You know what's embarrassing?

Going out without remembering to button your top.
You know what's even MORE embarrassing?
Going out without remembering to button your top.
You know what's even MORE embarrassing?
Forgetting to button your shirt in the exact same manner and at THE EXACT SAME EVENT as Chloe Sevigny. (I must add that I secretly love this photo, because the Sev looks like she's starring in a movie in which she's pluckily investigating a murder and is being chased through a library by the dude we're all supposed to think is the murderer, but who is secretly an undercover cop/Chloe's soulmate. Who is only chasing her because he wants to tell her SHE TOTALLY FORGOT TO BUTTON HER SHIRT.)
Look. Let's get real. This outfit is batshit crazy, even if it is Prada (I assume it's Prada -- they're both at a Prada event and I find it hard to believe they would independently decide to wear THIS PARTICULAR ENSEMBLE were it not thematic). This top/bra (tra? Brop?) is the sort of thing most women would look at and say, "you want me to pay HOW MUCH for WHAT? PUT DOWN THE ROCK." But that doesn't mean we can't discuss which of them comes closer to maybe pulling it off. Me? I have to go with C. Sev, if only because her skirt is so cute and I'm really, really REALLY REALLY scared Z. Sald is wearing culottes - or, as well call them here at GFY HQ, "the Devil's Skort."
Vote it up and chat it out, y'all:






Zoe's bra/skirt/tights color family is pretty and pulls the look together and the blouse and skirt have a nice complementary fabric and color connections.
Also, C's skirt looks weird to me -- is the beading and embroidery only on the front? ugh in any case.
Z. Sald's tights make those shoes turn her feet into hooves. She looks like My Little Harem Pony.
Who looks better?
NEITHER.
Holy giant pelvis, that's a lot of lumpy, swollen real estate Zoe's sporting between belt and crotch (not to mention the nasty camel toe). Those pants make that very cute girl look like my Grandmama wearing her "good" polyester on a day she's forgotten to take her diuretic. Not a great advertisement for Prada, all in all.
I want to see that movie!!!
I'm giving Zoe a pass only because her - outfit? ensemble? big mess? - looks like the bra-flash is intentional. Whereas The Sev does, in fact, look like she totally forgot to button her shirt. That skirt does not go with the belly-button halter look.
Could be the expression on her face, though. Even she looks surprised by this one. As do her boobs, though they look more 'in pain' than 'shocked to be on public display.'
Zoe's outfit doesn't come together for me - I have to admit, I'm starting to dig the modest-bra-as-top trend, but Zoe's doesn't look deliberate enough to me. She really does look like she just popped a few buttons...
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C-Sev all the way. Dramatic Up-Boob Lighting™ always wins.
Always.
There are so many things I dislike about Saldana's outfit - thick tights with loose, airy fabric; said thick tights with strap shoes (how is this not in the sandals and socks category of fashion faux pas yet?); the tra; and how cheap the fabric looks, like it's made of shiny outdoor screens or mosquito netting.
I'm going to have to go to Sevigny even if her bra is showing and I can't tell if it's purposeful... because the skirt is beautiful and I love the palette.
Both outfits are fug. However, I have to vote for Zoe. Chloe as a fashion icon, or even moderately attractive, is inexplicable to me. While she looks better than normal here despite the unfortunate outfit, Zoe has her beat by miles.
This bra top thing is really just sort of icky to me, though.
You need to make a "neither" button.
I don't think Zoe's bottom layer is culottes -- I think it's a skirt. Partly because when the picture is enlarged it looks like a slit down at the bottom, and partly because the length of the garment between the waist and the crotch is so long that it might be physically impossible for a human being less than 10 feet tall to have a pelvis that long.
Regardless of how anyone else dresses, by definition, C.Sev is always fugliest.
I just have to think - how could you carry on a conversation with a woman dressed like that? seriously!
The unbuttoned look on both of them evokes the scenario of a teacher who forgot to button up before third period after a quickie in the custodian's closet with the gym coach.
Sev looks more like the teacher who would excuse the wardrobe mishap away by pretending it was part of her lesson plan on Sons and Lovers, so she gets the point.
Zoe's outfit is so lumpy and sheer and is all sorts of try-to-hard. Where as Chloe's outfit looks like Grandma Sev had one too many spiked metamucils before her pottery class. And who can't get down with that?
Cannot ever, ever vote for Chloe as any kind of fashion inspiration/success. Therefore Zoe wins by default. Also, I actually really really love her tights/shoes combo. Chloe actually looks like this was an accident. Her hair has not been washed in 4 days. And SHE decided to show off a bra that actually doesn't fit at all. Smart.
