This may not be true, but it FEELS like every time I write about Christina Hendricks, I make it a Fug or Fab piece. Although, I just peeked back at our archives, and that’s totally not the case at all. I suspect my mistaken memories suggest that I WANT to see the silver lining in her outfits but in the end the darker recesses of my soul win out and I abandon optimism for aaaaarghtimism (translation: the tendency to beat one’s head against the wall and then douse the bruise in rum while eating a lime with one eye closed, and asking a parrot how it feels).
So you tell me: Is this cute? Because I love her face, and I like the little black dress angle; I’m just not sure if being choked by a fabric swatch from Madonna’s abandoned 1989 Glove Of Love handwear collection is the best move. What’s to be done, Fug Nation? Denude her arms and chest of the lace, but keep the bottom? Keep the underlying LBD and just accessorize the hell out of it? Touch nothing but your own cheeks as you wipe tears of joy from your loving eyes? Go back to the beginning, like Inigo in The Princess Bride, but without getting so drunk that you wake up to a giant dousing your head in a bucket of cold water? Make more random, barely applicable movie references? Who do you favor in the Virginia Slims tournament? WHAT?
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Remove the lace from the top and arms, and maybe add a good necklace or bracelet – not both. Also, maybe some younger shoes.
The neck looks like Victorian mourning garb. Take the lace away from the neck area and just leave it at lace sleeves and it would be ok as a dress, but a little severe for summer I think.
I think I’d go with substantially lowering the neckline – maybe to a deep V or a sweetheart. I’m okay with the sleeves, actually.
Really, any OTHER neckline would look better. And I’d like a better look at the shoes, but from here they seem a little frump.
Remove the lace overlay from the boobs up, but leaving the sleeves. I don’t know how that can be done, sartorially speaking, but just do it.
I don’t like the dress (mainly because the lace goes so high up her neck), but she looks so much nicer than usual I’m willing to give it a pass. Plus look how beautiful her face is! That’s some great hair and makeup.
I wish the costume designer from Mad Men would help her out for these events and just dress her as Joan-on-the-town. Joan-on-the-town always looks fantastic and modern!
Lower the neckline, please! I actually don’t mind the lace on the arms, but the neckline — it makes me think of Morticia. Only Morticia wouldn’t have a problem with cleavage.
On the other hand, the LBD itself is great, and the hair and makeup is amazing.
This dress is unworthy of her…she’s not utilizing her best features. It’s too short for her legs to look their best, and the neckline makes her a floating head. This dress adds weight rather than streamlines, which is the whole point of BLACK.
This dress is unworthy of her…she’s not utilizing her best features. It’s too short for her legs to look their best, and the neckline makes her a floating head. This dress adds weight rather than streamlines, which is the whole point of BLACK.
I think I’m the only one that likes the lace and high neckline. It frames her face beautifully (See Jezebel’s Good/bad/ugly post for a great thumbnail).
I would stop the lace at her waist, and make the skirt a pencil skirt to the knees to emphasize her curves.
Plus those shoes are horrid. I think a harder edged, high-heel shoe.
And now I think I just aped a Dolce & Gabbana design as worn by Madonna posing as a Sicilian widow.
The shoes, the collar, and the lace. Then, add some length to the hem.
I just want to shoot any designer who employs black lace, whether the result is transparency and nakedness or not.
I actually quite like this. The higher neck doesnt bother me : maybe it’s a little severe for summer as somebody said before, but it’s different than the cleavage every little actress is giving us right now. Plus I love myself some high neck, it’s sophisticated and chic. The lenght of the sleeves is perfect. However, I somehow would have like her to go for different shoes, maybe a sandal to make it a little bit more summery?
No Heather, it is not cute. The only cute things going on are her striking face and her poise.
“Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by acid, or something like that?”
“Oh no. It’s just they’re terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.”
I’d add more fabric: longer lace sleeves, longer lace skirt to just below the knee, flashier shoes, flashier rings (to counter the Morticia-ness of the dress). I like the severe lace up to her chin.
