This is a little precious for me.
There’s something pretty about it, and her makeup and hair (and face) are gorgeous with it. But for some reason, I look at the gown, and I think of Amy March from Little Women: sort of spoiled and bratty and in need of a surprise chewing gum accident with one of her ringlets. Then again, I love Little Women, and — spoiler — Amy scoops up Laurie, which is smart, because Jo absolutely should’ve tapped that when she had the chance, despite the fact that he is a dude who goes by the name Laurie. That kind of thing you can forget (with the help of some pet names) if he is smart and cute enough — and we all know he is, because they cast Christian Bale to play him years ago and the movies would not lie to us.
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I think if she’d take off the bottom ruffle, it’d be a lot prettier.
It’s the layer-cake tier that bugs me. Maybe cut one tier off? Something like that. Her hair & makeup (and good looks) pretty much let her get away with it though. God, I wish I had skin like that.)
it’s fabulous from the shoulders up. her jewelry, hair, skin and makeup are all flawless and she’s such a beautiful girl. But the more I look at the dress, the less I like the tiers, the black ribbon sash hanging down, the fact that it flattens her boobs completely.
I think without the second layer of skirt – you know, cut it off at the knee – it would have been prettier. Too much flounce – looks like she belongs on top of a cake.
If it wasn’t tiered, I think this could have been SO MUCH BETTER. The top portion is great, and it would look less Victorian.
she’s so heartbreakingly gorgeous id totally forgive her for ruining my diet and making me crave for cake..lots of it..
I, too, would lop off the lower tier and make it a much less fussy dress. But I’d leave the long black ribbon tangling up her ankles, for funsies.
I’m pretty sure I had a Barbie dress exactly like this (but with sleeves) way back when, and she pulls this off even better. I think half the reason I love it is nostalgia, but I love it nonetheless.
I follow the crowd and say lop off the bottom ruffle. It would still be a little “froo-froo” for my taste, but it looks nice on her.
I’m with everyone else…remove the bottom tier. And maybe a nice necklace (a cameo would be too obvious). What do people have against necklaces these days?
OMG, it’s beautiful, and she looks like Carolina Herrera Jr. in it. Perfect and ladylike and not a thing to be changed.
Flawless. This is the way to do a red carpet.
Completely agree with the others about lopping off the bottom layer to make it less frilly/Scarlett O’Hara and much more youthful. The black ribbon at the bottom looks like a drawstring on a set of blinds, so maybe if you pull on it, the skirt can be raised up? She is otherwise insanely lovely though, isn’t she?
I agree with chopping off the bottom layer. As-is, it reminds me of someone playing dress-up as an olde-timey saloon girl minus a plume of feathers in her hair.
I like the idea of this dress, the retro Victorian girly factor is so very sweet, if only there wasn’t so much of it. One less skirt ruffle and maybe if the lace was a teensy bit less busy. On the plus side, her hair and makeup is flawless. I’m also very much in favor of a dress color that has not been done to death, the blush and black is fab.
As I scrolled down, I thought “well, that’s very pretty, I don’t know what Heather is–oh wait…”, at that point I realized that the dress kept going beyond the first tiered ruffle. I definitely think removing the bottom layer and shortening the black ribbon would make a world of difference.
She did something (anything!) with her hair, so that makes it an instant win, in my book. That said, however, I’m not a fan of the color… it kind of blends a little too much with her skin tone.
I actually loved this in other photos I’d seen of it, I think because it looked more structured. It seemed like a nice, continuous line (sort of tube like) from the top of the bodice to the bottom of the first tier, which I really liked as a modern counterbalance to the lace and pink. From this angle, however, I am saddened by the way it gets flouncy at her waist, which does make it too precious and old-fashioned. But I still like it anyway, because I have warm feelings about her fashion choices and she’s so drop-dead.
She looks beautiful, but the dress reminds me of a doll that my grandmother use to have that hid the extra toilet paper roll under her dress…..
