teased-up ferry-proof hair, dump stupid cheating Alec Baldwin, and then win the day and an office of her own when the boss returns and tries to claim the brilliant deal idea as her own -- all while delivering its lines with the diction of a 13-year old girl who accidentally drank a glass of scotch. That flower has moxie.
But those shoes have a giant blackhead. And the blue print blossoms on the skirt are kind of distracting, like the dress fell down hard and bruised itself. Not to mention that Leighton's lank mane is kind of competing with the bloom that's growing from her torso. There is a lot going on here, and what I'm saying is, I don't think all blame can be pinned on the very dramatic chest flower.
In the interests of full disclosure, or at least as full as I can make it, here is a photo that shows the back:
[Photos: WENN.com]
Not true. There is potential in that flower. It has gumption. It would walk into a CEO's office, straight past the protesting assistant, and demand to be considered for a promotion. No, more than that, it would impersonate its boss while said boss is recovering from a broken leg sustained during a skiing accident, borrow liberally from the boss's wardrobe, arrange a major deal with Harrison Ford that involves crashing a dude's daughter's wedding just to convince him to take a meeting with you, get a horrendous haircut that's supposed to be more chic and professional than her teased-up ferry-proof hair, dump stupid cheating Alec Baldwin, and then win the day and an office of her own when the boss returns and tries to claim the brilliant deal idea as her own -- all while delivering its lines with the diction of a 13-year old girl who accidentally drank a glass of scotch. That flower has moxie.
But those shoes have a giant blackhead. And the blue print blossoms on the skirt are kind of distracting, like the dress fell down hard and bruised itself. Not to mention that Leighton's lank mane is kind of competing with the bloom that's growing from her torso. There is a lot going on here, and what I'm saying is, I don't think all blame can be pinned on the very dramatic chest flower.
In the interests of full disclosure, or at least as full as I can make it, here is a photo that shows the back:
More blue stuff. Of course, that does make the front part seem less random, but unfortunately no less like someone threw a tennis ball really hard at Leighton's hip and we're seeing the painful result.
So while I don't think I'd call this FUG, per se, I wouldn't proclaim the whole look fab, either. I suspect I'd like to wish away the pattern and change her shoes, and maybe sweep up the hair in a cute little updo. What would you do? Assuming, that is, that you'd do anything at all. Play nice in the comments, please. Remember to be on-topic, remember to be nice to each other, remember the Titans, remember remember the fifth of November, etc.
This just needs fewer elements competing with the flower.
I love the dress and she's working the flower thing. However, I loathe the shoes. Seriously, she couldn't find something better than that in her bottomless closet? Also, her hair does need to be up. It just doesn't work with her hair competing so hard with the dress.
Sweep the hair back/up and change the shoes. The dress itself is cute.
Forget the blue flowers, change the shoes, and actually style the hair instead of letting it air-dry with no product, and you've got a winner!
I really feel like those low-heeled, skinny-strapped, tumor-laden shoes are the biggest problem here.
Yeah, it's the shoes. Not to mention the other black accessories. Although, you're right, It *does* look like someone lobbed a tennis ball at her hip...
Definitely an updo and change the shoes. I also feel like maybe the flower is too up-front-and-centre. I'm not usually a fan of this, but maybe a bit more towards the shoulder or something?
The dress doesn't look well made. Is it just me or do the seams and hems look horribly uneven?
I'm on the shoes ship. They belong in the Fugly Hall of Infamy
For the record, giant flower of moxie = love.
Give her a simple updo, kill the pattern on the skirt (both sides), murder the shoes and toss them in a river far, far away, and take in the bottom of the skirt - either it isn't quite fitted correctly or needs heavy ironing, but I'm willing to bet on the former.
Also, I admit I'm not too sure about the whole 'wrap a belt around it to allow black accessories' scenario. But that can be allowed to slide as it's so much less painful than everything else.
Has it been considered that the undeniably gorgeous Leighton Meester may have a slight body flaw? I'm thinking those shoes are are not a bad fashion choice, but more a sad necessity. Four words, people: velvet floral bunion camouflage.
I really like the dress. The shoes...just..no.ugh, so distracting! Would have been much with strappy black booties or such
WHAT was that movie? I must include it on my Netflix.
I actually like the dress. It reminds me of water color painting but I like it.
Get rid of the giant tumour on the shoes, and lose the random dark blue bruise print.
I, personally, quite like the giant flower!
She needs to do something with her hair - a cute pony or updo would solve the problem - the flower needs room to breathe.
As for the Blue stuff - either get rid of it entirely or get more of it.
Burn the shoes and pray that no one saw the photos of her in them.
Also, something's wrong with the skirt on that dress - is it just me or does it look tight? Why is it wrinkled like that? If it was smoothed out, I'd like this a lot better.
The dress is cute and she looks really radiant. But these shoes are just awful!
LOVE the dress. Change the shoe- something simple. Pull the hair back. Done!
The hem of the dress should come down to about an inch above her knees, or else to mid-calf; either way should relieve some of the bunching on her hips. Ultra high heels (without pompoms on the toes!). Hair in an up-do. There are some earrings peeking out, and they look like they need to be replaced or removed.
Why has no one mentioned how cheap and tacky the purse is? A clutch would do nicely.
First feed her a Sandwhich - she's too skinny
Love the dress/pattern/flower made from several napkins.
