This ensemble contains some trends about which I am sincerely ambivalent at best:
Cropped sweaters. High-waisted, drop-crotched pants. Cropped sweaters with high-waisted drop-crotched pants. That’s a sentence with at least two too many consonants in it. Weirdly, though, I kind of think she’s working it.
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Comments (39):
No, no and no (one more for the ombre hair — a trend that I’m totally not getting, it always look like long overdue hairdye neglect)
Her beautiful face and hair *really* help lift this from the depths of fug. Those shoes are hideous no matter what, though.
The shoes are the only thing I like!
I like all of this… except that hateful bronzer, and the semi-bad ombré. I like a subtle ombré – it’s the way long, undyed hair actually looks.
Very good point, Kat. Very true.
I love it that all the blacks are different. I think she looks great.
She’s gorgeous – no doubt. I didn’t notice her hair or anything else because those shoes are plain awful.
I think Jessica is letting her (amazing) red lipstick sway her. Except for that, this is a FUG.
I can’t stand mismatched black clothes! It makes this even worse. She’s lucky she’s got that FACE, and her lipstick is gorgeous on her, but the outfit is bad.
What works: lipstick, purse & shoes! But, overall, this is FUG!
Hmmm, I am just enough of an 80′s child to appreciate the high-waist pants/crop top look. It’s just what I grew up thinking was sexy. Those shoes, however? Looks like carfeully matched dog-cadaver tongues stretching to lick that really dumb black toenail polish.
ha ha, I’m also enough of an 80s child to find this look repellant. Clothes like this are why I learned how to sew. Too many shoulder pads! Baggy pants!
I actually like the trousers, too. Then again, that beautiful face could save pretty much any outfit.
I don’t care for the outfit, but I am TOTALLY coveting her lipstick!! (I wonder if it’s Revlon, since she’s a spokesperson for them?)
Looking at the original photo, that is way too much makeup. It looks like it was painted on with a trowel – and it’s still drying.
But I love how Alba’s growing into her face. Her formerly soft, near-prepubescent look always kinda creeped me out in a sex symbol. Now I think she’s looking adult, and great, and will probably keep getting better and better as she ages.
Too bad about the clothes and hair, but that’s temporary! Uh, I hope.
If by works, you mean does she look like the spirit of the early 90′s coming to warn us about something dreadful, then yes, it toally works.
Are you saying she’s the Ghost of Decades Past?
I was thinking this is just two lipstick shades away from 1993 and also unemployed. Even someone as beautiful as Alba is surely going to look back in a few years and wonder, “Why the heck was I wearing THAT?”
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
I think I can see underboob, and that means game off for me.
That’s her rib! I don’t think the acting business allows the boob type that would show underboob in this.
Christina Applegate called and she doesn’t want her style from the 90s back and she doesn’t want you to have it either, Jessica. Total no.
This is hideous. I can’t decide which part I hate the most, but for the moment, I’m going to say the shoes with the attached spats. Like spattachments. HORRIBLE.
She’s so very pretty, though.
I’m horrified that this could even pass with you, to be honest. It makes Jessica Freakin’ Alba look really stumpy, and like she had an accident with not washing both parts of her outfit the same amount of times. If that’s the future of style, there seriously is no hope for us. She looks like someone who would be hanging out with Justin Bieber!
Her face=gorgeous, though!
I love this!!! But with different shoes
Please no, not the crop top. I kind of like the shoes with the pants. It’s very ’90s. I don’t think she looks terrible, but I really don’t want to see bare midriffs come back in style.
Whoa. Didn’t Jody Watley wear this outfit circa 1985?
Her hair and face are lovely. I like her softer hair right now. Sometimes she goes too stiff and it’s such pretty hair. I forget sometimes how young she really is. Isn’t she only 26? A mere four years older than Jennifer Lawrence.
Oh, I”m wrong. She’s thirty-two! When did THAT happen?
Jessica Alba goes to a lot of events, but she doesn’t seem to work much.
Ouch…and a hearty LOL.
why oh why do I get a whiff of (the awesome) Gwen Steffani?! Must be the red lipstick and the ‘selling it’ attitude?
Except Gwen Steffani is maybe the only person who could make this hideous ensemble work by attitude alone …. but she would wear better shoes.
For some reason this is thirty-something Dark Angel’s Max in disguise as a gazillionaire mommy out for drinks while she is secretly plotting to assassinate a government terrorist at the bar. In other words, it’s not working on her. Everything is slightly off and I’m just waiting for the real Jessica to come forward and be awesome.
Also I hate hate hate “ombre” hair, I agree that it looks like old color growing out. Lipstick is awesome though.
I almost kind of like this, except that for some reason the different shades and textures of black are unusually jarring. And what I can see of her purse looks hideous.
I think she’s wearing the sweater and pants well.
The shoes? It seems as if someone tarred the top of her feet.
Like I tell my kids: just because you CAN, doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
Something about the crop top – high waist combo makes her look to me as though she’s simultaneously slouching and about to topple over backward. She also appears to have no waist. The more I look at it, the more I wonder when exactly Dali and Escher teamed up to design women’s clothing.
F.U.G.L.Y.
Why is she even still famous? Has she even worked over the last 5 years?