I kind of like this — her supremely smarmy expression notwithstanding — but that might be because I’m a magpie who LITERALLY had to make a rule that she couldn’t but any more metallic items. I can’t help it, you guys. If it’s shiny, I WANT IT. I’m two weeks away from looking at a roll of aluminum foil and saying aloud to my empty apartment, “yes, I could made a cute skirt out of this.”
So I recognize that I’m not a Reliable Narrator here, and even I wish the cut of this dress wasn’t so very Twee Little Girl — there’s Mod, and then there’s Middle School, and I’m pretty sure this falls into the category of the one that involves recess.
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She looks really, really skinny – i.e. scary-skinny.
I think it should be straight and longer. Straight because if longer with this shape, you are definitely headed towards recess and longer because if the tights weren’t opaque, we’d be flying first class to Crotchville! Love the color though!
Yes – straighter, longer and minus the yucky twee cutesy collar.
Smack the smugness out of her face to start.
Yep. At least aunt Julia had a couple of hit movies before she got all smug.
Yep, she’s definitely got the “smug fug” down.
Move waistline down 4 inches, add belt. Done! Where’s the coffee?
See, I need coffee, because I meant to say lengthen the dress as well. Jeez. It is a great color, isn’t it?
This. Agree.
First off I’d like to wipe that smug look off her face. And then I would like to send her and her even smuggier Aunt J. to Mars so I don’t ever have to see either one of them again.
This dress isn’t doing it for me. However, I love the color though. I want to see it on a different dress. (And a different person.)
This post has nothing to do with Julia, so why bring up the hate for her? Absolutely unnecessary!
Nah, their smugness is the common, dis-likable factor.
The copper fabric is nice, but the fit is atrocious, and the opaque tights are too heavy for sleeveless. Maybe just darker hose.
Horrible fit, stupid collar, and thick black tights with high heels? Ugh. A waste of that nice shiny material.
I think if it was longer and had a slim, structured cut, with a defined waist and narrow black belt, it would be more schoolmarm than student. And I mean that in a good way.
I LOVE IT, but I have your same condition, Jessica, I can’t pass by anything metallic and not want it! I love shiny & sparkly and I want to wear it! I’m sorry, but I couldn’t make that rule for myself!
Anyway, I would just take off the translucent black collar off and it would be perfectly not Middle School-y and totally Mod! And, if I could buy it, I’d wear it out of the store!
Honestly, I’m with you in the aluminum foil thing. I GET IT. I’m digging the color and collar; this dress would be AMAZING if it were a simple shift shape.
I love this website, and have for years, but sometimes I can’t focus on the clothes when the girl wearing it is so malnourished. This girl’s knees look like doorknobs because she’s so thin. Can we start a category for “Girls Who Need To Eat”?
I think this needs a cap sleeve, no collar, and a drop waist instead of that awkward not-quite-empire deal it has going on. Then we’d have something really going.
Plus I agree that once we get rid of the black collar the black tights will look really dumb, and if it’s 5 inches longer from the drop waist, she won’t need them for sanitary reasons any more – so dump them in favor of bare legs, and maybe a mixed-metal shoe, like her bracelet combo.
Say it with me, people: “LOOK INTO PANTS!”
This is the result of a Project Runway challenge in which the contestants go to the Hardware store, and the winning dress is made of copper wool.
make it a sheath, leave it sleeveless and mini. leave the black tights, but ditch the shoes for more sophisticated, non-peep toe pumps. and let her have her smug expression! if i were her age with access to designer clothes i’d be feeling pretty smug myself.
She’s getting a head start on Halloween. And yes, I do love sparkly things, but this one needs a trick-or-treat bag.
Isn’t it unbelievable that she’s the age that Julia was when she made Steel Magnolias?
I think if it didn’t have that weird rib-cage waist thing it would be cute. I would like it as just a simple shift, though it is just a few shades away on the color wheel from being a Christmas outfit for a little girl
WHOA. She is?! That’s….you just blew my mind.
Remove the collar and make it fit better. it looks like a sack on her…. I really love the color!
It looks like she hemmed it with a stapler just before she walked out the door. Because it wasn’t *quite* short enough. We used to do that with our school uniforms.
I gave up on this girl a while back. Her sense of style, or lack thereof, is firmly rooted. The dress wouldn’t be too bad if the waist wasn’t so high and if she threw on a belt and if the skirt was a tad longer.
I think it’s got potential, but needs to be shorter or longer. Is it a shirt (shorter) or dress (longer)? The length now just looks like she forgot her pants. And if it’s a shirt, through on some pants.
That dress is a terrible waste of some really awesome fabric. I love well-deployed metallics and I adore rusts and coppers. But the cut of this is dreadful. ER’s styling and expression are also pretty bad, but mainly I just want someone to use this fabric to make a sleek black-trimmed cocktail dress, no twee detailing allowed.
Tighter bodice, lower waistline, fuller skirt.
This dress would look better if she was eating a sandwich. It would look amazing if she was eating a cheeseburger
She’s sporting a toddler’s Halloween pumpkin costume.
The outfit’s just meh. Typo Alert: change the “but” to “buy” (Sorry, it’s the teacher in me).
1) My brain cannot accept the fact that this garment is copper and not orange if the collar is black.
2) I can respect the mod idea and even get behind the chiffon collar, with two stipulations: There must be a drop waist, and for those opaque black tights must be hose.
It’d be nice if someone changed the color of the collar– my instinct is something of the same color family, so we could go with neutral hose, but I’d entertain navy or mustard or something. However, my biggest fix would be to fix the proportions here … and fix the heavy, “I don’t understand the color wheel” feel of the tights.