Don't like the colour - it's just so old knicker coloured. Imagine it RED! That would rock ones proverbial socks!
I actually like the flower, but would move it out of the center of her chest. Maybe up on one shoulder, or perhaps at her waist. And the shoes must GO! Something strappy, and high, and maybe metallic.
Leighton's dress is amazing and looks killer on her, but the colour is AWFUL - it washes her out and clashes with the black belt. I would make the dress a deep red (without the horrible print) and otherwise keep it exactly the same. Oh and the shoes HAVE to go - I'd keep the black but make them cute shiny pumps. Voila! Hotness personified!
There is too much. TOO. MUCH. Lose the flower and the black dot shoes, or just the shoes, or perhaps downsize the flower. It's all overkill.
Dress is perfect. She needs s sleek bun, tear drop silver earrings and nude patent leather pumps. Voila, perfection!
It reminds me of Demi's last fug.
No to bruising and blackheads! Otherwise, dress has a cute cut and shape.
I also really like the blue flowers on the dress. But more the colors of blue all together than their random sparseness. So I say, ad more blue flowers to make a more consistent print.Or maybe not even flowers but a blue print as it is on her butt. But leave the big chest flower show piece as is.
Then clearly fix the shoes and the hair.
ITA about the shoes and the hair. Although I must take a moment to covet her incredible skin. She looks luminous. Even the no-lipstick thing works for her, due to the gorgeous skin.
Like the famous "more cowbell" sketch, I say MORE FLOWERS! The print in the front is too non-existent. The big one on her backside is awesome. If it was a more allover print I would like it better. This is too in the middle.
I would also like to see a more defined hem line. It looks like someone tucked it under to make it look shorter. I believe I did this once or twice myself in my teens, when I had no idea what I was doing and couldn't afford a tailor. Leighton cannot claim any of these excuses. Well maybe the no idea what she's doing. That's the only explanation for those shoes.
Throw her purse and her shoes in the garbage. Put her hair up. Totally agreed. Then she will be working this not as a part time job, but a full time job.
There is something very pretty about this dress, especially in the angle from the back, but I agree that the blue on the back and the skirt should be removed. And the shoes changed. She's working the flower.
I like the print on the front, it anchors the print on the bow. Lose the print on the back. Hair up. Needs sassy, closed-toed, de-puffed black shoes.
I would have no problem with this actually, and might file it under the "fab" category, if it weren't for the shoes. It looks like she's decorating her feet with Mickey Mouse's ears. Very distracting (and distressing???).
I, quite frankly, would like that bow on everything I own.
Like the dress, but lose the purse completely. Hair half pulled back or up would really be pretty. Except...
I think the shoes have balls. Literally.
Loose the lobster bib/flower, change the color of the dress, different shoes.
The shoes are horrendous and seem to be making her stand weird, although NOW I get why they've all been instructed to do the "cross your legs like you really have to pee" stance for photographers...
So yeah, fix shoes and get a pedicure, lose flowers, change the fabric color to just about anything else, and sweep up the hair...oh and fix the hem so it doesn't look like I personally sewed it/stapled it/affixed it with gum.
Wouldn't change a thing about the dress.
Take the blob off of the shoes. (Maybe even make them closed-toe, too...)
The hair isn't bad, but just for a finishing touch, I'm going to request an up-do. Maybe a bun, but not severe -- make it mildly tousled.
Voila!
This reminds me of the Demi dress (oil streak-fabric, bizarre bow at the top). Same designer, perhaps? Anyone know?
I like the fabric very much. In fact, I like the dress in general, even with the huge flower. I think you occasionally have to go big or go home on some details. The backlessness is okay, as it offsets the intentionally overly sweet flower in front (woot...double adverb day.
HOWEVER, I am starting to get as sick of random belts as I am of hoove shoes. The belt and the stupid-ass shoes ruin this. I say either no belt, or a softer-colored one. And the shoes look like ear muffs broken in half and glued onto the tops of shoes. Weird. Not even cool or groovy ugly. Not even SWINTON could pull those off.
I am in agreement with almost every other comment here -- do something with the hair (a pretty updo, perhaps?) and lose the shoes. Going barefoot would have been better than that.
I love everything but those horrendous shoes!! UGGHHHH!!!
I love the flower, love the pattern, just love the dress in general, but am definitely in the what is up with the shoes and hair camp. One thing more with which I have an issue though is Leighton's grumpy slash sultry pants! Her adorable smile would have majorly improved this entire outfit.
Since reading other comments, I DO notice that the dress seems poorly made...hmmm
Anyways, the dress needs either more pattern or less. Remove the lame bag and hideous shoes. Replace with pumps and a cute clutch. I'd actually like to see her hair bigger, with more volume and curl; OR short and straight. I still think an updo would be competing with the flower. The hair needs to be simple, but more interesting to be on par with the dress.
@Nicole: The movie is Working Girl with Sigourney Weaver (boss that has the skiing accident), Melanie Griffith (plucky assistant, not as dumb as she looks), and Harrison Ford (as, well, Harrison Ford). It is 80's-tastic!
Pull the hair up somehow. Basic shoe. I don't care for the chain strap on the purse either. Give her a clutch.
I love the colors in this dress and the shape is excellent, just change the styling a bit. kthx.
