Emmy Red Carpet: Cheryl Hines

Consider my enthusiasm curbed:

I hate this so much. The color is great, and from the front it looks lovely, but I seriously hate the back.  This sort of thing can be done, but it has to be done carefully, or you look like a junior level figure skater who’s lost her way. Remember Cate Blanchett in that amazing Galliano hummingbird dress? This one:

That’s how you do formal back shenanigans. It’s whimsical, but it’s understated.

This is neither whimsical, NOR understated:

This looks like the formal gown version of the alphabet icing you buy in the Baking Sundries aisle at Vons.  You know. This stuff:

Add that to the fact that her Back Icing looks like the shiny, crazed smile of the fearsome Three-Eyed Jewel Monster, and I find myself, frankly, creeped out by the entire thing.