And remove the extraneous “for” from my comment. XD
i want the waist to hit her just a little lower and be nipped in a tiny bit more. dropping the waist a touch would also give her a couple of much-needed inches in the thigh and (i assume) booty regions.
The first thing that popped into my head when I saw this was “cheap.”
Jessica as a magpie is one of my favorite running themes of this blog. “Oooh, shiny!” I actually want to increase the shimmer in my wardrobe, so feel free to send some stuff my way.
I think the way it fits around her ribcage makes it look like her head and legs are all out of proportion. Yes, she is a thin girl but I think the dress somehow makes her head look really big compared to her legs. I’d like it if it had a fuller skirt, the waist were a tad lower, and the bodice more fitted. It would still be sort of a “little girl” silhouette but I wouldn’t mind with the interesting fabric (SHINY!!! SPARKLES!!!).
In this dress, Emma Roberts reminds me of Angela in The Office, who is so petite she needs to shop for children’s sizes at the mall – and clothes for large colonial dolls from American Girl, when Gap Kids are too flashy.
YES!!
The dress is fine. She needs to eat a sandwich. Or 50.
She has always been tiny (I was watching Wild Child on the weekend and can vouch for that) but at the moment she looks terrifying! She’s so frail, it’s really sad!
That having been said, the idea behind the dress is adorable, it’s just that the actual execution didn’t work out so well, the cut is unflattering and badly fitted, and something needs to be done about the way it looks around the arm holes – it’s just kinda weird.
Just a 1-inch thick fitted waistband below the hem. And a smile. Perfect!
maybe a black belt around the waist to make it less poofy..
Lower the waistline and define it a bit more either by fitting it closer to the body or adding a belt and cover more thigh. I totally agree that, as it is, it looks like she forgot her pants and if not for the tights, she would be flashing her goodies, possibly before she even tried to sit down.
What is happening with her boobs in this?
Oh my god yes! I thought I was the only one that was noticing this. Uber skinny or not, a bra would be her friend in this dress.
yes, the boobs are strange too!
I agree with the comments above.
1. eat a sandwich
2. wear a dress that fits. This dress does not fit.
3. Wipe that smirk off your face.
I thought it was a *whispers* a play suit at first (which would suck whatever the colour/fit/fabric) but if you say dress …..okay. If its a dress, longer and shift shaped would help. I echo the whole ‘eat a sandwich ‘thing too – not getting at Emma…..but there is such a thing as too skinny.
Something about the waistline on this makes me think of those kids matching puzzles where you get to put the right legs with the right mid-section and the right head…and this puzzle wasn’t quite put together right. I think it’s the perspective and the angle but her top and bottom look a little…off….
I think it’s really cute. Heather & Jessica admirably refrain from bashing celebs’ characters, but I gotta say, I get the feeling this girl is a total beeyotch.
Yeah…I am so sick of marginally-talented nepotistic youngsters being idolized for their fashion savviness. If we all had the money to buy well-made designer clothes, most of the time, we would all look fab too. Ladies, on that note…why do you feature the Kardashians so much?
Blech.. ha ha ha! (Plus, I think it would be OK to make note of said “Celebutards” characters when warranted…!)
Ditch the collar and steer clear of the round, high neckline and it will look a lot less twee. Actually, I’m surprised now that Zooey Deschanel hasn’t shown up somewhere in this, it is so her.
I’d keep the collar, drop the waist, take it in a bit and make it fall straight. The tights don’t bother me. I think she looks rather lovely.
Huh. In the minority here but I’m not a fan of this fabric. I agree with Kara. Looks cheap. Like you could use it to wrap chocolates in or something. The whole thing is kind of an ill-fitting disaster, actually.
she needs to be brunette. i hate her blonde (i prefer julia with darker hair too)
she is young, pretty girl with great figure, why is she always dressed so badly for the events?! when i see her on candids, 90% of the time she looks so cute, but on red carpets – she’s a mess
think about how chic that dress would be if the chiffon collar and tights/shoes were dove grey instead of black. so close.
*breaths deeply* I am really sick of young starlets (and I’m looking at you, Michelle-not-Destiny’s-Child-Williams) looking twee. I look back over the starlets in the 30′s and I see young women WHO LOOK LIKE WOMEN. Strong, confident sillhouettes – not slutty or trashy, but poised. Granted they were likely dressed by the studios but still.
I’m going to not accept this because of the collar – I’ve just decided that I don’t like collars. And the ribcage waist AGAIN seriously, is there a name for that? I can’t even express how badly that unflattering waistline chaps my hide; and finally, it’s the same color, same fabric that the sleeveless jumpsuit (Sleeveless…v-neck…jumpsuit.) was that I had to wear in the Jr. Hi drill team dance number we did at the basketball game halftime. An episode from my past I did not want to smell again.
Are peep toe shoes with tights realllly acceptable? Or did you overlook them? I have to know!
Make it longer, narrower, ditch the waist seam, scrap the collar, and make the tights sheer and not opaque. Boom you’re done.
Maybe it’s the odd (downward) camera angle, but the proportions are all wrong. The top of the dress is too heavy for that skimpy bottom, and the shoes + opaque stockings combine into a solid black mass that’s too clunky and heavy for a dress that wants to be a bit of sartorial frippery. Agree on the shiny shiny stuff, but orange and black at Halloween? Really?
Who dresses these people, anyway?
Knobbly Knees.
God I wish she would get rid of the blonde. She’s so pretty and, I’m guessing, rich – why the brassy blonde? Why???
I’m so over waistlessness.
Well, she looks fantastic from the chin up…
Yeah, not liking the proportions or fabric selections of this dress.
She needs to lose those earrings and put on a black belt. I think it’d be great then!
A little longer and less empire-waisted with a tough black belt and I bet she’d look super-cool!