Maybe it's the fad nowadays. I find Chloe's look more sophisticated..errr..did I say that right? Well, for me she looked better than Zoe in terms of the battle of the tra-bropless night
No one's mentioned the fact that neither of their shirts actually have any buttons. How can you pretend to have forgotten to button your shirt if it's not even physically possible?
Despite this fact, I think C. Sev actually pulls it off while Zoe just looks like a mess. And don't get me started on those tights!!!!
they're wearing Miu Miu. and i LOVE IT HATERS TO THE
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although it pains me to say that Chloe looks better. loved the embroidered looks from that collection. and yes, zoe is wearing a skirt.
Great, just what the already-trashy teens need to see as the next trend.
As much as it pains me because Chloe seriously annoys me, I like her outfit better - in the sense of the lesser of two evils. The skirt fits better, the fabrics look more luxe. I do not dig the bra-as-top look, whether it's straight from the runway or not. To quote my beloved Daniel V. (speaking of Runway), "Just because you can doesn't mean you should."
I voted C.Sev. only because there was not, as others have suggested, a Neither button. I did like the murder mystery library scenario, however, I do not want to see someone's BRA, a bra is not a top just as leggings or bare legs are not PANTS! And it's a little insulting for people to walk around like, "What? WHAT? This is a top..." when, clearly, they secretly know it is not and the voting majority know it is not. Who at Prada is snickering this morning seeing that these two fools fell for it. Who wants to humiliate women through fashion? So many questions.
They both look insane, but Z looks more like a clued-out bohemian artsy-type circa 1921 so it kinda works more for me, even with the awful tights (very DH Lawrence-ish). Chloe's skirt looks like something the Queen Mother would have worn to cut a ribbon somewhere, so the fabric posing as a shirt and the bra are just that much more...incongruous?
How can you have a conversation with someone dressed like that? It's the same thing as spinach-in-the-teeth syndrome; you don't WANT to look, but your eyes keep darting. My mother would throw a fit. I vote neither.
I voted for C. Sev., too...mainly because, as so many of said here already, there is no "neither" selection. I, also, voted for her because she fills it out better and thus makes it work a little more (if that is even possible in such a heinous get-up). I mean, it's a craptastic outfit, but at least her cleavage is kind of mesmerizing, you've got to admit.
WHO LOOKS BETTER??? I'm going to pretend you didn't just ask me that. Both look stupid.
I refuse to condone this behavior. Is this what we've come to, world? Deciding who looks better in a completely unbuttoned, tucked-in top? Tucked into HIGH-WAISTED bottoms, no less?
Am I the only one that noticed C. Sev's bra is popping out of ther "bra"? But no matter what, she's always fabulous.
I really feel like I need to see La Sev's shoes before I vote.
I feel like possession by the Devil through The Devil's Skort is the only excuse for such madness.
And on that note: MOVIE PITCH TIME!
The Devil's Skort: an item of clothing imbued with the Spirit of the Devil by ADubs when she is finally and unceremoniously sacked from Vogue for accidentally smiling.
These culottes wreak havoc on the world by bringing misery and blindness through Really Bad Fashion. You may think you're putting them on as a joke - but IT'S NOT FUNNY! And if, by God, you're wearing them Seriously And Without Irony... well, your punishment is nonnegotiable - you can never be photographed again. (And if you are, and you see the photo, you die of misery.)
I mean, I'd see it for its campitude. It could star Rachel Bilson as the cute and perky reporter who tries to piece together why so many models and designers and famous people are disappearing suddenly and without warning...
There's no "neither" button because this is like Death is Not an Option: YOU MUST CHOOSE.
It's hard to button a shirt when there are no buttons....
I had to go for the Sev for sole reason of Z.S.'s tights. I am a fan of tights, but not those particular tights with the light material of the clothing.
That said, the colors (excepting the bra, which I am studiously ignoring) on ZS are beautiful. That shade of blue is a personal fave. Really like CS's skirt, but not the shade of the top- or maybe extra wide suspenders would be more accurate.
This is an unfair competition because we can't see The Sev's shoes. I can pretty much stomach Zoe's outfit if I don't look above her ankles and I pretend she has maroon skin. Then it's okay. The Sev's purse is cute, so I guess I'll only look at her left wrist.
Ahhh....now I can stop hyperventilating and make some kind of judgment on the poll.
p.s. I'd totally go see a movie called The Devil's Skort starring The Sev in that murder mystery library scenario. In the theater, too, not just on DVD.
I'll be blunt: if you're going to make your boobs the absolute screaming center of attention in an outfit, you need to have the rack to pull it off. Chloe does. Zoe does not.