OK, so I posted on Elisabeth Moss about how great Christina looked, then I see this pic. I swear from another angle she looked great! But then again, I was staring at her face, because I have a girl-crush on her and her makeup looked fab (from that other angle. I don’t know what’s going on here). That said, remove the lace, change the shoes and … is she wearing black pantyhose? Man, I hope not.
Agreed that the neckline is all that needs to change for this to be fab.
Maybe I’m crazy, but it seems like she’s lost some weight lately, and it’s making her look kind of wan in the face. Or maybe she’s just doing something different with the makeup. Best to eat a sandwich just to be safe, I say.
I want to like this lady so badly (such a pretty face and figure!), but I can’t. While the popularity of her lovely figure is supposed to be a call to arms that real women have curves, the fact that she is so consistently TERRIBLY dressed completely undermines that idea (and reveals that she personally has awful taste).
I think with this outfit she was trying to make her look about anything but her boobs – unfortunately, she doesn’t know how to properly emphasize any other aspect of her physique.
Please (i) lengthen the skirt to just below the knee and keep it pegged; (ii) make the neckline bateau and keep the sleeves (maybe substitute a slightly less cheap looking lace); and (iii) burn the shoes; try a sandal.
What is happening to her face? Every time I see a photo of her lately she seems more and more frozen? Are these just bad candids or is it a case of bad botox?
I like it too. This has the potential to be very ’60s Sophia Loren. I just think the styling is too sloppy for a covered-up black lace look. If you’re going to wear black lace, you have to err on the side of severe, or else you look ’80s, or bordello-y, or Morticia-esque, or some inadvisable blend of the three.
So. I think it the skirt actually needs to be a skosh longer to flatter her legs, and she needs to steal some fierce shoes from Victoria Beckham’s closet — some kind of fabulously uncomfortable peep-toe or YSL Tribute-style greatness, to play up the retro silhouette of the dress in a sexy way, rather than in a granny crochet way. I would also go with tidier hair, a slightly less black eye and a slightly more defined lip.
I guess my changes run the risk of looking more literally Mad Men than la Hendricks may prefer to look, but she’d look better than she does now. All in all, though, this is far from the worst she’s ever done.
Ditch all the lace entirely, change the shoes to something less frilly, lower the skirt just a weensy bit, and… is that a necklace I’m smelling? Possibly one of those. Or maybe a flashy bracelet, if she wants to draw attention from her money-makers. Actually I take that back. She has a giant ring on. Necklace it is.
No sleeves. Neckline good. Shoes AWFUL.
Lighting terrible.
Add a pair of killer high heels and a better up-do to show of the lace neck, which incidentally I do like a lot.
I would remove the lace all together, but I think the cut of the lace part is the real crime. It’s creating an effect I like to call “The Wall,” which is the reason I don’t have any turtlenecks. For us voluptuous or broad-shouldered ladies, I think a nice v-neck is probably the way to go.
Well-endowed shorter women never look good in turtlenecks. It makes them look short and square. Christina here is Exhibit A. The dress is cute and would look much better with a nice V neck.
it’s ALMOST like she listened to Tom and Lorenzo in their analysis of her season 1 Mad Men Wardrobe. http://tomandlorenzo2.blogspot.com/2010/06/mad-style-joan-holloway-s1-part-2.html
She needs better shoes. Of that, I am 100% certain.
As for the lace, I want so badly to like it, but it comes across as looking messy here for some reason. I’ would make the dress strapless, and have a hint of lace at the neckline (a bit less than the skirt) and lose the turtleneck and sleeves.
Just don’t forget the heels!
Get that lace off the bottom and lengthen the dress to right below the knee. Get rid of the high neck, all the lace and give the LBD a sweetheart neckline with wider straps that just sit slightly off shoulder. Hair and makeup are ok, but really, she looks better as Joan.
Make it winter and the dress works.
I think the length is fine, the camera angle is not doing her legs favours, but I don’t think it’s the dress’s fault. One might also blame the black background.
What Granny said.
File black lace under “O” for Overdone.
She has a lovely curvy body, but this dress is doing her no favors. I think that women with a voluptuous form can easily veer from sexy to “Come up and see me some time” with just a tiny misstep. Granted, I don’t know precisely how to save this garment… Maybe lengthen the skirt? Or leave the top part as is, but make it a blouse and change the bottom to a solid black, knee-length pencil skirt? Or perhaps a different neckline on the chemise? As it is, it reminds me of a full-support Cross Your Heart bra.