When I first scrolled down to the shoes, I thought she was standing back on her heels with the toes tipped up (ie, I thought I was seeing the bottom of her shoes because she was standing like a nincompoop). Remove the poof from the shoes, remove the belt, and change the color of the ink blots to some other non-bruise shade of the rainbow.
I think the dress in concept might be lovely. The execution is terrible. It either doesn't fit right or it desperately needs to be ironed. It's like a bad project runway experiment where they only had twenty minutes to shop for materials, design, and sew, so they cut the fabric incorrectly, forgot to get the model's hair done, and just picked up the first shoes they found on the accessories shelf. Heidi would be displeased.
"I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?"
Love the Working Girl reference. If only Leighton had a Joan Cusack in her life.
Nicole wrote:
"WHAT was that movie? I must include it on my Netflix."
The movie was "Working Girl", with Melanie Griffith providing the slightly drunk 13 year old delivery.
Change the shoes to something cute and strappy and pull up the hair. other than that, I kind of like the dress, giant flower, weird blue pattern, and all.
Love the dress - hate the shoes. She couldn't come up with anything better than that?
Looks like she has a broken ink pen in a pocket somewhere. A hidden pocket. Easy to find the pocket now, I guess.
Love the shoes, love the dress, but not together.
We should all be stylists because everyone is right that the dress is cute, but those shoes - THOSE SHOES!! - are awful and her hair should be up.
I heart Tess McGill. Leighton Meester? Is not Tess McGill. A body for sin maybe, but a head for business? I'm not sure ...
I've looked at this a couple times and the shoes have grown on me. I love that she combined modern funky-ish accessories with that gorgeous, soft, feminine dress. She looks like a living flower.
J'ADORE that dress. I've have worn other shoes too though.
I don't mind the dress, but those shoes are just....embarrassing. And the hair should definitely be in a nice updo. What was this girl thinkin'?!
I love it from the waste up - hate the rest. So make it a blouse + navy pencil skirt + silver pumps.
i actually really like the dress, but the shoes are a disaster with it.
hair, flower, shoes, splotches. too much! tone it down and pick one element to be outrageous with.
If she had her hair up, I could stand the flower on the chest. I'm even ok with the flower bruise on the hip area, but I'm not ok with the "I'd like this a little bit shorter so I'll tape it or something" hem.
I'm also not EVER ok with open-toed shoes and naked toenails. The blackheads on the shoes are downright disturbing, but I'd forgive them if she had some color on her toes.
the shoes make it look like her feet are leaning on their outside edges.
which is what i do when I'm bored.
Augh, the shoes are what kills it for me. I think everything would be fine is she did away with the giant black dot and painted her toenails! Naked toes make any sandal seem worse. And yeah, an updo would be nice.
Just a comment to Megan: Bunions are on the big toe joint, so there goes that theory. Unfortunately those shoes serve no practical or aesthetic purpose.
I can get past most of it but that wonky hem is driving me crazy!
Also, the shoes need to die in a fire.
Hair needs to go up. Shoes should stay black, but for the love of god get rid of the poof and get some pumps. And if she must go peep toe, she also needs to throw some polish on those toes. Hem at the skirt looks a little sloppy but that could just be the fabric.
An up-do for the hair. That lank stuff is dragging down the flower. The shoes - closed toe, neutral. And I think the skirt part needs to be 1 - 2 inches longer to give more power to the flower.
I really like the dress. The hair and the shoes tho, are awful. And maybe it's just me, but I HATE the bare leg look with dressy clothes. It just looks unfinished.
Adding one more to the 'lose the shoes and for god's sake put your hair up, girl' crowd... I also agree with the poster who mentioned how the dress appeared to be cheaply made. I actually quite like the pattern on the dress, but the way nothing lines up at the seams makes it look like a losing design on Project Runway.
Yep, it's the hem that's ruining it for me too! (Though the shoes are obviously crazypants as well.)
I like her hair, make-up and dress. She just needs better shoes. Something simple with a higher heel.
It should've been a scroll down fug.
she should be wearing those new dianne von furstenberg shoes and the dress should be in a more basic neutral one color
are you understanding any of this?
the shoes are just.. too much! there's way too much flowerstuff going on.
love the dress though, she's totally working it!
I'm not on board with the belt or shoes, they weigh down the look.
The shoes are terrible with the dress...just awful. A simple silver shoe would be nice. Also, the purse isn't quite right. I'd prefer a clutch.
I think the flowers on the shoes are over kill. and the fact that Leighton has a slight cankle problem (don't tell me you hadn't noticed before) and she chooses to accentuate it with ankle straps. not pretty
Personally I love the dress, she looks great in it! She should lose the shoes though.
Credit where it's due, her makeup is fab.
Minus those horrible shoes and the bruise plus clean blown out hair and it's all fab, even with the flower which I like, and I'm not generally one for giant flowers, but LM is sooo long and lean that I think she carries it.
Up-do, up-do, up-do!! I think it would look much better if we could see her neck. I also think the dress could be cute... with maybe more blue in the front so that it doesnt look like the dress stood too close to the tennis court and wasnt paying attention. And get rid of the shoes, how an off centered giant black poof is supposed to look ok EVER is beyond me. And please do remember the 5th of November because its my birthday!
the shoes are a crime against nature...they are awful
im not crazy about the fat flower bodice....
but if you must have the fat flower bodice, get rid of the belt
i also dislike the lone ink-blot flower on the front of her dress...
looks like she dropped a bottle of ink on her lap
I think it's great-- I don't like the blue blotch by her hip-- it competes too much. The shoes are wrong wrong wrong. A simple black or silver pump would be much better.
