Leaving aside the fact that you can see her bra here — a tactical error, but surely not an intentional one — is it crazy that I kind of love this?
I feel like she’s ten minutes away from walking on screen in an old black and white movie, carelessly tossing her clutch onto a cocktail table, lighting a cigarette (what is unattractive now is so much more glamorous in the Olden Days of Black and White), tossing back a mai tai, and drawling that Hawaii’s awfully dull in early December. Then, of course, the Japanese would attack and she’d have to choose between her old boyfriend Ben Affleck With Frosted Tips and….wait, how’d this turn into Pearl Harbor? That movie’s not even in black and white. REGARDLESS. I wish she were wearing different shoes, but I love how much she loves pattern, and I think this is maybe the only outfit ever to actually nail a Formal Casual dress code.
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I’m in love with it. But, I love long, flowy, patterned skirts. Which sucks for me cause I’m all of 5’2″. She looks wonderful though. (I think the shirt could have been a little better, that’s the only compaint I have.)
here’s a better question. Why is Rachel McAdams at this C/B listy movie premiere
I wonder how many times the pointy toes of those shoes actually got caught in the skirt? I yielded to the trend last year and bought a pair of shoes like that, and instantly remembered why I HATED them in 1988. They suck, and the toes catch on everything, including perfectly inoffensive office carpet.
I do love this. The skirt could stand a hemming (seriously, is the Formal Casual Train really a thing?) but it looks really good.
I love it. I seriously love it. And I love her. It is my fervent gossip wish that her and Michael Sheen make it!!
I like this take on “casual top with fancy skirt” WAY better than the Tina Fey version in her Garnier commercial.
I love this! Also, she sort of looks a little like Piper Perabo to me with her hair like this, but that’s hardly a terrible thing.
Her hair looks fried within an inch of its life (and poorly dyed – go back to brunette, Rachel!!) and yeah. YOU CAN SEE HER ENTIRE BRA. And that top looks like the top half of a scuba suit. Fail.
The hair is a big detraction from the grace and casual glam of this outfit. She’e sporting a lovely smile, though! Great attitude. Now, just fix that hair, starting with the nasty middle part, then the roots, then the color…. Chestnut brown with some highlights in the waves? Ah, there.
Her hair colour doesn’t work with the blue and I wish it were actually a dress and not a shirt tucked into a skirt.
What are you talking about? Blondes look wonderful in blue. I’ve never heard of a HAIR color clashing with a garment unless we’re talking red hair.
I WANT THE SKIRT.
I can’t figure out if Ginger or Mrs. Howell would wear this on Gilligan’s Island. Perhaps they would fight over it.
Hmm… First of all, I love this colour on her. But I just can’t bring myself to like this wallpaper, Laura Ashley floral trend that’s happening right now. Michelle Williams wore what would have been a fabulous dress for her Letterman appearance if it weren’t for the hideous floral pattern. I know i’m alone in this but I really hate the florals.
I don’t know why, but I don’t like her. I do know that I hate her hair 75% of the time, including here. Middle part, go away!
LOVE LOVE LOVE. I have qualms, and they are twofold: the pointy-toed shoes (in which I’m obviously not alone), and the middle part in her hair. If you don’t have bangs/are not 10, don’t part your hair in the middle. Come on.
Love the color, love the patterned skirt, HAAAAATE the tight short sleeves. This is also the feature that ruined awesome Diane Lane’s otherwise gorgeous Globes dress for me. (I know I am the only person in the universe who didn’t worship that dress. But why not fluttery cap, sleeveless or just strapless? Whyyyy?)
I like it a lot. And I think she looks like a happy, healthy, normal Olsen girl here.
The shirt, oh how I hates it! Love the skirt, but that shirt looks cheap, cheap, cheap. And the shoes are wrong, but I don’t viscerally hate them like I do that horrible, horrible shirt.
I like it! It’s much better than it deserves to be for the premiere of a movie starring The Rock.
She date Ben Affleck?
dated. Spelling, Alex!
No!
I’d like it better if it was a dress in the pattern fabric and she was wearing strappy sandals with it rather than pointy-toed pumps.
I’m pretty sure it’s a dress, it’s from the Peter Som s/s 2012 collection
<a href="http://www.google.nl/imgres?q=peter+som+s/s+2012&um=1&hl=nl&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=909&tbm=isch&tbnid=cEc2HPhUFemq5M:&imgrefurl=http://www.newyorkmodelsblog.com/peter-som-ss-2012/&docid=YMU5vHvmaxtIhM&imgurl=http://www.newyorkmodelsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Melissa-T-Peter-Som.jpg&w=398&h=600&ei=NTgsT9u-DM3t-gb69IykDg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=215&sig=115424264295175677688&page=1&tbnh=140&tbnw=92&start=0&ndsp=42&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0&tx=44&ty=74"as worn here"
That being said, while I love the dress (or shirt/skirt) I hate the shoes. I really don’t see a problem with the hair though. What’s wrong with a middle part?
Oh dear, something obviously went wrong there. Apologies for the hideous url!
Celestica, you’re totally right – it’s the same as the Peter Som! I appreciate it a little more in that light (especially because a visible bra is such an improvement over visible nips). Still wish the shirt was in a better fabric. But she wears it well.
So super gorgeous. Both her and the outfit. Peter Som is great!
Love the look & concept, but the materials both look too plastic-y. Less polyester and we’d be set.
And her hair/makeup look is reminding me of a young Meg Ryan.
I did not really notice the outfit because I got distracted by seeing The Rock in that poster. Rrrr.
Agree with BooRad, I’m getting a definite Olsen vibe. The sleeve length seems awkward; slightly shorter would have been better. I’d also swap the pointy black shoes for a pair of fun platform sandals.
The skirt is lovely, and I also wish I could wear it, but at 4’11″ and menopause, I’m as wide as I am tall; kind of a drawback. But if I was a tall young drink of water, I would not wear this lovely skirt with a crappy sheer t-shirt and witchy-poo shoes and hair fried to an inch of its life.
SCREAM I love it. I’d like the hair to be dark and the shoes to be… not 80s but otherwise I WANT THIS OUTFIT but the bargain version.
Man I am doing a lot of all-caps shrieking up in here today.
I rather love it, though I’d have preferred it with a different set of shoes. Kinda miss her dark hair, but she isn’t anywhere near Lohan levels of bad blonde.
I love this! However I would have massive sweaty pit marks, no matter how freezing or how many times I sprayed anti-persperant. Sleeves, my arch nemisis.
I like the skirt but think it could of been styled better.. Meaning totally diff top, strappy plat forms and a delicate shoulder bag
LOVE IT & WANT IT! SUPER FAB!!!
Thank you for using “REGARDLESS” instead of that abomination that people throw about these days in its place. It’s telling that I was unconsciously expecting “irregardless” even though I know you girls are awesome writers.
wow, the fact that this was voted as fab makes me really question the reader base here now. i usually am in agreement and even if i’m not, understand the other side. i really do not here.