Fug the Show: Jane By Design, episode 4

Jan 27, 2012 By Heather AT 9:00 am
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Montage! This brings our Poor Little Stitch Girl Costume Count to a whopping 39 (and our Poor Little Stitch Girl In Fancy Clothes Montage Count to two). That’s a lot of fashion ground to cover in just four episodes. Well done, show.

Plotwise: The company has to impress the editor in chief of Modern Empress magazine in Japan. Naturally, Andie is in London, so this means Jane and her British cohort at work have to do the wooing, and of course, he is all smarm and she is all gawky charm and she ends up saving the day like five times — including by making the woman go eat a diner hamburger — and getting the company’s dress on the magazine’s cover. Because I’m SO SURE that NOBODY in the company’s top  management tier would rush back to NYC to wine and dine the Anna Wintour of Japan, if she’s so coveted. Come on. London to New York is not that bad a flight, AND the time change works in your favor. Jane’s Deadbeat Brother spends a bunch of time reflecting on high school, popularity, and life, and then dispenses lots of advice to Blane and Duckie and even Jane. See, Jane is really upset that Duckie has been dating her nemesis Lulu, and decides their entire friendship is founded on LIES, DIRTY LIES, because she’s not melodramatic at all. Eventually she backs down and admits she misses him and needs him. Blane, meanwhile, is under Jock Pressure or something boring like that, so while he’s at the batting cage swinging his feelings, Jane shows up to swing HER feelings — on her brother’s advice — he asks why she ditched him at the dance, and she half tells him (which, was that so hard? She said it was something for her internship — couldn’t she have said, on the night, “Hey, I have to do double duty tonight so I’ll be coming and going, but wait for me”?), and they decide to have sex sometime — I mean, “go for coffee.”

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  1. 9:37 am on 01/27/12
    Chasmosaur

    I don’t watch this show, but I do read your Fug the Show pieces about it.

    All I can think whenever I read these is that no legitimate fashion house has signed on. Because even when designers make clothes that are fugly, there’s a certain style to the ugliness. (Like how the GFY masses have been able to pick out a Marchesa these days.)

    These clothes mostly just look heinous. There’s the odd outfit or two, but I feel like they’re shopping wherever it’s hot for teens to shop right now and just pulling the most expensive stuff off the racks, hoping it can help sell it.

  2. 9:46 am on 01/27/12
    Heather

    The credits say that “select fashion has been provided by” Daniel Vosovic (of Project Runway fame).

  3. 10:33 am on 01/27/12
    cmc

    I’m sorry, but I’m obsessed with this show and sweet little Jane. She is so damn likeable that I pretty much suspend my disbelief the entire time. “Oh, tiny Japan fashion lady was *just like you* and wishes she could relax with a burger? OKAY.” I totally get why Jane has that everybody-loves-her effect in the office though because she totally has that on screen.

    Also, I’m getting a really Sex in the City vibe from the voiceover bits. It’s all questions, which I found incredibly annoying in SITC and is equally annoying now.

  4. 11:08 am on 01/27/12
    M.Amanda

    The hair. Yes, she should have done something with it. That was my first thought when I saw her walk into the restaurant. But then, she always seems to forget her hair, doesn’t she? Not that it isn’t pretty, but you’d think someone who was supposed to be so creative with clothes and accessories would not wear it the EXACT SAME WAY EVERY SINGLE DAY, even for special occasions.

  5. 11:38 am on 01/27/12
    vandalfan

    Janes’ Deadbeat Brother would be a good name for a band.

  6. 2:49 pm on 01/27/12
    Karen

    Jane’s Deadbeat Brother is, like, the poor man’s Paul Rudd.

  7. 3:15 pm on 01/27/12
    Sajorina

    I tried watching this show, but after 15 minutes, I just couldn’t do it anymore!

  8. 1:03 pm on 01/28/12
    Jennifer E.

    i love that you dissect this show for us. i just don’t have time to follow TV shows these days, and this is one i would have WISHED i could. but instead, i follow the fug girls. <3