I can't be bothered to read all these comments, but in case no one else has mentioned it, does it not seem as though Leighton's left eye has more makeup than her right? Is this more fuel for the battered and bruised theme?
I can't be bothered to read all these comments, but in case no one else has mentioned it, does it not seem as though Leighton's left eye has more makeup than her right? Is this more fuel for the battered and bruised theme?
what more need be said, i agree with 99.9% of the comments. So just wanted to say Hi! (I personally wouldn't wear that frock, but hey....)
Love the dress.
Hate the shoes.
That is all.
This is the number 1 look of the day on style.com so a lot of people seem to like it! haha It's interesting that this look can be winning the look of the day on style.com but still show up on gofugyourself.
http://www.style.com/community/lookoftheday/
It's the shoes. They're disproportionate and weird. Everything else is super cute.
Let's dismiss the shoes first thing. They are abysmal. We don't need our eye to be drawn to the shoe, only to be sucked in by the big black hole sitting on top. We never return to the dress but instead, with our head down, we quickly turn away so she can't see the wee smile that has crept on our face.
Which is good and bad, as the dress is good and bad. The concepts don't fail - but the dress looks poorly made, the hem appears bulbous, the stitching looks heavy. In the hands of the right seamstress, this look could succeed.
The print is unnecessary as the bow is the star of the dress. Them shoes, though. Looks like a couple of black tribbles have attached themselves to her toes, and you know what THAT means? Trouble, my friends, trouble with a Vulcan Capital T. Beam me outta here, Scotty!
I wouldn't mind the weird dark blue pattern on the dress if there was no bow. She looks like she attacked a windmill ala Don Quixote, and like Don Quixote, she lost. The shoes are horribly fussy and weird, and I don't like them at all.
Though I am not normally a huge fan of the belted dress no matter how big that look is these days, I don't hate it in this case, and feel that if she had some nice looking black shoes, it would pull together nicely.
I don't think the hair is bad, but agree with posters who suggested that this would have worked better with an up-do. The make up works for me as well.
Those shoes, omg.
Blair would never pair those things with that dress or any other dress--or outfit for that matter.
Get with it Leighton & burn them. It's really for the best.
Pattern would be better if the dark blue were more evenly dispersed (e.g. not just two big blobs in front). OR not there at all.
Bow is way cute but I'd lose the belt on the dress. It competes too. Dress should be more fitted through waist.
Upswept hair, for sure.
Ditto the shoes. Pumps or strappy without other decoration.
Thinner, silver belt
+ Silver pumps
+ Silver purse
= Cute teenage girl
better shoes, get rid of the print in front and back, then it might be okay.
I think it looks good. It is risky and an updo might have been better so there was less going on, but I think it's a risk that overall pulled off. The main thing I would change is the shoes...swap it out with nice sleek black pumps that are not also adorned with something poufy and I think it would have been perfect.
Her legs are perfect, I am not sure what imagined flaw the "cankle" commenter above is referring to. I think this whole look is fab, I love the irreverent shoes.
@Dinsdale-- wasn't Sharon Stone in something similar, with a red splotch, about two years ago?
Agree with the general accessory judgement. The dress would be fine either without the pattern or with brilliant teal instead of papermate-pen-blue.
Love the dress as-is - I HATE the satellite-dish shoes, however. A simple strappy heel would've been enough.
dear god just change the shoes and we'll all it even
Am I the only one who's being reminded of the dress Demi Moore wore a week ago?
ps: The dress is growing on me, but the shoes ought to be banished. Ick.
Sweep the hair up, ditch the shoes for something that looks less like the dark cousin of that Red Spot that used to be the logo/mascot for 7-Up, and always be sure to Remember the Alamo!
Umm, the hem-job on that dress is awful! Hire a decent seamstress pronto!
And she should have worn different shoes, upswept her hair, and oh, I don't know; SMILED! It's a dress with HUGE flowers, crack a grin. Geez.
I think the flower thing could be toned down a bit, and the shoes look hideous from this angle (is it just me or do they look like fug flats??). Anywho, from different angles the shoes look amazing (i.e. on their side). The dress is hot though, i love the colour of it and the blue patches...I do love the hair and make up
I'm confused by this whole outfit. I think I might like the dress without the gigantic flower. I like the color. I don't mind the "bruise"-like spots on the front and back. But those shoes are simply ridiculous!
she needs a pedicure. that is all.
hair up, new shoes. simple black peep-toes maybe?
...and her skin does look AMAZING.
I agree with Heather: the flower has moxie, but the shoes have blackheads and are about as appealing as blackheads. Loose the shoes and I think we're halfway there. I'd be interested to see what would happen if the skirt were slightly longer and fuller, say a gored skirt or maybe a short A-line, but the real problem here is the wonky hem and the fact that it doesn't fit right. This isn't a case of going up a size, it's actually badly made.
the dress is nice, maybe with less details it would be better, but i am a slight leighton freak, and i think she can pull off a multitude of sins, so i might not love it on anyone but her.
her hair and make-up is great, the bag is inoffensive, but those shoes. good. lord. seriously worrying.
