Fug or Fab

October 22, 2009

Fug or Fab: Rachel Bilson

This is the part where I talk about how cute Rachel Bilson is, and it's true. She IS really cute.

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Oh, Rachel. I remember when you were on The O.C, and The O.C was good, and we were all so happy and young. Now I'm old, and you don't have a job. Which, by the way, is crazy: you're charming. You seriously should have a TV gig.   In this outfit, actually, you look like you're on your way to the set of a TV version of Reality Bites -- because the 90s are ripe for a period piece nighttime soap -- in which you play, obviously, the Winona Ryder character. It's debatable whether or not I would still RELATE to the Winona Ryder character, as the last time I caught that movie on cable, I wanted to shake her and explain that dating the super hot slacker SEEMS like a good idea when you're 22, but it's actually NOT because that dude will flake on you for the remainder of your relationship and eventually maybe start hitting on your best friend. In fact, I just realized that I think the Ethan Hawke character in Reality Bites is essentially Justin-Bobby. DON'T DATE JUSTIN-BOBBY. It ends in tears.

Also debatable: the relative success of this 90s-inspired little get-up. I kinda like it, but it might just be nostalgia for the time when I didn't have gray hair. (I'm lying, you know. I had gray hair at 18. I've ALWAYS had gray hair.)

October 22, 2009

Fug or Fab: Blake Lively

We've been a bit hard on Blake Lively for the flesh parade she likes to throw for herself every time she goes outside. It's not that we don't understand the temptation to show off what you've got; we just tend to believe it's okay to, say, skip the all-you-can-eat buffet in favor of a tasty sit-down dinner that's filling, yes, but also leaves you wanting to come back for more.

Ergo, I think this is sort of cute.

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There's a HINT of cleavage, and plenty of leg. I'm sure if she turns around we'll find out there's no back and that her rump equator is showing, or something, but for now let's assume that's not true. There IS something sort of 1994 Amanda Woodward Goes To Work about this -- minus the mules, thankfully -- but I would also like to point out that Amanda Woodward was, is, and shall always be a total badass. I mean, what if Blake was doing the whole Alison Gets An Ill-Conceived Bob And Turns Into A Boozy Bitch Who Also Wears Mules thing? Or the Jane Mancini Bowl Cut of 1993? As Melrose Place influences go, this is really not so bad.

October 21, 2009

Fug or Fab: Paula Patton

Too much? Not enough? Just right? Trying to decide if she was ready to leave the house in this must have been a Three Bearsian Nightmare for Pretty Pretty Paula Patton. I suspect this thing is made of just raw fabric, whipped into shape by a particularly ingenious stylist, but no one asked me. No one EVER asks me.

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Paula Patton: pretty.
This dress: questionable.


October 20, 2009

Fug or Fab: Taylor Momsen

Okay, let's take everything we know about T. Mom and set it aside: the years of cranky expressions (including this one), KISS-inspired face paint, and general surly mien. Cleanse your Momsen palate. Pretend you've never seen this girl before. You have fashion amnesia:

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What do you think? "Wow, that cranky-looking girl in the flesh-colored number is pulling that whole look off in a way I would not have anticipated, if I knew anything about her, which I don't. Where am I again?" or "I find those fishnets a brave and intriguing choice. This irritated looking woman reminds me of a vaguely sexy zombie! I love it! What's my name?" or "What a bowl of surprisingly delicious oatmeal! Once this woman -- whomever she may be -- cuts loose those flammable extensions, she'll look positively fashion-forward! Who are you again?" or "Ew, AGAIN, person on CW? WHY?"

October 19, 2009

UnFug or Fab: Jaime King

I can't quite figure out what's going on with Jaime King here:

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Seriously. Could you please help me with this? Is this good? Is it bad? Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it so wrong it's right? Is it so right it's righteous? But, more important, WHAT IS IT? Personally, I think that if her hair were less distracting, I might love the dress...and if the dress wasn't as busy, I might appreciate the hair. Did I pick the wrong week to stop smoking crack?