I actually kind of like the tiered look, but I think it needs to be a narrower, less stiff looking a-line. It kind of has a prom-dress look – like for a Gone With the Wind or Miss Kitty’s of the Wild West themed prom or something.
Getting rid of the bottom tier is a good start but I’d ditch the ribbon in favor of a more substantial belt, nothing overwhelming, but I think a contrast to the lace and ruffles would make it look less like a doll outfit and more like a dress for an incredibly fresh faced, modern, young woman.
I really love this dress, the oddly proportioned bow bugged me at first but I can get over that.
Am I the only person who sees two separate pieces here? Its as though she put the lace stuff over a stripy dress. I think I would have prefered the stripy dress without the lace more than with the lace.
She is a gorgeous girl and her hair and face look fantastic, but pink and black just says Gothic Barbie to me. I hate that combo and all of this (except maybe the bodice) is a big, Havisham-esque mes..
I’m with everyone else – too many tiers. As a blonde, she’s wearing the gray wonderfully, but too much flounce. Jennifer Carpenter showed that grey should be sleek, not flouncy.
I like the idea of it, but it’s that bottom tier that I don’t like. Just take off that bottom and I think I’d love it.
Such a pretty girl, such a heinous dress. Looks like a bedskirt from the JC Penney Bordello collection.
I guess I’m with everyone else on getting rid of the top tier? I’d scrap the whole thing and start over. This dress just makes her look so precious- like one of those girls who’s just soooo sweet and gushy and you can’t stand it, but then you feel like a jerk for hating on someone so nice and that makes you hate her even more.
Hahah! You are spot on! She is totally Amy from Little Women! It’s equally too old and too young for her. But, you’re most right that Christian Bale is a total dream-boat in Little Women!
I love a romantic dress, and she looks gorgeous. I don’t love the tiered effect, but I’d rather it be one full length dress rather than just lopping off the bottom tier. Just extend that first tier to the floor and lose the bottom bit.
I like it but it IS a little bit like if Amy March and Scarlett O’Hara had a kind of slutty baby.
I’d ditch that bottom tier and get rid of the black ribbon. Then I’d stick a wide belt around the waist to make it more modern (not super wide, just like, medium wide).
The whole thing looks like a Flamenco dancer’s Giant fan. The all over lace is fine but get rid of the tiering A-skirt and do a sleeker skirt instead. Then the innocuous black waist ribbion can get gone too.
Looks like a toilet paper doll.
Chop the bottom off and she’s good to go.
Stunning from the waist up but the second layer at the moment is unnecessary.
The fit… on the bodice…. so perfect! That’s how you do strapless, a beautifully boned structure that isn’t tight, and sits perfectly securely on a flawlessly placed waist stay.
It’s not only too tiered, but there’s too much horizontal ribboning going on under the lace, which makes it very planar, or something. I’d like to see it maybe over a plain black underskirt, or else with just a bit of assymmetry going on in the overskirt (it’s all Victorian anyhow – perhaps loop up the upper tier?) or both. Other than that, I quite like it, and I LOVE her dressmaker.
I don’t think Jo and Laurie would’ve worked out in the long term, hot though he was, but whatever – Jo was obviously a lesbian and Professor Bhaer was obviously a figment. She really ended her days running the school in a Boston marriage with a fellow bookish lady.
So, I’m mainly commmenting on this because: Little Women! But seriously. I think she looks good altogether, but the dress itself is a bit too twee for my tastes. It is very lady like which suits her I think. Ok, now on to Little Women. *SPOILER ALERT* I have been continuously mystified since the age of like 8 when I first saw the Winona Ryder/Christian Bale/Kirsten Dunst/whoever else movie, that Jo doesn’t accept Laurie! When I read the book later I understood better but I still always thought Jo should have seriously jumped on that train. I mean yes, she ended up with a loving husband of her own, who helped her raise a house full of delightful little boys, but still… LAURIE! He ended up with bratty little Amy. Gross.
