I am incredibly relieved to have an excuse to talk about this:
The film itself may be great, but the marketing makes it feel like the faux rom-com inserted into an actual rom-com — like if Drew Barrymore were in a film in which she played a movie star looking for love in 1997, this would be the fake movie glimpsed within that movie. Everything about it just seems so GENERIC. I also keep thinking it’s the sequel to Fever Pitch — in which the Jimmy Fallon character goes on the road with the Sox — but that’s just because Justin Long looks like Jimmy if you close one eye.
However, it’s getting Drew out of the house to promote it, and that’s never a bad thing. She just wore this in London:
[Photo: Splash News]
When I first saw this dress, I was like, ‘YIKES,” and I had all these court jester/joker/mime/juggler jokes lined up, but now that I’ve really taken a look at it, I quite like it. Never let it be said that I am not fickle and/or willing to change my mind on a dime.
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Definitely feeling the dress and accessories. It’s a sharp look.
But what’s up with the ratty hair? I have nothing against long hair (fighting my inner Mom on this one), and I adore Drew, but this is not flattering.
A skooch more “styling” would have finished off the whole shootin’ match and made it 100%.
Its as if she found the animated disneys queen of hearts laundry day attire.
I’m with Rayna on this. I initially had trouble even looking at the dress long enough to form an opinion because I was stuck on “Girl, brush your hair already”.
I like the juxtaposition of casual hair & chunky ring with the ladylike dress. It’s very Drew. Her poor toes look squished in those shoes, though.
I don’t like any of it — dress, shoes, or styling. Fail.
I actually like the messy hair otherwise it might look a little like some middle aged lady in her bank uniform so it edges it up a little. Go the messy hair…
Let’s be honest, this is a step up from her recent choices.
You can’t belt everything.
I am also so relieved to have an opportunity to talk about Going the Distance. So, this is a movie about… a long distance relationship? That’s the plot?
I think the belt keeps it away from jester territory. But I wish she wore a different one. That one looks like it’s meant for mom jeans or dress slacks.
I’m torn over her hair situation. It’s cute, but it kinda makes her look like Mary Kate Olson.
Krista is right, this is a HUGE step up from her recent choices. That being said, her hair is a mess.
Is she playing Harley Quinn in the next Batman movie??
NO. Just no. Complete do over including the hair.
It is gimmicky and not attractive.
What is so strange about Drew is that she looks so beautiful in those make up ads, but left to her own devices, tends toward ratty hair and odd clothing. She had a lot to work with, but does not seem to want to make much of an effort to look her best.
I kind of love it. That dress is sooo 80s — I wonder if it’s actual “vintage”? (I have trouble applying the word vintage to the decade of my teens)
I had the same thought as Trish. Is this vintage? Imagine this outfit on one of Ferris Bueller’s teachers, but with a permed mullet…. Yup, very ’80s. Do we really want to revisit that fashion?
For some reason, “Cruella Deville” popped into my head when I saw that pic.
I think my Mom wore that dress for my brother’s Jr. High School Prom in 1986! So, no!
I agree with Trish, I am hoping it’s actually vintage, too. I think she’s pulling it off from the angle we’re seeing and I think her hair and accessories are bringing it into this century.
Poison Ivy flashbacks anyone..? She’s swiped her invalid stepmonster Cheryl Ladd’s 80s Knotts Landing Val outfit post offing her & jumping out the window. Goodbye, cruel world!
OH MY GOD. If you remove the accessories that is my halloween costume from 1993 – complete with the ratty hair. And yes, I was a jester.
She IS kind of rocking it, though..
@ sajorina – your mom went to your brother’s prom? lol
I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS OUTFIT!!!! Sorry to yell, I’m having a very bad day…
Actually, I feel better now, my outfit is cuter than Drew’s.
I would like to see the dress a little more fitted. The way it looks now she NEEDS the belt just to give her a waist. If the dress was better tailored she wouldn’t even need it, and if she had it, it wouldn’t look like it’s confining the extra yard of cloth.
Also, girl, brush your hair! I have long hair too, but I manage to brush it every morning. You don’t even need to put it up (although it would look cute in a messy up-do). I bet I could find 20 people willing to brush your hair for free, just in my office! If you don’t want to do it, find someone who will!
Remember, this is Drew. We should just be happy she didn’t wear a red shoe on her left foot.
An overwhelming YES as long as the back of this dress is not solid black (which the great number of these dresses that I’m seeing – and yes, they are back in stores, welcome to the nightmare of your childhood) are.
Girlfriend just needs a good deep-conditioning treatment and a classic chignon and she’s good to go. Oh wait, she has to take that….THING off from around her neck as well. Then she’ll be good to go.
HOORAY! for the “Poison Ivy” reference above–although I thought Cheryl Ladd was Sara Gilbert’s mom in that movie?!?
Anyway, typical hippie-dippie Drew hair here. She always looks totally STONED to me, which would explain this dress.
another vote for c: bad hair.