Like the lace, like the neckline, love the Italian vibe, just wish it was longer. With her curves mini is just not an option. And the shoes are very matchy matchy…
For a proper fix up, end the dress just below the knee and show off the (awesome) boobs. I don’t mind the sleeves actually. Shoes, simple but sky-high black stilletos.
And yes, I am with everybody here, just echo Sofia Loren. The woman is 80 and it still works for her!
Some many folks have wanted the neckline changed that I feel the opposite side must be heard. If the neckline lowers, then we have what we have seen many times, pictures of her with her twin accessories featured. The neckline here is refreshing. Maybe instead of turtle, just stop at the base of her neck. Remove the long sleeves and go with a looser cap lace sleeve. Do not like the unequal lengths so make the dress end, at once, together. Don’t like the shoes either but lots of folks have commented on that.
I want the whole underpinning thing to come down like three inches
I’m glad I’m not the only one commenting on her face- I don’t think it looks like her! What’s going on there. I agree that this dress is not emphasizing her best features, but maybe she’s tired of having her breasts be the main feature? I think this dress would look better if the sleeves were removed and if the lace only went up to her collar bone instead of up to her neck. That way she would still have some coverage, without it looking so severe.
She’s a floating head! Get rid of neck and shoulder lace. And step up the shoes. Everything else is negotiable.
I quite like the dress, though I’m in favor of the bateau neckline suggested above. Her face and hair look fantastic, but those shoes are an abomination.
keep the lace, make the neckline a boatneck, and swap the shoes for a nude pump. The choking collar makes her face skew a touch too Carol Channing for my comfort zone.
She needs to pull the Jamie Lee Curtis move from True Lies and rip off all of the lace and then slick back her hair with some water from a flower vase
sorry, but… why wear that kind of neckline when you have that cleavage?
She looks like a cross between Barbara Stanwyck (circa: The Big Valley) and Ann Margret…It looks like a saloon wench’s frock, albeit sawed-off. She IS lovely and/but with a curvaceous figure like, you have to dress a bit more carefully. The stark contrast between the black of the dress and the dimpled white of the legs doesn’t work. I love her face, though, and her make-up is just right.
I would just change the shoes.
Oh fug girls, a Clue reference and now a Princess Bride reference??!!! Happy day!
There are too many lace elements. Lace on the sleeves, the collar, the hem and the shoes is overwhelming. Remove any two from the list and the outfit is lovely.
I wore a bridesmaid dress many years ago that had the exact same lace neck/sleeves — I’d remove them from this dress! and — the dress is a wee bit too short … she looks better when the dress hits the knees, methinks. And then I think the shoes would look okay.
I wore a bridesmaid dress many years ago that had the exact same lace neck/sleeves — I’d remove them from this dress! and — the dress is a wee bit too short … she looks better when the dress hits the knees, methinks. And then I think the shoes would look okay.
What’s up with the shoes? I’m assuming she has no stylist…BUT this is better than she usually looks which is a shame because she is a beautiful woman. Change the shoes and different neckline would do wonders.
Get rid of the lace on the chest and arms
Make it knee length
Get rid of those shoes
Add a gold cuff
Hair down? Or maybe a neater do?
The makeup is pretty, but it doesn’t look right with the messy hair. Too dramatic
the shoes, the shoes, the shoes…had she gone with something different, the outfit would be fine.
Scrap everything — go for a jewel toned strapless sheath, to the knee, in a matte fabric. Make sure the basooms fit properly (this is the only good thing I can say about this outfit is that unlike most of her outfit it seems to fit her well in the chest). Accessorize accordingly.
What is with all the matchy-matchy shoes lately?? Really, she HAD to wear the black shoes with the lace edging WITH her black lace dress? REALLY?
“Inconceivable!”