Am I the only one who picked up on her bizarre british-esque inflection during the interviews on the red carpet? She’s from Georgia for the love! Maybe all her acting lessons have over-emphasized enunciation, but it sounded more like Madonna week rubbed off on her.
I debated this one for quite some time when I first saw it on the red carpet. But I’ve come down on the side of if not fab, then at least appropriate. She looks great in the dress and I think it kind of fits her image while also literally fitting her body. The black keeps things from being too twee. Overall, I’m a fan.
I’d like ti better if she didn’t have it on backwards.
When I look at this, I want to either nix the top-skirt to make it a lacy full-length gown OR nix the bottom skirt to make it a frilly, but kind of saucy cocktail length dress. I like the colors and how the texture looks, but I feel like two skirts are too much.
Going with one would cut down on the precious bratty look that kind of takes the look down a bit.
Yes – what nearly everyone else is saying…hack off the bottom tier, and you’ve got a perfect dress!
Losing the bottom tier is clearly the answer, and the black sash can go, too. Otherwise she looks lovely enough to be forgiven for the horrible things she did to Bohemian Rhapsody.
Two tiers is one tier too many. But for the red carpet, this is otherwise perfect- hair, makeup, fabric, lace, colors, everything.
I just can’t do tiers. They just look awful matter what you try to do to them.
yep, the lower ruffle makes me think she’s going to have a matching parasol in her other hand….or maybe a sheeps’ crook. it’s too little bo peepy. And does anyone else think she looks flat as a board? She should have put some cutlets in there. But all in all, hair and makeup stunning and the dress isn’t freaky or anything. the lace is beautiful.
I think it could do without one skirt.
it needs OR the top layered skirt, or the lower one. nog both, it ruins the silhouette
Until someone brought up grandma’s toilet paper doll I loved this. Now I’m not sure. But Christian Bale!!! And in the book Jo’s husband is totally sexless and as old as her father. Ewww.
I want to like it, because she’s so lovely. However, I don’t think southern belle brothel is an actual style.
Lose the bottom tier and we’re good to go. Dresses should not even have tiers. Cakes, theatres, some buildings, even, but not dresses.
Make the tiers straight and not poufy and she’d be perfect.
In a year with SO much horrible hair, Dianna’s perfect hair an makeup buys her a pass on almost anything.
But yeah, the dress as is belongs on someone no older than 13. The bodice fit is exquisite. I’d ditch the top skirt, all the black ribbons, the hemline trim, and I’d take the ornament off the gauze layer, so that only the bodice was lacey.
I know what you’re saying but I like the dress on her – she looks lovely!
My husband’s name is Laurie. He’s British and it’s commonly used as the shortened version of Laurence. Sometimes people wonder if I’m talking about a lesbian lover though. Just sayin’.
She’s absolutely lovely no matter what she’s wearing. On this, I’d either chop off the bottom tier entirely or make it one long skirt. I really dig the old-fashioned vibe this is giving off–what’s wrong with a little Scarlett O’Hara thing?
Lose the lower tier and it would be a cajillion times better.
There’s something very Goth about it which I love. That’s probably not her point of view. But that’s how I chose to view it, so I love it.
It looks like two stacked lampshades, and that ain’t good. It’s the double tier that’s the problem here.
I have to agree with most everyone else. The tiered part doesn’t work. Shorter would have been cute, but then it crosses over into, “Is this Emmy appropriate?” territory. Hmmm…Perhaps if it had just gone that length without the tiered element, just one long skirt.
I think it must be almost unanimous: two tiers cause tears. One tier (which you cannot have one of, because a tier alone is a skirt) would be worth a cheer.
It looks like a poorly thought out Photoshop comp job, like, “OMG, that skirt is cute! Let’s ‘shop another one right below it!”
(All I can think about in regard to the Laurie: Boy or Girl? debate is how much I’d like to change my name to Laurie so that Hugh could either marry me or adopt me and I could be (::sigh::) Laurie Laurie.)
The way the black ribbon carries down to the bottom tier makes me think that there are actually two mini-Diannas stacked up and you could lift off the top one and presto – there’s a matching one on the bottom! Seriously, can’t you just see it!!?