I'm actually fond of the dress, but I'm with you on the shoes: MISTAKE. Oh Leighton - I like you so, but I'm worried, what with the leather thing you seem to be "wearing" in your new vid and this. :(
Hate the shoes, absolutely. Silver would have been infinitely better. I would like the dress if the pattern were matched at the seam...it's not like she bought this at Marshalls, right? Whoever made this could have sprung for more fabric to match the flower or had the seams hit where there was no flower. Ditto bad hem. Poorly made, I agree.
It's UBER FUG! It looks like she has a giant pin wheel plastered to her chest.
It looks like a fountain pen exploded all over her dress while she rummaged through her broken-legged boss' desk drawers looking for the all important Harrison Ford file.
this is leighton meester and i love her!
i saw it, got shocked for a second and then a wave of my adoration for her flew over me, and i was left thinking it's so out there and 'kooky' that it's funny and awesome!
ahem, but if we're going to get serious.
move the flowers in the shoes to the center and minimize the big flower on the dress, simples.
I love the dress from the waist up.
Sorry Leighton, your going to have to dismantel those shoes. Princess Leia called, she wants her hair pieces back.
Heart the dress, hate the shoes. (Flip flops?)I'm still unconvinced about the bow. The moxie is not strong with me. And for the love of all that is right and good, pedicure please!
Fab except the shoes!!!
Maybe shrink the flower and move it over so it's not smack dab in the middle? And lose the powder-puff on the shoes.
First shove a few cookies down her throat in the hopes that she'll rediscover the joys of the gingersnap and take it from there on her own.
Short-term fixing: rip the questionable black felt circles from her shoes, leaving what I presume to be innocuous low-heel black sandal sort of things. Throw her hair up in a bun, take away that goofy little purse thing, and throw a trench coat over the whole ensemble, and she'll look fine.
Long-term fixing: hire a different stylist. She's so adorable, there should be no question whether or not she can work any dress.
This I love, I can't help it. I love her as it is.
She does give good face, doesn't she? However, the shoes don't go with this at all, not to mention they're pure fug.
My biggest problem with the dress is the hem. Look at it, looks like it's been double-stick taped to make it shorter. She may want to have a discussion with her tailor or her bff, whoever thought tape is the same as needle and thread.
I love the dress- its kitchy and chic.
She just needs an updo e.g. bun and different shoes - and I would' have gone with navy from the dress instead of black on the shoes - but the accessories are fine.
I think if perhaps the dress was a solid color, I'd like it better - a floral print competing with a giant fabric flower is just too much. Also, the shoes are fugly, no matter what color there are. Ditch them for something classic and simple and something that matches. An updo would solve the hair problem, and then we're good to go!
I blame the hem problem on the belt pulling at the fabric of the dress while the lining stays put. Therefore, the belt must go - and take the blue splotches on the body of the dress with it. I actually like the blue splotch on the flower. I agree with those who voted for silver shoes and a silver clutch.
Also, hair MUST be in a sleek ponytail or updo.
The dress is apparently Prabal Gurung. I couldn't find a picture of it but there are several similar in the Spring 2010 collection.
See: http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/S2010RTW-PGURUNG?page=1
Hair either swept up or even pinned at the front, lose the shoes - basic peep-toes, a clutch and less random colour patches, and losing the belt
she looks pretty hot though despite this
The hair is fine. An updo would make the whole look conservative. I would ditch the black accessories, choose silver booties instead, a heavy silver bracelet AND, navy nailpolish.
You're welcome.
It looks like she sat in a ink-stained puddle. And then she dropped the cloth that she used to blot up her ink-stained ass, onto the front of her dress. And then she taped the hem up a few inches, and was nowhere near an iron to flatten the new bottom edge. Anywho.....make the dress in a solid color, give the hemline a good pressing, soften up the belt, get new shoes (silver peeps), pin up the hair, silver clutch and she's all fixed!
I like the dress itself, just not the weird fabric used to make it. A solid color would have been a much better choice. Her hair needed to be up and those shoes are just weird (not in a cool, avant garde way.)
The hair is not fabulous, but it's all right. It wouldn't get my knickers in a twist about it. But I must demur further. It's not just the shoes...We have to tell the truth: the dress also is downright awful. The mighty chest pinwheel is straight-up ugly. Ugly. And the hemline gives us crummy leg. It has got to be 2 inches longer on Meester. This dress/shoe combo is making a Hollywood girl look Easter-Sunday-in-the-fluorescent-lit-church-basement-with-a-deviled-egg-platter blah. I think you folks are overly charmed by Leighton Meester as a radiant icon of youth and beauty. But as lovely and dewy-fresh as she is in her natural (or makeup-enhanced) state, she still is not making these death-pom-pom sandals or this facial-tissue-box dress work. She may be ravishing, but her powers of distraction seem to me mortal here.
I like the dress itself, just not the weird fabric used to make it. A solid color would have been a much better choice. Her hair needed to be up and those shoes are just weird (not in a cool, avant garde way.)
Honestly I can't come up with anything to salvage this "look".
The dress is terrible, the open toe shoes a travesty, with no pedicure to boot, the belt, just no,
the bag is a nightmare...
The rhinestone jewelry, no.
I think there should be a school for starlets to learn how to successfully put a look together, or hire someone who can.
On the plus side:
She is a pretty girl, with healthy, shiny hair, and well proportioned...