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
I think I’m echoing a few people here but oh well
Starting from the top:
I like the neckline, it works for me, but I really like the idea of cap sleeves instead. Ditch the lace on the bottom half and lengthen it a touch, a nice black pencil skirt would be lovely. While we’re at it how about a wide black belt? But really, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WOMAN, change the damn shoes!
I love her with all my heart, and I’m glad she’s moved to a Joan Harris figure-hugging silhouette, but girlfriend still needs to look up “ungapachkit” and fear it.
I just wanted to point out that (at the time I am making this comment) the last option in the above poll is winning, which I think only underscores the aweseomness of Fug Nation.
And, of course, the fact that a Princess Bride reference is on this site at all makes Fug Girls SUPER EXTRA awesome.
I’m not sure I can handle this magnitude of awesomeness!
I actually like the LBD with lace although unless she’s in the southern hemisphere it seems rather wintry for July, n’est-ce pas?
Are you lonesome tonight?
Is your kitchen a fright?
Is your wardrobe all run down and bare?
Is your lipstick all smeared?
Are your stockings not sheer?
Do they make your legs show all your hair?
Do the tears on your pillow roll down as you turn?
Do they short out your blanket
And make the sheets burn?
Is your heart filled with pain?
Will you come back again?
Shop at Macys and love me tonight.
It may be that her teeth are clenched in a fake smile because she can’t breathe. That high collar is the problem.
The whole thing has to go. Please, Christina, try a colour. Remember that gorgeous green dress that got blood all over it? How about something in that hue? A rich golden bronze to warm up your skin? A deep brown? SOMETHING.
Isn’t this the dress that Jamie Lee Curtis wears in the movie “True Lies” to the set up in the hotel where Ahhhhhhhhhh-nold is waiting for her in the hotel room with a tape recorder of cheesy lines?
And doesn’t Jamie Lee catch a look of herself in the mirror in the hotel hallway and rip all the chiffon off the dress and then slick her hair back with water to look less “Miss Frumptastic” and more “Miss Rump-and-Boobtastic?”
THAT is what girlfriend in the photo shoulda done.
Lower the hemline to at or just below the knees. Remove the lace altogether, and give her an open, rounder neckline with cap sleeves. Put on a killer necklace for embellishment.
Christina is lovely, and a designer who knows how to dress an hourglass figure needs to make her his/her muse!
Miracle Max can’t save this thing. None of it seems to fit properly. The lacy thing makes it look like she forgot to take her nightie off before putting on the black dress. Those shoes are indeed horrible–I usually don’t even notice shoes. How the hxll did the photographer make her look so squat? She’s plenty tall enough.
Whoops, I take it all back. She spent her formative years in Twin Falls, Idaho. This could so easily be so much worse!
I like the concept but the execution needs tuning.
Neckline is all wrong. Bring it down – boatneck, V, deep scoop filling in the underdress – and I am good. It might support a necklace, depending on cut. Can’t someone make this woman a diamond version of Joan’s pen necklace?
Ditto sleeves. Cap. It’s summer.
I’d also take the hem of the underdress down to match closer to the lace.
Shoes need some work.
Eugh… that 80s pseudo-Victorian shoulder line. SO much no on a short busty girl.
Lengthen the dress to just above or just below her knees. Change that horrendous tacky lace to a transparent overlay with perhaps shadow pinstripes or a geometric pattern, or maybe a geometric, smaller crochet effect (tiny diamonds or something?) Keep the fit and style of the underdress, but straighten the top of the bustline. Overdress: make sure it is tailored to perfection, but with the sleeves cut in one to eliminate that nasty shoulder seam, and with a gentle boatneck and NO COLLAR. (NO COLLAR, CHRISTINA! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?)
Give her new, better shoes, and she’ll be set.
I hate everything about this but the shoes. And her face looks weird to me.
This dress is almost there, but not quite. It sort of looks like a fugly Amerian Apparel lace mock-turtleneck (coming Winter of ’11) with black jumper over it.
Lose the mock T in favor of a crew neck, lose the straps on the solid black part, and lose the lace hem. Then I think she’s well on her way to Loren territory.
Also, lose those godawful shoes. I’m pretty sure my Grandmother wore them to church in February.
I think this is an improvement over previous outfits but still she is so pretty I wish they’d dress her better.
