Fug or Fab: Kristin Davis


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I believe this dress is from the same Oscar de la Renta collection as the dress Jennifer Lawrence wore to the SAG awards:

I am not TOTALLY in love with it. There are aspects of it that I really like — the color is sassy — but on the whole, I’m just not sure that it’s doing Charlotte here any favors. (It’s just not that into her? SEE WHAT I DID THERE? Nothing like an easy SatC pun from five years ago — we offer Fug Nation only the freshest material.) It’s like, resoundingly fine on her, and if we’ve learned anything from Sex and the City, it’s that…well, actually, I’m not sure if we didn’t learn that sometimes fine is okay. We might have. We learned a lot of crazy things on that show/movies, like, if you’re bored at home you should consider going to the Middle East and creating an international incident, and that Sarah Jessica Parker believes in sleeping in a bra. So now I’m all confused.

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  1. jessicookie

    Bright pink, black straps, and a DARK RED boob bow? I don’t think so. Add in a slightly stumpifying length, and this is a major disaster.

  2. Jessica

    Whoa. I didn’t even realize the bow was red.

  3. DanerKebab

    Lose the straps and the boob bow, hem it two or three inches, and give her less aggressive shoes…. then we’d have a winner.

  4. katie

    I like the color a lot. Not crazy about the bow. But I hate those shoes with it, and the length needs to be an inch shorter. Not doing sweet Charlotte any favors by hitting her at the widest part of her calves.

  5. maryse

    i hate this outfit with the fire of 1000 suns. you notice the dress and not the lovely ms. davis.

  6. Bella

    Very Charlotte-y. Remove the bow and try different shoes. Those things make her legs look stumpy.

  7. Emily

    Kristin, you are 46. This is too twee for you. Just no.

  8. Nina

    Emily, you took the words out of my mouth. This reeks of “twee.”

    I think it’s the skirt. I don’t mind the color, its just too much. If this were a mini that was clinging to her curves, she could pull it off. The floaty skirt makes her look hippy and gives the impression that she’s trying too hard.

  9. Emily

    The bottom of that dress reminds me of the super frilly, brightly colored skirts my niece wears all the time with sparkly t-shirts. She’s six.

  10. Katharine

    It looks like an outfit designed for a fruit-scented doll rather than a real person.

  11. Aa

    Er… Suri called….and she told ME to tell YOU to stay AWAY FROM THE DRESSING UP BOX!

  12. Aurelija

    Oh, honey, no. Kristin Davis is gorgeous. but she’s in her late 40s. The cut, hemline, and shoes remind me of something I would have loved to wear to my freshman year homecoming dance. Not okay.

  13. Shannon

    I think she is one of the most beautiful women existing, and this is a total NO. Mutton dressed as lamb.

  14. LoriK

    I agree that she’s beautiful, but this outfit is way too young for her. Which is not to say that she’s too old. She’s fab. The dress is too young. She is (or should be) past this sort of cutsieness.

  15. Lynne

    Yeah, the bow and the straps are ruining it for me. It would look cute as hell if it were bowless and strapless.

  16. Anne B

    Plenty of things are worse than Bow On Boobs.

    Having your mom talk about your training bra in front of your friends when you’re 13? One. A guy who breaks up with you via Post-It Note? (Reference! Got one!) Another.

    This is still pretty bad. Fug!

  17. Jen

    That’s just terrible. I agree with those saying this looks like something you’d put on a child, but, frankly, I think inflicting that thing upon a child is almost social services reporting worthy. I HATE the pink, where you’re reading “sassy” all I see is “cheap.” And the weirdly dropped-but-not-quite waist and the tiering underneath? This looks like someone tried to mash a bunch of things they liked about other dresses into one uber dress but it came out disastrously wrong- this thing is a Frankenstein! And she seems so happy and oblivious! It’s like she’s completely detached from the horrors occurring below her neck!

  18. Rowynn

    I see several bandwagons going by here, and I’m jumping on the “stumpy legs” one. I guess I could have felt better about the other obvious faults with this dress if it wasn’t so unbecoming to her legs. Maybe it’s partly the shoes, too… I dunno. I just know that I feel bad for her.

  19. Annabeth

    Make the bow black and hem this to knee length, and I think it works. It’s still an extreme look — and probably best suited for someone younger, I’m afraid — but it would work on its own terms. As it is, this is a little too wackadoo cutesy.