How gorgeous would she look in a Chanel suit?
Those shoes are retarded.
Yes I agree.... updo, new shoes and some Big Kevs stain remover for the skirt.
Just picture perfect XOXO
The shoes are disgusting.
I can deal with the dress,
although perhaps if it was in
a solid colour it would look better.
I actually LOVE that dress, but those shoes make it look like her pinky toes are being censored. What's so bad about pinkies?
swap the bag with a clutch, those shoes with pumps, style the hair...not necessarily an updo, but something sleeker. winner. i actually like the blue on the dress.
change the shoes. done. fab.
There are two things I would change:
1) THE SHOES! Obviously. They do not go with this dress at all. Something simple, maybe in silver, would have looked a lot better.
2) While I actually am quite fond of the giant flower that's decorating the dress, I'm not so fond of the flower print that's popping up in certain places. If it had been a dress with no graphic art on it, it would just make everything look a lot sleeker.
Love the dress - horrendous shoe choice - we can all agree on that. Needs something with height to balance out the flower, maybe a fabulous Louboutin platform, hello we KNOW she has them. Pull the hair into a low messy updo, burn the purse and replace with an understated clutch and I think we're in business. At least her face looks good, unlike that horrible situation at the Emmy's...
Shoes, updo, and blue/gray/blue-gray eye makeup to make her eyes pop/match the dress. =)
I agree with everyone who says the shoes have to go. I think those shoes could work with something (perhaps) but not this dress. I think she needs basic blue heels that don't compete with the dress. The "bruise" rose and her hair don't bother me as much. Although it would be interesting seeing her with an updo in this dress and seeing if that was better.
Damn it. Now I have to find and watch Working Girl.
Not to be confused with the movie Working GirlS that came out the same year or so. Heh.
It looks to me like she tucked the skirt of the dress under to make it shorter which is why the hem looks so wonky. I think a slightly longer dress w/ higher simplier black shoes would work wonders.
yes. i love the blackhead shoes metaphor. Those shoes are so gloriously hideous that I CAN'T alter this outfit. I'm going to save this picture and file it with my Bud Light Real Men of Genius sound clip...the one where they salute the bug zapper inventor.
As someone who sews, the pattern of the fabric should have been matched up better on the side seams, especially considering how expensive that dress probably is. It kind of kills the dress for me.
LOVE the dress, love the shoes (though not with the dress), and basically adore LM so very much that she can do no wrong with me. Except that latest video. OMG, sweetie, you had your awesome moment in the back of a limo. You were wearing a silk slip and pearls and losing it to Chuck Freaking Bass. Do not mess with the formula by tarting yourself up so very tacky-like and lip-synching a really awful song. You can sing - my iPod's play count of "Good Girls Go Bad" by those douches testifies to that - but what you are choosing to sing is not good. Please rectify.
Personally, I really like the dress. I might change the black belt to a thinner, paler version. I would pull her hair back just partly, and I would get rid of the ridiculous black blobs on the shoes. Otherwise, I think it's darn cute.
I am so busy reliving and reloving Working Girl that I kind of forgot all about the dress and shoes.
Leighton should too. A complete change of outfit would fix her right up. Well, maybe...I've seen some of her other outfits.
p.s. I do like the giant chest-flower, but pre-stained dresses are just as bad as ones I self-stain (i.e. not wearable).
Remove the thick black belt. Burn her shoes so that they can never harm another innocent person. Then--now here's where it may get a little crazy--increase the amount of blue print, so that the hip-stain looks less random, and to break up the pale, wash-you-out monotony of the gray fabric.
Love the dress - hate the shoes.
I hate the entire thing; but did anyone else get the impression that she looks like a mini-Keira Knightly? Super skinny, messy hair, smeared eyeliner and an attempt at whiny or pouty expression.
I think we can all agree the shoes are a mistake. The big black bobble thing is an obvious blight, but they're also an awkward height and add to the overall cheapness of the outfit.
Which brings me to the dress. Apart from the giant flower, which you're quite right is bizarrely the best thing going for it, the oddly uneven pattern and last-minute belt make it seem all very $14.95 throw out bin at K-Mart. And Blair Waldorf would never approve of that.
The dress is strangely good. The terrible shoes draw attention to her not-so-great legs. There. I am a mean person.
luv the dress, hate the shoes and she also needs to do something with her hair, it's blah
I'm afraid that giant flower is going to reach up and strangle her at any moment. The blotchy print flowers remind me of Demi Moore's tire tread dress from the other day and the shiny black belt is mucking up the works even more. I can't even worry about the shoes
I wish she'd fix her hair up, lose the belt, shrink the smothering flower and maybe I wish that the bruisy flower prints were bigger and more generously sprinkled, or maybe that they were less bruisy colors, or maybe that they were just something else entirely.
Actually love the second pic. The two blue flowers are just too random on the front.
There's no excuse for those shoes though.
OK, is it just me or is that bag really just plain ol' stupid? Yes, the shoes are too, but has no one else notices how dumb that bag looks? Sorry, I just cannot drum up any more astute or creative adjectives; too horrified.
I object on the grounds that this person doesn't look like Leighton Meester. Why do stylists try so hard to make these pretty girls look nothing like themselves?
Also: I love the blue print (blueprint?) and would like to get rid of the neck-devouring flower and the saucers on the shoes.