This photo reminds me of the tofu in black bean sauce I had for dinner – there was too much tofu and too much black bean sauce.
The lace on the shoes point to the tofu legs. The lace on the hemline points to the tofu, the lace at the neckline points to the garnish, no, to the head that’s too small for the body. Overall its tofu in black bean sauce in a noodle box.
Everything about this is wrong, please give me something else to think about.
I was ready to declare this whole thing a horrible, unsalvageble mess…but then I decided to google for a picture taken from another angle. There is one website with pics from Mad Men Season 4 premiere where she looks WAAAAY better, though not perfect.
Using the info gleaned from that pic, I would allow the lace to stay, but take the neckline from a turtleneck to straight or bateau (I don’t think you want to get rid of the lace covering her chest completely — it looks pretty obvious that the twins are propped up and on display underneath that cover). In the other picture, the length actually seems right, though I am not opposed to the suggestions that it should be lengthened.
And in the other picture (which is pretty big),the shoes are even worse, so those definitely need changing.
She’s so lovely, but her legs aren’t her best feature. They look lumpy and frumpy. The dress is fine and kinda pretty, but not flattering from the waist down.
i really think just changing the neckline would make this FINE. there are many ways to make it great – not least of which would be starting over – but just getting her head to look like it was attached to the rest of her body would be a big improvement.
Just get rid of the lacy bullshit on top, and boom. Smoking. She doesn’t even need accessories.
I have a raging girl-crush on Christina. She has a lovely swan-like neck, but in, addition to the afore-mentioned twins, that lace throttler is giving her a very Miss Scarlett from Cluedo feel.
Another vote for losing the lace, lengthening the skirt, getting better shoes and maybe ringing Tim Gunn.
I am sorry to disagree with so many of my colleagues here, but I think she looks dreadful in this shot. Her face looks too tight, her eyes look locked open in sudden shock.
On to the outfit: This is the worst possible length for her legs. They appear stumpy and fat. The whole thing is just unflattering to her (fabulous) body in every possible way.
This would be my fix: bateau neckline, (she needs to emphasize the width of her shoulders to balance out that bust of hers); cream/skintone chemise rather than black, and cut to match the height and length of the lace exactly; drop the length to beneath the knee; add a wide black satin belt (that skinny piping is doing her waistline no favors). And voila: still not great, but better, and so much more flattering.
Are those bedroom slippers she’s wearing?
And, can I just say … Ali Larter? I thought it was Faith Hill. That’s not a compliment to either one of them.
She has such a stunning face and she pulls off the hair color brilliantly but that lace mock turtleneck makes it seem like everything from the neck up belongs to one body, everything from the neck down belongs to another. I feel like a nice scoop neck would sort this baby right out!
I have nothing to say about poor Christina, but “aaarghtimism” and its attendant limey drunkenness squares perfectly with my 4pm beeriness, so cheers to that and thanks for making me laugh a lot on a daily basis.
Also, Joan Holloway-Harris would totally have snapped her fingers and demanded Elisabeth Moss’s gorgeous green hourglass-flattering dress.
Face/hair: Don’t change a thing, kid.
Above the waist: The lace emphasizes her porcelain features. Either keep the neckline and lose the sleeves, or switch to a boat neck cut.
Below the waist: Cut the lace and lengthen the dress to end above the knee.
Feet: Burn those shoes. Something less heavy and much higher.
And a chunky yet classy bracelet never hurts.
Clue AND Princess Bride references on the same day?? Most excellent.
Christina here should change the neckline — maybe a boat/ballet-neck — and wear better shoes, which would mean just about any pair out there. These remind me of the slippers my high school English teacher hid under her desk and slipped into when she we had a long day of discussing The Great Gatsby ahead of us.
Now I know who she reminds me of — Miss Kitty on “Gunsmoke”! All she needs is a long skirt with a bustle and a headful of corkscrew curls behind those messy bangs. I’m not saying this is a bad thing, either. A long skirt would be the best thing that could happen to this dress, which wants to be in a saloon, but a classy saloon with a few principles, you know?
for heaven’s sake, just change the shoes. those are horrid.
