Let’s start with the hair: I WOULD be really over ombre hair, if — to borrow from Ross Gellar — I had ever been under it in the first place. I gather it’s supposed to look naturally sun-kissed, but to me it just looks fried.
Also, girlfriend may need to reconsider bangs. They will not cooperate for her. Right now they’ve sculpted themselves into a tiny pair of pants.
As for the dress, it’s definitely trippy. What I can’t decide is if it’s in a fun way, or in a truly freaky way — the kind that might end up part of a Guillermo Del Toro/Evil Dead II hybrid nightmare, wherein a lady’s pelvic frock eyes start blinking messages to me in Morse code and they translate as, “Diet Coke is PEOPLE.”
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I actually really like the pattern–I’m a sucker for a trippy pattern–but it’s so unflattering! She’s so pretty; I wish she could dress like it sometimes!
This.
I agree with Chelsea – I don’t mind the pattern, in general, but it’s not flattering how the widest and lightest part of it sits right at the waistline, and the narrow part is drawing attention to her inner thighs. It’s like the exact opposite of those optical illusion dresses that give you a perfect hourglass figure. Ooh! A dress that gives me the appearance of being thick-waisted and makes everybody look directly at my crotch! Just what I’ve always wanted.
RIGHT!? it makes an unwide girl look doublewide.
I’m okay with patterns, but this is too much for me. Topping off all of that with the little collar (and those shoes) makes it even worse.
@Lynn – was what I said. I mean, what it really needed was a collar to pull the whole look together, right?
I like the pattern, mostly, and would kill for those shoes–are they valentino?–but c’mon, she’s just screwing with us with those bangs and the PETER PAN COLLAR, right? Also, how does it make her boobs look flat? If it were a halter dress (the kind that crosses at the neck, not behind it) I would be fist-pumping in jubilation.
Ombre hair: detest. I’m sure it will go away soon enough. Rashida’s on the cover of Domino Magazine’s latest special edition, and apparently, the Domino stylist can’t bang wrangle those bangs, either. I think I’d like the dress better if it were not so form fitting. The shoes, no.
The pattern makes her look bigger than she really is….that purple on the hips is so unflattering.
I love her, but she needs to not have these bangs. They never photograph well. I feel for her because I always fight with my own bangs.
^That. Her bangs are sad. They’re a little too long, and she needs to either add more hair to the bangs or take some serious volumising measures.
The bangs always look fine-to-great on Parks & Rec though. I wonder what happens between there and the red carpet.
She looks AMAZING in this Flaunt magazine spread – why can’t she look anything like this on the red carpet? http://flaunt.com/features/123/tongue-tied-and-twisted
I know! Gorgeous. And note: no bangs anywhere in the photoshoot.
Well, sure. That close-up shot of her face is utterly magnificent. I am in a fit of jealousy over her freckles (curse my non-freckled existence!). But, um, hello photoshop on the full body shot. So yeah, can’t exactly expect her to be a whole 16 inches taller with the legs of a giraffe in real life.
WHOA that does not even look like the same person. I would never have known it was her!!
I am not a fan of ombre hair, but I actually don’t hate it on her. bangs need some help though – that is also good inspiration for me to never get bangs – I think we have similar hair.
I like the dress – it’s a little unusual, but I like that she tried something new and interesting. It’s not amazing, but fine.
Her bangs ARE a little tiny pair of pants! Oh my word. I will never ever ever be able to look at her again without thinking of pants-bangs. I only hope the good people of the world would have the decency to tell me if MY bangs ever start looking like items of clothing.
I feel for her. If her bangs are doing / \, mine are doing ) ( . They look kind of like the Chanel logo, but not interlocked. This damp weather is murder on bangs!
that is one hot mess. The hair on her is AWFUL and her tan/fake tan makes her look dirty, and the shoes look cheap instead of cute, so everything together makes her look messy, dirty and if I saw her on the subway, I wouldn’t want to stand downwind of her…
Her father is black. This may explain the “tan”.
lol no girl – I think she’s had some spray tan action. That doesn’t look like a skin colour that occurs in nature.
Pretty sure that’s her skin colour..
Way WAY too many things going on with that dress. Any two or three rather than the actual seven or so would be fine, but this is the sartorial equivalent of clean-the-fridge soup. And looks pretty much how that would taste. Matching the shoes and lipstick might work if that pink stripe on the dress wasn’t right up there near her face as well. Having your hair look like you worked some oil into it, put on a ballcap, and spent the day at the beach is only okay if you actually did it. And should still be shampooed out before leaving the house again.
Yeah, my bangs kept sculpting themselves into drop-crotch harem pants on my forehead to I decided to side-sweep them instead.
While I love the skirt of this dress, the bodice is cutting across her chest in a strange, flattening way, and the gems are fussy and distracting on top of the fun, busy pattern. Topped off with the Peter Pan, there’s just too much going on here.