  20. Jo

    Now if that was SatC prequel and Charlotte was, say, 12, that would be a win.

  21. Mire

    Stumpy McFrumpy.

  22. Donna

    Is it the shoes, or are her ankles kinda thick?

  23. witjunkie

    Yecchhh. I didn’t like the Jennifer Lawrence one and I don’t like this one. Too! Much! Pink!

  24. FurryPurry

    Kristin is a real pear with big tighs and canckles- the fact that people don’t notice this shows she knows exactly how to dress for her body type. (Take note Misha!) The dress here is too young for her in its execution but the shape itself fits her really well. She did pick the absolutely wrong shoes thou as they cut of her legs at the worst point.

  25. Lynnie

    Under the “Related” head, the first image that comes up (from May 26, 2010) is K. Davis in a grown-up version of this dress (a form-fitting, full-length sheath with no boob bow). And it looks smashing.

  26. Sara B.

    Kristen looks so sweet she’s likely to give us all diabetes. The dress. The bow. The color. The smile. The tilt of the head. Mutton dressed as lamb for sure.

  27. ali

    My vote? OH, honey, no!

    I think Kristin wears a lot of tea length and I always think it makes her look stumpy(especially when they put her next to Cynthia Nixon on SatC). This is no different. And the tight bodice into the full skirt is doing her no favors. Lastly, I like my Hot Pink! in a Hi-lighter, not a party dress.

    Love the shoes, though!

  28. vandalfan

    Indeed, lambing. Wrong color, bad fit, and what, did she just suffer whiplash?

  29. melissa

    It’s a cute dress but not for her. The hem of the dress hits her in the wrong spot on her leg, she has piano legs and the hem highlights that, and it’s not helped by the straps so close to her ankle which cut her legs up even more making them look more short and squat. No honey, just no……

  30. Bambi Anne Dear

    Jeez, I didn’t think this’d be a NHN win. Yes, perhaps a bit twee for her but I think the problems are with the hair and the shoes. Hair is a mess and shoes are not delicate enough. Those platforms just aren’t going away are they?

  31. anonymoose

    this is unfortunate.

    hair and make-up look great though, from what i can tell at this awkward angle.

  32. Veronica

    I’m somewhere “meh” and “lovely.” I don’t think she hit it out of the ball park in terms of the color or length, but she does look cute. I also admit to liking the shoes more than usual. Platforms (as much as I love them) are starting to a grate a little with their ubiquitousness, but these fall in just the right place for me in terms of the height and design.

  33. Balu

    So fun design. Meh

    http://news.jungle.mn/fashion

  34. Kaillismill Desuza

    This lady is pretty cute. I love her. Best wishes for her career.
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  35. Melissa

    I fugged it before looking, but it’s even worse compared to the Jennifer Lawrence one.
    It looks like she tried to make the other one by dyeing something at the back of her closet and sticking a bow from a gift box on the front.

  36. CH

    The dress is too long, and those shoes do make her look stumpy. It’s just not working for her.

    Sidenote: I’m glad other people were flummoxed by SJP always sleeping in a bra on that show. It always baffled me.

  37. Maria

    That is not a dress for a grown woman, even one as lovely as Kristen Davis. I realize that bows are trendy right now, but they need to be deployed carefully if one has already graduated from high school. Also, the length combined with the straps on the shoes is giving her cankles, which I am sure she does not have.

  38. rigmarole

    Dressing like some kind of fricking ingenue in your mid-forties is just plain sad. (I thought the same about that polka dot dress she wore last month, actually, though it was much, much prettier than this mess.) She needs a style intervention and fast.

  39. Gigi

    Kristen has what Molly Ivins described so funnily (in reference to the odious Phyllis Schafley) as “Episcopal thighs”.

  40. BG2

    Looks like something ms. piggy would wear, or some other puppet or inanimate character.

  41. vandalfan

    Oh, gosh, don’t you miss Molly Ivins?

  42. gryt

    Way too young for her. It’s like a little doll dress. Creeps me out a bit.

  43. JanetP

    She is not 10 years old. Fug.

  44. qwerty

    lmao are you serious? It’s a f**king disaster

  45. mw

    mutton dressed as lamb

  46. rljada

    cankles