I wore this dress to my 8th grade dance and I thought I looked pretty awesome – of course, I had no boobs then, so maybe that’s the difference.
I think the dress is fine, but she needs to break up all that black. Different shoes and a long simple necklace, imo.
Lose the lace at the top and sleeves (the skirt overlay is fine) and change the old lady shoes. Why is it so hard for both Christina and January Jones to look good on the red carpet? They’re both stunning women. Can’t the Mad Men stylists do an emergency fashion intervention before this year’s Emmys?
Princess Bride quotes are an automatic vote, in my book.
I would definitely do away with the lace on top, although even that wouldn’t be super horrible if the sleeves were shorter and the skirt opened up a little more at the bottom.
Although, if we’re doing away with the lace on top completely, I’d have to change the straps to a halter. Having the straps so close to the shoulders like that just creates this massive section where her chest is — and the high neck does not help.
She looks like she has nice arms and shoulders. A halter would help show them off, and minimize that slightly awkward expanse of chest, but accentuate the girls.
Get rid of the lace altogether… leave the dress tiny and black…add some knee boots (its winter here… gimme a break). and let that sassy hair out and bed head it up a bit…. meow.
Christina is FAB and should dress like she does on Mad Men most of the time… 60′s office girl suits her SO BAD! Otherwise… this is fine… without the lace. Her face looks GREAT!
I would like it if the neckline was either lowered or made into a deep-v, and the straps were v-shaped too (wider near her boobs, and thinner at the top of her shoulders.) I think we could do without the sleeves. Otherwise, I think she looks great.
Girlfriend needs a new dress. Nothing here is flattering.
I almost feel like this is a Scrolldown Fug. I was buying it until bam! Ended at the knees! I think I’d dig it as a full length gown? Or if the lace overlay ended where the skirt does and she’d added some rockin’ heels instead of what look suspiciously like Target ballet flats to me.
Definitely remove the lace around the neck- I simply refuse to believe she wasn’t constantly tugging on it all night. I bet her neck was all red and itchy after a few hours. Bleech. I’d lose the sleeves as well, and if it must remain on the chest get rid of most of it, maybe just a garnish sized slice o’lace that traces the line of the dress?
Definitely remove the lace around the neck- I simply refuse to believe she wasn’t constantly tugging on it all night. I bet her neck was all red and itchy after a few hours. Bleech. I’d lose the sleeves as well, and if it must remain on the chest get rid of most of it, maybe just a garnish sized slice o’lace that traces the line of the dress?
It kills me NOT to see Christina in the Well Played category all the time. If I had that figure, I’d be damned if someone tried to get me into something unflattering w/ all that natural va-va-voom!
I’m not sure, but the sleeves gotta change. Boatneck w/ non-lace cap-length sleeves that have a bit of extra material, for some movement? I have a top like that which is really flattering on the chest w/out looking like I’m busting out all over the place. I also think a ribbon sash of some pretty color would make the dress look less harsh…maybe bright pink, to make it a bit more summery? I know she’s a redhead, but I’ve seen her pull off pink as Joan more than once. & strappy sandles to again summer it up (metallic maybe). & throw a bracelet on there that will work w/ the shoe.
C’mon Christina, curvy women everywhere want you looking fabulous every time you hit the red carpet!
I want to like it so badly, because I think I see where she was going with it, and I also think it must be difficult to dress such a large rack. Try as I might though, I just can’t deal with that collar. I keep looking at it and trying to think “Sexy, yet modest”, and instead, I just keep thinking “Sexy… grandmother.” Too bad. It was almost there.
better shoes is what she needs!
Change the neckline to a scoop (not too low as to overdo the boobage, but enough to stop the floating-head syndrome). Accessorize! Maybe a long chain or grey pearls/beads and a matching chunky bracelet. Change the shoes, perhaps to something strappy.
She is a beautiful beautiful woman. If only she would stop dressing like she shops at Chicos.
Case in point, her cover photo from this month’s Health Magazine: http://www.health.com/health/service/magazine
High necklines generally are not friends of women with larger breasts. Also, I don’t really like her make up. It looks like too much.
Oh no, no, NO!
The matching shoes! And that neckline.