In response to Aaron on November 16, 2009 8:59 AM:
"Haters" is a word people use when they're trying to assert that everybody who disagrees with them is wrong simply because they disagree. You don't have to be a hater to dislike the tacky, trampy "woops! my shirt fell open!" look.
Like Stefanie, I'm baffled by Sev's actual bra peeking out of the bra top thing. This whole look is ridiculous on both of them.
Brop. It's definitely 'brop'...and now I'm going to have to find a way to work that into a conversation...
Zoe but only because her bra fits better. Chloe's bra? Does not fit. And people, there is no reason to have an ill-fitting bra. Especially if you have money, stylists, and a bra size that doe snot involve multiple Ds or a letter further along in the alphabet than, say, F.
I have to say I chose Zoe because her bra looks more comfy. Chloe's looks scratchy and too tight. Plus, Zoe has kind of a harem pajamas look going on. I love pajamas.
To me, Chloe wins here, only because I can't get past that Zoe's bra totally looks photshopped, which it's obviously not, since I'm sure this would be an entirely different conversation if it were. Meaning, it's a totally weird color and I don't like it.
Someone's gonna be running to Jackie Chiles because they crashed their car ogling these two. Reminder: A BRA IS NOT A TOP. Even if you are an actress or the heiress to the Baby Ruth candy bar fortune.
Zoe's looks too much accidentally on purpose. Oh isn't this so fashion forward? She doesn't know what she's doing.
The Sev is wearing it, she knows she's nuts and is rocking those nuts. Love the skirt. Covet.
I too am really excited about watching C.Sev's murder mystery. I love that kind of movie!
Love Chloe's skirt. Winner.
Chloe vs. Zoe, hmm? This reminds me of the names I had picked out for my future twin girls back in little girl lalaland of the early 90s. Thank God tastes change. However, it seems as though these women are stuck in that midriff baring time and one has hammer pants to boot. I have to go with Chloe, this is almost a yawn for her usual garb and only she can wear this without anyone batting an eye.
We need a NEITHER category!!
Let's be honest they both look ridiculous, but I give the Sev the win because at least she looks like this was intentional. Zoe seriously looks like she did forget to button her shirt on an already terrible outfit. Chloe looks like she's wearing something insane but somehow also high fashion, which is sort of her thing anyways. She looks like she could stand to go up half a cup size though.
I won't vote because they both look like idiots. Zoe looks completely disheveled: hair, clothes, everything! Chloe's skirt is gorgeous, but that is the only positive thing I have to say about these outfits.
I think it looks like Chloe is wearing a beige bra under her brop and it is peeking out. It's like taking the non-top and making it JUST a little trashier by showing her real underwear, too.
This really isn't bad for C. Sev. She's definitely done a lot worse. So simply because it's an improvement, I give her props. Let's hope this upswing continues.
I voted for Chloe because her bra at least is a little decorated. Zoe's looks like a t-shirt bra, which should never be exposed.
But like several other folks have pointed out, this is a little like having to vote which eyeball I want gouged out.
z sald looks awful.. the colours and the texture all of it, just doesnt work.
c sev isnt that bad.. the poking bra is a bit of a no no (although i feel like she could get away with murder, shes done worse) but hers matches and theyre not made out of horrible fabric, they are actually nice.
Ech, Sev just looks like she was making out with someone behind the bushes a few minutes ago, and is too drunk to remember to re-button her blouse.
I'm just... so...confused.
I'm abstaining from this vote.
Actually, what I like most about this whole thing are the expressions on the face of the people behind Zoe.
Woman with great black-with-beige-pattern coat: "Oh, that poor love, perhaps I should sneak up and let her know about her shirt before she poses for any more photos."
White tie man: "Aha! I've got it - if I look slightly to the side here, there's no way my wife can accuse me of ogling that bra top lady from behind."
I love Zoe's shoes so much that I am giving them both a pass on the stupid and unflattering outfits.
Zoe is wearing organza pants. Organza.
C. Sev at least just looks like herself.
All I had to do was look at the picture of Zoe and the line "You know what's embarrassing" and I lost it laughing...love you ladies...
But anyways, Zoe outfugs the Sev just for those matching maroon(?) tights. At lease the Sev is rocking some cleav.
I like how Sev left a bit of lace bra showing from under her *main* bra, as if to say, "Oh, this? This isn't my bra. THIS is my bra."
I like how Sev left a bit of lace bra showing from under her *main* bra, as if to say, "Oh, this? This isn't my bra. THIS is my bra."