October 19, 2009

Fug or Fab: Isabel Lucas

Don't even get me started about Transformers 2. It was so terrible. NOTHING about it was good. Literally, everything down to the Egyptian geography was wrong. If you were lucky enough to miss it, Isabel Lucas here played a sexually voracious college student who provided tons of upskirt shots of her panties and who was secretly actually a man-eating robot with a tail and a twenty foot tongue, like, SUBTLE AND LAYERED AS USUAL, MICHAEL BAY. Honestly, the whole thing made me want to re-enroll in college just so I could write an enraged critical paper about how insulting the entire thing was: to women, to men, to minorities, to the government, to the military, to college students, to parents, to cars, to small appliances, to the audience. On the other hand, the movie did allow for Roger Ebert to write this review, which begins, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a horrible experience of unbearable length." I love you, Roger.  Anyway, Ms Lucas is a pretty girl:

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The dress, I think, is cute -- I have one sort of similar to it, so I'm biased, although mine isn't shiny and looks somewhat less like fancy French doors. But I am worried about whoever has taken over Ms Lucas's hair and makeup duties. Check it:
October 16, 2009

Fug or Fab: Nelly Furtado

Let's talk about Nelly Furtado.

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First of all, am I the only person who thinks Nelly looks like Courteney Cox? Not exactly, but as though they could be related -- like Nelly is Courteney's cousin, or something. Angle for a gig on Cougar Town, Nelly. I hear it's funny.  Second, this outfit: I feel like it's SO CLOSE to being awesome, and yet something about it has pushed it off the Awesome Highway and into the gutters of Almostville. I fear I must lay the blame at her hose and shoes. They're sort of dragging your eye down, like an anchor. And the last thing you want your legs compared to is an anchor, am I right?

October 16, 2009

Fug or Fab: Halle Berry

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"So I hear y'all bitches at the tabloids think I've been looking pregnant. Well GET A LOAD OF THIS. It's tight and it's low-cut and I'm wearing the shit out of it, and later I'll be sporting it at my audition for the obligatory Sexy Cylon Whose Dress Is Close To Falling Off Her Breasts role in Battlestar Galactica II: Galactose Intolerant. The only bumps you'll see are the ones spilling out of the top. GOT IT? GREAT."

Obviously, if you're doing something spiffy with the Museum of Arts and Design, you're going to be tempted to wear something very unusual -- something artsy, perhaps, and full of design. I just can't decide what to make of Rose's effort here:

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My brain keeps whipsawing between the good and the odd. Tiny waist! Clunky shoes. Interesting neck! Terrible hair. And the skirt gives me pause: On one hand, it makes her look like a martini glass, all boring stem and then an explosion of fun up top. But on the other, what the hell DO you wear with that top? It's like when you try something on at the store and you love it but you don't have a thing that goes with it in your wardrobe, and so you think, "Well, I'll buy the top first and then I'll FIND SOMETHING to wear it with," and then you never do, and suddenly you've never worn it and you really want to and so you just throw any old thing with it and hope for the best.

Now, possibly, that's just sewn to LOOK like it's separates, but I just wonder if it's a waste of an architecturally interesting upper half not to make it a full ball gown, or have it flow into a tight pencil-cut dress. I am gripped with indecision on this fine Friday, and I don't like to end my week under such terrible stress. Indecision is for Wednesdays, people. Because then you get over it and you cake walk through the rest of the week. So help me out here, in sort of a hybrid Fug or Fab and Unfug piece -- talk up its relative merits and demerits in the comments, and let us all know what you'd do if you got to play stylist. Stay on topic, stay friendly, stay on target, stay with me, stay for a while, stay sweet and see you next summer, etc.

October 15, 2009

Fug or Fab: Sienna Miller

Okay, I need you guys to sit down. Okay, actually, I assume that you're reading this sitting down, so I want you to stand up, and then sit down again. What I'm about to say is very shocking. Sienna Miller's posture is terrible, and she would, I think, look much better if this were NOT a jumpsuit but rather a dress. HOWEVER: She does not look so terrible in it that I want to barf all over my keyboard and then run outside, screaming until I lose consciousness from lack of oxygen. If she were not standing as though it were too short on her torso -- which I think is just a trick of the photo -- she might look....okay. Maybe? I mean, you know, considering.

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I realize that saying this is sort of the equivalent of saying, "that time I got robbed was WAY better than that time I got murdered," but go with me. Let's talk this out, guys. Let's have that tough jumpsuit conversation. The longer I've sat here with this, the more I've hated it, but I realize that some of you don't feel as strongly. In fact, I believe it's possible that one of you reading this might actually be WEARING a jumpsuit.  RIGHT NOW. So let's have the talk, guys.


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