Champagne comedy Working Girl material. Movies just don't use lines like Joan Cusack in WG "Six thousand dollars and it's not even leather". Ah nostalgia....
WTF are those shoes? They need chemo/radiation. The dress should have pattern all over or be solid. Hair could use a little sprucing up, otherwise OK.
I like lists. Thus...
1.) Any black sandal or slingback without an ankle strap would do. She's gorgeous, but ankle straps with winter legs just don't work. Trust me, girlfriend. I know!
2.) Love the belt.
3.) Love the jewelry. It's a shame she covered the earrings with lazy hair.
4.) Loose, low chignon.
5.) Maybe a little lighter on the makeup. Mooooore French?
6.) And I agree with the masses. Dress is cute, but the sloppy seams are distracting.
Different shoes and an updo would make this soooo much better.
The skirt should be a smidge longer and a little more a-line. As is, combined with the ankle straps, the outfit makes her legs look bulky. I actually don't mind the big splodgy flowers, in a statementy sort of way.
i think her hair and dress are fab, she just needs to lose the shoes for some simpler ones, and get rid of the bag
Updo, shoes without the pom-poms, and one colour or the other on the dress (I much prefer the silver, though).
The dress currently looks like when it was washed, someone forgot to take a pen out of their pockets.
Shoes would be fine without the silly pom-poms.
I like the dress, but it should be a bit longer, like just above the knees. That would also solve the pale legs a bit.
Get rid of the ridiculous shoes and I'm fine with everything else. Though I've noticed, I think you girls and I will just always differ on one issue: I really love random patterns that look like bruising or wine stains or whatever. Give me a white dress that has a few splotchy, smeary blobs of color scattered haphazardly across it, and it will always get FAB from me.
i like the dress but:
- would go for a platform pump
- and a box clutch
- hair up
- also, I'm not sure about the belt...
Hair up, yet goddess-y wavy, patent platform court, evening clutch so the chain doesnt piss me off on her shoulder.
Apsrt from that i love love love love loveeeeeeee it. It has TRUE GUMPTION.
Looks like its made of my mothers scarf. Just change the fabrik
The shoes remind me of Minnie Mouse - am I the only one???
That hem! Was she in the same home ec class I was in?
Love the dress, love the makeup (sultry but not too OTT and edgy enough to balance the flower), could even deal with the hair which is sort of sexy (although an artfully mussed bun could be better), but a pair of classic sky-high black patent pumps would bring this whole thing together.
It appears that she has shortened the dress herself...with a staple gun. At least press the new hem!
Like the hair, LOVE the dress, HATE the shoes.
p.s. I think the black accessories are really sophisticated: silver would have made the outfit look precious and overly-co-ordinated.
She should've worn her hair up!
I like the chest flower personally - there's room for one in the world now and again - but my main problem is that the bottom of the dress is poorly hemmed - it makes the whole dress look so cheap! The shoes have so many issues I could be here all day, but essentially they stumpify her legs, seem to have funerial clown noses jauntily askew on the toes and an ankle strap circa 1998. She needs to have the hem pressed, wear a less jarring coloured belt (perhaps a grey?), through those shoes off a cliff and replace with a leg-lengthening high court and PAINT YOUR TOENAILS FOR GOD'S SAKE, YOU'RE AT A PARTY! Sorry to go Kanye on y'all but I hate a bare toenail with eveningwear, it's just lazy.
There more wrong here than meets the eye at first glance.
Besides the bow, the flowers and the worst shoes in quite a while,
Who shortened that dress? A five year old with duct tape?
Between this stained mess of a dress and the Demi Moore stained mess of a dress, I am not sure which is worse. I am hoping it's the same designer (as both incorporate bow no-nos), and there is not more than one designer passing off ink-blot stains as fashion. For the pattern alone, this is an "Oh-Honey-No" for me.
I liked Leighton better before she released a trampy music video full of her writhing in back of a limo in a vain attempt to rip off her GG success. Also, before she put on the shoes. However, I adore the dress and would wear it in a heartbeat, bruise-y blotches and all. It just needs some better stitching in back so the top edge of the back of the dress doesn't flop around like that.
If it weren't for those damn shoes...
HATE THE SHOES!
HATE THE SHOES!
Nope. Go home and start all over.
She needs to lose the print from the dress (except that it works in the flower); a better belt (I'm at a loss--a rich deep blue color? a thin matching belt? one that winds around twice?); a big, loose bun atop her head; same makeup; a different bag--a cute black bag with a shoulder strap or a big black clutch; and slightly stacked platform black heels in a pleasing shape.
She needs to lose the print from the dress (except that it works in the flower); a better belt (I'm at a loss--a rich deep blue color? a thin matching belt? one that winds around twice?); a big, loose bun atop her head; same makeup; a different bag--a cute black bag with a shoulder strap or a big black clutch; and slightly stacked black pumps with a nicely shaped heel and a pleasing shape.
HIDEOUS SHOES.
belt(none) hair (not updo, just pinned back out of chest flower.) shoes (where to begin).... voila.
Firstly--THANK YOU for making my day with your timely reference to Working Girl. You don't know the smile you just put on my face.
And as for the dress, well let's just say it better not cost $6000. It's not even leather!
I love the bruisy pattern. The flower is crazy, but in a good way. The shoes must go, never to be seen again, on anyone, anywhere. Sweep the hair up to give the flower room to breathe, or whatever it feels compelled to do. Try to look happy.