How heinous.
I would change the shoes, they’re pretty silly and too matchy.
Christina’s problem, if she has one (and aside from the fact that designers clearly don’t know how to dress someone of her bodaciousness) is that not only does she have breasts and hips, she’s also got a very short waist, which is almost as much of a fashion sin these days as having flesh on one’s bones.
This is all apropos of the fact that she is not a short woman, and all her height is in her legs, and yet we see photo after photo of her looking stumpy. I totally get not wanting to teeter around on skyscraper heels, but she needs a BIT more height there to lengthen the leg, or else she needs a pair of really fierce boots.
The dress, I think, is unsalvageable. Anne Shirley thought redheads couldn’t wear pink; I think they should avoid black. It just washes her out. Plus, lace should be saved for the boudoir and nowhere else.
I like the lace, except for around her neck. Get your neck out, dude.
lose the lace – ITCHY! and definitely better shoes, I have a fab pair of red patent leather Fluevogs that she could borrow! This woman looks so divine on Mad Men (my boyfriend is already excited about ogling Joan in the new season) and yet looks matronly on the red carpet. I just don’t get it!!!
lose the lace – ITCHY! and definitely better shoes, I have a fab pair of red patent leather Fluevogs that she could borrow! This woman looks so divine on Mad Men (my boyfriend is already excited about ogling Joan in the new season) and yet looks matronly on the red carpet. I just don’t get it!!!
I’d lose the lace entirely. Maybe she could add some detail around the neck…. And I’d accessorize with some real nice shoes and maybe nice blingy jewellery or a contrast clutch or something. The way it looks now… just add a hat and it could be my Aunt Jacqueline dressed for a wedding! Which while it works for a 70 year old grandmother, is NOT a look for a hot actress like Christina.
Yeah! Now that’s what’s up. I saw this same story on HellToDaNaw
I would take the lace off the bottom but leave it elsewhere. It’s kitschy and quirky, and for once, her breasts don’t look like they’re about to jump out and strangle someone. That’s basically all I ask for in her wardrobe, and I so rarely get it.
She is looking miraculously beautiful!! Her matching shoes are adding charm to her personality.
She is looking miraculously beautiful. Her matching shoes are adding charm to her personality.
She’s in a bad production of Chicago with that one.
She should take off this dress, and put on a different dress.
I’d take the lace trim off the bottom of the dress, put her in a bright pair of heels (these ones are so matchy-matchy) – maybe turquoise? And I’d ask her whether she’s secretly caving to the pressures of Hollywood, because her gorge face is starting to look a bit pinched and thin
Ugh- really, she should change her legs. They are not nice. And then the lace and the rest. I know she’s a buxom kitten, as am I- but I would never wrap myself in a short Mexican mourning shroud and call it “hot”.
Lose the lace and the shoes. Add some huge chandelier earrings and some awesome, AWESOME, heels. Done.
I LOVE Christina….but,
When you’re rockin’ a body like hers, I would say, as far as clothes, the simpler the better.
Get rid of ALL the lace, lower the hem a couple inches and a much more sophisticated black open toed high heel would have looked awesome.
Right now she looks like she got in her great grandmother’s attic and tried something on.
It looks itchy and old.
Wear strappy sandals and lower the neckline and hemline.
Uncover the chest and arms, cover the legs. Hair and makeup are fine.
You know, there’s a lot to be said for finding your style and sticking to it, a la Jennifer Anniston. Say what you will, and I’ve said it too, about how she is sometimes boring, but she always looks good.
CH, OTH, never gets it right, unless she’s on set. I vote for her taking a cue from her on set garb and sticking to fitted, patternless clothing with a killer heel. The folks at Mad Men would never put her in something this busy (the lace pattern) or boxy, or short.
A classic black sheath in a sturdy fabric would look great on her.
I sympathize with you Heather, because you feel like you’re always making a “Fug or Fab” about Christina Hendricks and I feel like every time I see her on the red carpet my inner voice yells “Oh god whyyyyyyy?!?” or “Dammit why are you always so close but so not at all?” The dress isn’t BAD persay, it’s just not flattering.