Adore the pattern on the dress, not liking the cut or fit. What’s up with the collar?? The shoes are a no.
I agree on her bangs, they just don’t behave well. Either grow them out or side-sweep them.
Oh, wow. What I thought were plastic jewels are actually part of the pattern. Crazy busy. I’m liking this less and less the longer I look at it.
Okay, I just realized I missed the most offensive part of this whole ensemble the first time around… SHE IS WEARING AN ANKLE BRACELET!?!
The dress makes her look thick, and she’s as thin as a rail.
Therefore the dress is a huge FAIL, no matter how pretty it is or how interesting the print. Unflattering dresses just shouldn’t exist.
Those bangs are actually giving me mild anxiety (because I know when my bangs get too long I CAN’T STAND IT) and I keep wanting to brush them out of her eyes. The pattern on the dress is interesting and the colors are pretty, but that polo shirt collar needs to be cut off along with her bangs and turned into a twisty halter top like Eliza suggested. I love the funky shoes though. Rashida Jones is so likeable and pretty, but seems to need a little “big sister” guidance. Like maybe from Emily Blunt or Year 2012 Solange.
That dress is hideous and makes her look like she found all 30 pounds that Jeannie Garth lost.
Wow, the bit about her bangs having sculpted themselves into a tiny pair of pants is brilliant.
Ombre hair almost always looks terrible. I vaguely remember seeing it once or twice and it not looking terrible, probably because the person’s hair was long and incredibly healthy and shiny, but I can’t remember specifics, so it was probably a dream. Here, it looks absolutely horrific. Also, she needs to ditch the bangs pronto.
I adore whimsical prints and patterns. Seriously. It’s an addiction. But this, I cannot. Mainly because from the zoomed out photo it looks like a row of eyes down her middle. It is very creepy. I’m also with the crowd on thinking this is super unflattering–it’s an unholy combo of the print and the cut.
This is just an eyesore. The triangle pointing at her private parts plus the stripes add width at her hips. The ever so slightly diagonal seam at her bustline makes the bodice seem too small, while those … distinctive shoes make her feet look quite large. I want so much better for her.
Kit, I doubt Rashida needs fake tan- she is half black.
bangs sculpted into tiny pants cracked me up!
P.S. Love the dress…crazy patterns and all!
I just don’t get it. Does she have an odd figure that she’ tries to camouflage? There is ALWAYS something weird going on around her midriff.
She looks great in the linked photos but I am always skeptical because of the power of photoshop.
The eyes, the eyes! This dress reminds me of an old cover for Stephen King’s Night Shift featuring a bunch of eyes growing out of the palm of a hand and peeking through mummy-like gauze wrappings. All I can see is eyes on the dress even though the close up shows it’s just patterns. It’s creepy. But I don’t hate the dress for that, but mostly because it’s just unflattering. And, yes, why can’t she ever look like that Flaunt shoot? Gorgeous.
I have very similar hair to hers – fine, thin, straight (I do not know if hers is naturally straight, but mine is) and wimpy (I wish, I WISH I did not have wimpy hair…but I do…and it’s a curse). No matter how many times in my life I’ve tried to get bangs, I never learn! Even in the past 5 years I’ve tried more than twice and I KNOW IT ISN’T GOING TO WORK! Yet I still try it! Three weeks ago I did it again, knowing it doesn’t work!
Rashida. Hair like ours cannot do a straight across the forehead bang. We need a side swept bang or just long layers in the front. Otherwise, yes, we get tiny pants on our foreheads. Or in the most severe cases, toothpicks. They will never lay right because we do not have enough hair or enough volume. So let’s just not do this again, ok? We shall band together and let our bangs grow out a bit and relish in the glory of no pants on our foreheads.
Yes! She had toothpicks for her Domino cover (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151143810214176&set=a.10150683656084176.417918.8383249175&type=1&theater). Sorry for the long link! I think she’s gorgeous but needs a different stylist, stat.
Ugh. I hate when my bangs sculpt themselves into little pants
Is this dress one of those early ’90s fad-things that I’m supposed to stare at for a few minutes in order to finally “see” the real image hiding within the pattern?
Hint: It’s a sailboat.
Fug girls and commenters: I love you all! Thank you for brightening up my days and making me secretly giggle at my desk at work, causing coworkers to look over with a “wtf” face and sometimes make me spit out coffee on more than one occasion! (the pants bangs caused that reaction today! Heather, you are brilliant.)
So I showed this to my boyfriend (tiny pants was just too funny to keep to myself) and he immediately was like, “Those are not just any tiny pants. Those pants are Michael Jackson’s pants from the cover of Off the Wall.” And, you guys, he’s kind of right.
Is MJ sending us messages via Rashida’s bangs? If so, what what WHAT is he trying to tell us?
Argh, Rashida, you’re a smart girl, get those Flaunt people to style you.
It’s just awful. I couldn’t vote.