The dress is spunky and interesting. The shoes: hideous.
While contemplating what the dress would look like without the blue pattern on the skirt, I realized it's there to complement the same blue pattern that's in the flower, making it...flower-y lol. So you have to keep the blue pattern, maybe just give a tiny bit more of it in the front because I love the color on Leighton.
Shoes MUST go. She has a tendency to wear awkwardly big-in-some-manner shoes.
I also wish it was just a TINY bit longer, above the knees.
The dress looks great, the shoes are awful though both for color with that dress and style. Bow doesn't bother me at all.
Everything you said, double for the shoes. ALSO - after taping up one's hem in a sly attempt to make the skirt shorter, one should give it a little press with a cool iron to make it less obvious.
Am I the only one who loves the shoes?? I also like the pattern of bruises on the dress - it's flattering! But the flower? Oh honey no - way too sex and the city..
The only part I kinda don't like is the whatever-those-are on her shoes. Too much. Otherwise, it fits in with the bold, dramatic looks she's being doing. On some women the huge flower bow might overpower, but I think it's a saucy touch on her.
If you want to be taken seriously, you gotta have serious hair. Doesn't apply to Leighton, but I love that line.
Front - yes
Back - no
Shoes - yeuch!
The back of the dress needs to be plain - it's got too much going on. The pattern also doesn't match! If the back was plain, this would be fine as I like the drama flower at the front.
Shoes need to be burnt!
I like her hair down. I think hair up would be too fussy and too old with this style of dress. Loose and relaxed lets the flower take all the attention.
The dress should be all one bright bold color. Put up the hair and lighten the makeup and for God's sake change your shoes. The ankle straps with this dress make her look stumpy.
seriously.. i can't believe you didn't mention how hideous the shoes are!
It's the shoes, it's all the shoes and maybe change the hair and less of the pattern on the back, but i still think she looks fab!
step one: burn shoes. now lets never talk of them again.
step two: hair back. keep the curly-ish look, perhaps in a low messy bun would be good.
step three: find new shoes, WITHOUT ankle strap that makes her legs look shapeless - pretty much any kind of almond/peep toe would work i think. black if you must be matchy matchy.
et voila! le freak, c'est chic.
I think the fact that I literally guffawed (yes- I finally get to use that word in a sentence!) when I scrolled down to the shoes and then immediately ran to post it on two people's FB's peppered with "LOL's" says it all, no?
shoes = no. no pom pom shoes.
I think if there was more of the large blue flower from the back all over the front would look less random. I like the colors and even the bow. I just want to iron it a bit and fluff it up. Definitely a low-key/spumky updo would be much better with this. Ornate necklines should not be worn with hair down.
I'd like the shoes with an extra two inches and a simpler dress. However, I think they could work with this with the added two inches and smaller puff balls that didn't compete with the flower. Maybe I'm weird, I have a thing for puffs and appliques.
More flower!
The shoes need to go. A more simpler shoes could tone down the flower power going on up there.
Hair: up-do
Shoes: NO. NO NO NO.
Dress; fine, actually.
Hair: up-do
Shoes: NO. Just no.
Dress: fine, actually.
"all while delivering its lines with the diction of a 13-year old girl who accidentally drank a glass of scotch"
Weeping, that is so funny. Hate, by the way, the entire outfit. Fussy to no effect.
I think that Leighton Meester is so gorgeous it is hard for her do wrong. But, she does occasionally go in a bad direction. Like when she wore socks with open-toe heels- yes, Leighton, we have not forgotten. This dress on the other hand doesn't bother me so much in conception, but rather execution. The fact that the back pattern's print does not match the front of the dress's in the seam bothers me a lot. What else bothers me are the shoes. Those do not work, period. And then to put them with a dress with so much going on up top...not a good idea. So, I would match the pattern to create an even flow on the dress seam and change the shoes- a closed toe black pump would do just fine. Maybe throw her hair into a bun, but her hair doesn't bother me too much. Her make-up is fab! I wish I looked like Leighton Meester...did you see her on Lifetime in the Halloween Sorority movie? No point, just asking...
I like the dress, the blue is not too much, I think it's a nice touch. The only bad thing is the shoes! FUG! If she'd have worn some simple black pumps instead, it would have been perfection.
oh my fug! what has she done to herself, those are literally the fullest shoes ever it reminds me of something lady gaga would wear circa 1996. The dress is okay but we all know that leighton can do better than this.
The shoes! Those shoes are hideous, and you just inspired me to pop Working Girl into the DVD player. I love that movie, thanks :)
if you put her shoes together they look like mickey mouse
I actually love the gigantic flower, but the blue crap needs to GO. And I would have loved to see this paired with simpler shoes, maybe in a bright blue or something. The hair doesn't bother me, but I think it would've looked great in a chic updo.
I like the fabric. I like the flower. It doesn't fit right at the top, and the bottom hem is poorly made. The big flower on the backside should move to the side, to balance the pattern on the giant flower.
everything else is ok but the shoes...
Move the flower to the right side. Get rid of the shoes. The low back calls for a braided bang across the front and a low elegant bun on the neck.
Those shoes pain me to look at any longer.
Yep. Clean up the hem, and the blue glob, and throw away the shoes to make room for a better pair. Et voila.