Definitely lengthen the dress, and give her a peep-toe shoe. Then make the lace on top a boat neck or even a cap sleeve collar. Use the remaining lace to make a banana hammock for Long Hamm’s left leaner.
Get rid of the dress completely–it does nothing for her. She has an amazing body with great curves, and I hate to say it, but this dress just makes her look overweight (which she certainly IS NOT). Let me count the ways this dress and shoes combo is wrong: (1) black is not her color; (2) she needs to show off her cleavage; (3) she needs to show off her arms; (4) the lace is tacky; (5) the length of the dress make her knees look wonky; and (6) the weird shoes make her look like she has cankles.
Other shots of this dress were more flattering but overall I agree with all of the above. I can’t really say anything that hasn’t been said already because the readers of this blog are awesome.
Cut out the lace on the neck and at the bottom of the dress.
She needs to show more of her silky smooth porcelain skin on the top and the bottom to offset all that black in between and reveal a higher skin to fabric ratio. She is way too covered up by all that creepy-crawly lace.
The lace — covering her lower thigh, crawling up from her boobs and suffocating her neck — is too much. It makes her face, and what little leg she reveals, scream out at you.
Indeed, her head looks huge in this. Sadly, the overall look is that of a bobble-head doll.
She’s so lovely – I sometimes think all she needs, in any situation, is A BELT to draw attention to that amazing waist.
I think the sleeves should either be longer or gone altogether – as they are they make her arms look stumpy. The skirt looks a little bit too short with those court-pump style shoes. A lighter, strappier shoe would look better I think.
I don’t think the lace inserts are an awful idea, but that particular pattern is icky, reminds me of those sheer curtains you can buy at JCPenney. A flat black mesh would be better.
Miss B has it right. What we’re seeing here is *breakaway lace*, homies.
I’m betting Christina ditched the rest of that gig and turned up the heat on her husband in the limo. Poor bastard: let’s hope he made it.
What I’d do with this dress: lose the sleeves, and that’s probably it. I actually don’t hate the high collar; I like what a departure it is for her.
But the shoes can go. Red would be good.
Also, I think Christina needs to get those five or so pounds back. A girl gets to looking like a bobblehead when she isn’t eating, no matter what her size.
Christina, my love, please: consider an appetizer?
I think it would be more slimming if she ditched the sleeves, but kept the rest of the lace up top. Make her look taller, as this look is a wee bit stumpifying as it is.
I think she looks lovely, but I’d change the shoes… they look heavy and too matchy-matchy!
dump the shoes
Black shoes are a perfect match for her dress.
This outfit is hideous. Lose every scrap of that lace. And lower the neckline, it makes her look like her head is a balloon. And no on the shoes as well, yuck. And I don’t even think she should go with black, unless she’s going to a funeral. She’s too pale.
Wow, it looks like somebody at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum unscrewed the head from the Marlo Thomas dummy in the “That Girl” exhibit and screwed it onto Morticia Addams’ body. And I love her right knee, it looks just like mine. I’m 59.
Lose the lace and drop the hem to just below the knee. That leaves us with a basic LBD that flatters her curves, flaunts her cleavage, and covers her knees. And change the shoes, please.
Here’s the thing. I wouldn’t say a thing unless there’s a photograph of this taken at the correct & flattering angle. This is the worst angle to photograph anyone. Probably would lose some of this lace but I can’t tell.
Looks oddly matronly. She is so spectacularly attractive but this does not do her justice. Neckline and lace are very heavy-looking, bare legs contrast poorly.
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I’m so shocked her boobs are a) covered and b)not choking to death, crammed into the bodice of a dress that should have obviously be let out a little so the girls can breathe.
I will say that she does look lovely.
A lower neckline (don’t mind the lace, actually) would have been much more flattering, but not v-neck low. A scoop neck is a nice alternative. Also, her shoes are just hideous. With something more open, they might be much more flattering, and the shortness of the dress and the whiteness of her legs could be pretty instead of “… oh.” I also wish the dress could have been a couple of inches lower, but really just a couple.
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Anyway, I would just change the shoes, just the shoes.
This entire image is unforgivably Phoebe Price-ish. Horrid!
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