The dress is not awful, but kind of forgettable. The bangs are still god-awful, and the pose is so awkward and stiff. I am actually shocked that we got through that whole sandwich-related semi-fugging without noting that she desperately needs to eat one! She’s become all sharp and pointy angles.
The dress is pretty, but I think that’s mostly due to her GORGEOUS face.
I honestly wanna love this dress, but I can’t help but think of Little Bo Peep. All homegirl needs is a staff, and a bonnet and she’s the prettiest version of a shepard I’ve ever seen. She’s gorgeous, and her stylist could’ve done better.
Not the sort of thing I usually like but somehow I love this. It might be because I want to burst into tears seeing Quinn so gleamingly happy and not fraught over family troubles and teenage pregnancy. Or maybe Dianna just carries this one off for me.
Not the sort of thing I usually like but somehow I love this. It might be because I want to burst into tears seeing Quinn so gleamingly happy and not fraught over family troubles and teenage pregnancy. Or maybe Dianna just carries this one off for me.
Make that serenely happy…..
I like the Victorian thing. I think it would be better in a tea length, without that bottom flounce thing. Nix the hangy ribbon, and make it a tidy black sash belt thing.
Nothing wrong with pink and black lace, very bedroomy and yet demure.
Plus she’s tres pretty…
On the one hand, I love the Victorian thing she has going on, and the way Dianna is a lovely girl. On the other, it IS the Emmys, darling, and we wear beautiful drapey gowns here. Not saying this isn’t a lovely dress, but she could’ve made it more young with a diamond necklace and maybe embellishing the belt. Or would that be going too far? I don’t know. I have to ignore my love for this girl in general and focus on the dress. What if, say, Blake Lively wore it?
HA! The hemline would be ruched up and the top hem would be slashed at the front, using her Old Faithful boob tape to make sure the ladies don’t show their faces in public.
Final Verdict though? She’s an Emmys virgin. She’s young, and still has at least a few more tries ahead of her. This is a nice “First Base” kind of dress.
I just wish the person responsible had rejected the temptation to add the second skirt; it looks like she’s smuggling her underage sister into the party. But maybe this dress is like those lazy guy pants that zip off into shorts. Give me a knee-length version, preferably with a pair of cool, sexy pumps, and then we can talk.
it just irritates me. too lazy to make a whole dress, they just repeated the skirt to make it formal? FAIL.
Lace is not the best choice for the Emmys of the 21st century, but what truly upsets the effort is the pink is wrong–it sickens her luscious skin.
My Gran used to have these cheap barbie knock-offs with dresses like this that she used to house an extra roll of toilet paper.
That said, I love the top and I could have forgiven her for just the first ruffle. Still it would have been better if it was just floor length and no lace scallop detail on the bottom hem.
I’d like to see someone else wearing it, with a soupcon of irony and more bite than dianna has here. maybe taylor momsen to classy up her material girl plagiarism? or christina aguilera in her lady marmalade years?
I think it’s a little too stuffy and old for her. She’s gorgeous though.
She is looking good in this light makeup and this pretty dress.Thank you for sharing…
It does look great from the waist up, the eerily reminiscent of my prom dress from 1982.
I agree that Jo was out of her mind not going for Christian Bale… I mean really?! Obviously it’s what led to her shoplifting escapades, cause in reality you cant comback from something so disastorous. Also what kind of trollop sister dates, then marries the guy your sister was obsessed with…
With that said I wish this dress was some sort of Emmy stunt where Jane Lynch would run up and pretend to pants her but in reality it was pulling off the 2nd mock skirt to reveal the real dress. All the girls on Glee are gorgeous but I feel like sometimes their stylists have a hookah circle together before dressing them sometimes and chaos ensues…
If she’d just get rid of the bottom ruffle, it’d be lovely. The bottom is just too darn much.
horrendous. she looks like a toilet roll cover.
Take off the bottom tier (did i spell that right?) and then it will be pretty!
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