This reminds me of all those romance novel covers where the hero has managed to carefully tuck in his shirt (to his pants, which come up to about his third rib), but neglected to button it.
Ladies! Fabio may be many things-- artificial butter pitchman, camp icon, killer of geese with his face-- but he should not be your fashion inspiration.
It is entirely possible that I have lost my mind, but I actually think Chloe looks sort of fabulous here. Maybe I just love the photograph and would in fact be appalled to run into her in the real world dressed this way, but--well, that's pretty bloody unlikely, isn't it?
The only things I like about either outfit are Zoe's tights and shoes.
I'm only commenting because I like Chloe's skirt. It would look great in an Anthropologie catalog with layers of patterned, lacy sweaters on a model who is looking wistfully into the horizon while straddling a saw horse surrounded by ducks.
I like that catalog.
Oh yeah, why don't people wear shirts anymore?
Zoe Saldana's bottoms are not culottes but a skirt with a middle slit. If you look at other pictures from a different angle, it is obvious that it is a skirt
Chloe Sevigny always looks like Carrie Bradshaw: the Early Years. I mean, the Carrie that we all knew and loved before she made money from her books and when she used to wear wacko things that no REAL person would think to own even for laundry day, let alone going out in. Carrie always pulled them off even though she sometimes looked like a boho-hooker. And we love her and admired her and secretly wanted to dress like her. That is largely how I feel about C.Sev. She's so pretty and I would be her in a second, even if it meant exposing myself at a Prada event (because, who cares? I'd be at a freaking Prada event!).
Chloe Sevigny always looks like Carrie Bradshaw: the Early Years. I mean, the Carrie that we all knew and loved before she made money from her books and when she used to wear wacko things that no REAL person would think to own even for laundry day, let alone going out in. Carrie always pulled them off even though she sometimes looked like a boho-hooker. And we love her and admired her and secretly wanted to dress like her. That is largely how I feel about C.Sev. She's so pretty and I would be her in a second, even if it meant exposing myself at a Prada event (because, who cares? I'd be at a freaking Prada event!).
er... pale burgundy satin high waisted culottes.....NO.
I RESENT being forced into a situation where I have to say the Sev is better-dressed than someone.
I saw a hint of lace around C.Sev's boob - does that mean she's doing better than Zoe because she's wearing something to ensure against the nip slip, or worse, because she isn't as invested in the look of exposed bra-hood?
And actually, I think Zoe looks more like she's wearing a bikini bra instead of a bra top, and while the colors are bright and happy, the material for some reason looks cheap to me - sort of like the Exposed Underwear Bargain Basement. Which sounds like a sex club. Anyway.
I'd like to see what the Sev's wearing on her feet, but unless it's something horrible - like Uggs - she wins it for me.
ALL TOO WEIRD
zoe looks like a poor man's chloe. nuff said.
There needs to be "I would rather stab myself in the eye before voting for the Sev, but dammit, at least she's not wearing culottes" option.
Zoe's top half looks better - I like her shirt a lot, and her bra looks normal. Her bottom half is a complete fug-tacle, though. 'Nuff said.
I like Chloe's skirt, and all of her outfit pieces actually look like an ensemble, so good job there. However. That is one ugly grandma bra, and it doesn't fit right. And I think it's just the lighting and the fact that the bra doesn't fit, but it's making her boobs look generally strange, too. So much so that I actually voted for Zoe, because as much as I think the ensemble is fug, the real issue here for me is the bra area, and hers was causing less of a scene.
Okay, here's the thing...there are no buttons on sev's shirt. So it doesn't look like she forgot to button it. It looks like she started to make a shirt in home ec and did not have enough time to finish it and wore it anyway with a cute bra. And, is that ANOTHER shirt I see on her arm? Or a shawl? I imagine her belly is pretty cold right now. Right now the extra shirt/shawl (shrawl?) seems superfluous. As does this whole ensemble. Neither c.sev or zaldana have given me enough information to work with.
I....actually....have to give this one to....Chloe. Eventhough this pains me to type. Saldana is wearing high-waisted short pants with MATCHING TIGHTS and shoes that are so not meant for this outfit. None of the colors really come together for her and whole outfit is just weird and oddly out of season given that it's NOVEMBER and we're not at a beach event.
Oh my gosh. Despite reading your blog regularly, both to myself and to my decidedly underwhelmed boyfriend, I have never commented.
BUT I have to say that I am so glad that you made that comment about the picture looking like a murder/thriller movie. Because when I saw it, I definitely thought it was from CSI or something. And I know Chloe is probably not on CSI and you're offended right now. But I don't have a TV and am ignorant about these things.
I can't vote. I just can't. I do like Chloe's skirt, though.
This pains me. I love both these girls for soft headed reasons I can't quite articulate.
BUT!!! Does neither one have someone who loves her enough to say, "What are you doing going outside looking like that?"
At the risk of sounding like my own mom - for heaven's sake!
The Sev wins this one. I love that skirt and she looks strangely natural with the exposed bra top. I made a face when I saw Zoe's high waisted skirt. Her open shirt reminds me of one of those old bra ads. Nichelle Nichols wouldn't go outside looking like this.
Here's the other kicker to the Sev's ensemble. She's currently pregnant so those "accessories" she's flaunting? Temporary. *Shrug* It's C.Sev - enjoy em while they're there
I voted for Z.Sald, if only because I cannot, in good conscience, EVER vote for Fugoë Fugigny as being better dressed than anyone.
Plus, I STILL haven't forgiven her for the horror of her Opening Fugemony line.
That said...not gonna lie, but I like her top. The patterned skirt = no, though. I think Zoe's skirt was better, though I disagree with most commenters on the leggings. (I also don't think that it's a culotte skirt - it's just the angle.)
I have to say Chloe's looking better this time...Zoe's tight = much too much
Zoe's is messier and... just looks sewn badly. Like, that satin looks like someone in a Grade 8 Home Ec class had a hand in it. Not cool... since it gives such a stick-thin waif of a woman almost a pot-belly look. And not in an, "Oh good, she's finally eaten something," kind of way. In an "Oh god she's terribly misshapen what has HAPPENED???" kind of way.
Ugh. I voted for Chloe, but they are both FUG.
Put it away, pretty ladies, put it away,
Put it away, pretty ladies, put it away,
Please button up your top,
Be it "tra" or be it "brop,"
Put it away, pretty ladies, put it away!
Am I the only one who thinks that Chloe looks sort of awesome...? It's a look I would never do myself and a look I hope to never see again, but girl is working it. She tends to do that, Chloe.
Both outfits are a triumph of fug - they manage to look simultaneously dowdy and trashy. Unpleasant colours in both, though some credit to C for the vaguely moody palette. Terrible fit of bra for CS and skirt for Z.
Chloe's boobs look better.
Chloe looks better from the waist up, but that skirt needs to be burnt at the stake!
Both looks are fugtastic, but I at least like the vibrant colors of Zoe's look.
It is Miu Miu, but yes it is just crazy! But I give Chloe the edge because with an actually shirt on, she would look good. Zoe just looks bad all around. Rasberry tights that exactly match your sheer skirt are just wrong. She also went a little overboard on the flat iron. That and I can totally see Chloe wearing this in a film noir!
Zoe looks like a mermaid on her way to a job interview, ew. And Chloe looks like she had a 1950s couch throw fashioned into a skirt. I'm not too crazy about the tops but i'm not dissing them either. The bottoms are where these fashionistas are really ruining the trend. Chloe is bat shit crazy when it comes to style normally but Zoe, i'm surprised at. Risky, veryyy risky.
When did it become ok to expose so very much of one's flesh in public??? The "trend" is disturbing to say the least.
Zoe's outfit is just plain horrible... Mismatched, terrible colors, textures, and shapes combine only to highlight what appears to be one of the ugliest, commonest bras of all time. What on earth could she have been thinking? And I won't even start on those tights and shoes. She looks like she's dressing up as a "hot" witch or something. Weird.
Chloe's picture is hilarious and great and I want to see that movie. Plus, her "shirt" is actually a vest, so her nonsense seems more strategic and well-executed. In addition, her shoes rock (see them here: http://www.fabsugar.com/6260961), she did manage to put together a good color scheme, and she's at least pretending her bra is a top by wearing a bra underneath it.
Chloe for the win, but I've lost a piece of my soul...
I love Zoe's outfit, However I vote for her because she is so talented. The poll must says "Who is more talented ?" instead of what are they showing.....
SALDANA looks like she is reliving her not-so-far-gone Start Trek glory days.
I can't believe you made me vote for the Sev for anything that proclaims her the winner. Not a word I would usually use to describe her trainwreckedness but alas, all things are relative.
they are both wearing mui mui btw.
Somehow this reminds me of the scene in "Mean Girls" where Lohan & co cut the nipples off Rachel McAdams top and she wears it anyway.
I just can't get over the uni-tint tights. Blech.
Chloe never wins. We need an "Are you frakking kidding me?" button.
So we're just wearing vests over bras tucked into skirts now and pretending that they're shirts? Cause even if it weren't almost winter here in New England I just couldn't get behind that crap.
LURVE Chloe's skirt.