PS: I loved that last dress, the swirlysparkly one from a week or so ago. I can’t even believe that was almost a fug or fab, because it was so awesomely fab. This is more fa…meh.
Is it just me, or does the profile shot of Drew in the ad for the movie bear a strong resemblance to Celine Dion?
Don’t know if you guys have seen this yet, but it kinda blew my mind. Taylor Momsen. Sigh.
http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2010/08/18/taylor-momsen-trashes-rihannas-pop-star-style/
Hate the belt, the dress is just okay.
I also immediately thought it looked like Cruella Deville- a kinder, younger, Cruella, definitely not to her puppy skinning days, but getting there…
I feel like the dress with those accessories looks matronly. There’s potential there, but she’s not pulling it off. I’d change the shoes out for either a bigger peep toe or a pump; loose the leather/turd looking chunky necklace; do a belt whose buckle matches the other necklace better and pop on some cute funky earrings.
Hair down is fine, but it’s looking messy – I think she needs a cut.
@ Tee Cee — dude, Sarah Gilbert’s bedridden mom WAS Cheryl Ladd in Poison Ivy..the family “adopted” troubled teen Drew who wasted no time jumping new foster dad Tom Skerritt (ew) atop the family car and in the formal dining room (ew!!).
You’re welcome, America, rent it if you haven’t seen it..it’s painfully awesome, borderline hypnotic.
I could have used a [ ] Meh box in the fug or fab. Also, for those who think the dress might be vintage, I’m pretty sure I used to own it.
This comment is simply because I relish the irony. A couple days ago I posted,a first after years of lurking, on a few men’s things, only to have most of you give that person a pass because “he is so cute”. The normal reaction was to wait for a fugly situation where the shoe was on the other foot, however I passed.
This presents just the opposite. Wonderful dress, but terrible vessel. I agree it is a bit matronly, yet could be pulled off sexy with the right body. The wearer needs higher, squarer shoulders to pull off the boxy new-wave look the dress was inspired for. On the other hand this could be a knock on the designer for putting in shoulder-pads (or Drew’s for taking them out…so it goes around…)
The problem here, and most of you are only hedging around it, Drew is 1. not as attractive as generally thought 2. Too patchouli to pull off something so posh. The body does not work. The hair does not work, the sense of style does not work. The dress, evocative of the new-wave, is a bit avant-guard, something in conflict with the wildflower hair of Drew. Add to that the waif-ish makeup, and no…no…honey no…you’re just not that good looking to pull this off.
Thank you @Curious. The profile pic of Drew on the poster has been driving me crazy. I knew it didn’t look like her but now I know it looks like Celine Dion. My heart will go on.
When did outfits from the 1980′s become “vintage”??!!
Dear gawd, helps us all when Hammer pants are referred to as “vintage” or a “classic”.
That dress was the transition outfit she wore as she changed from Cinderella to Princess for the movie “Ever After”. The scene was unfortunately snipped off.
She looks cute. The hair and lips make the whole thing work. With prissy/neat hair, I would be put in mind of a lady politician from Texas. Probably Republican.
This needs to be an unfug it up. I don’t really like it, but I think I could. My first steps toward unfugging would include removing the macrame necklace and investigating whether those are hair extensions. If they are, I shall be removing those as well.
NO GOD NO.
I wore a black & red Minnie Mouse jumper religiously in the ’80s, when I was wee enough to be blissfully unaware of the eye sore I presented. Photographic evidence exists.
Anyway, the moral of the story is that black and red should be kept apart by all means possible.
What Harleen Quinzel wears for a sedate evening out.
I like it.
Yes on everything except the rope thingy around her neck. It’s ugly.
drew can do what she likes.
I actually kind of like the dress, and I love the shoes. At least her hair isn’t black from the ears down.
This specific instance of this look is good, but I hope no one takes any kind of inspiration from it, because it’s way too soon for those clothes to come back. I’m not going to necessarily support the hair, but as a curly haired lass who actually wears it curled, I know it can be difficult to style and keep styled correctly. Brushing for me is a NEVER if I don’t want my hair to be a frizzball. Plus I think it is only the fact that her hair is not teased to an inch of it’s life that keeps this from being too too outre. I guess I’m saying I get the hair, I’m not mad at it, but it could have looked better.
Apart from the bike chain around her neck I love this outfit.
It’s totally 80s. I wore that to my first amusing little $12K/year secretarial job and then hit TGIWhatever for happy hour IN THIS EXACT OUTFIT. It works now because the hair and shoulder pads aren’t atomic. I like merely for nostalgia. Everybody WANG CHUNG TONIGHT!
Never mind the colorblocked dress, I’m just endlessly disturbed by the random hand on the back of the guys neck. It is clearly not connected to Drew’s right arm, which is going around his waist. Photoshop FAIL!
Comb that rat’s nest and get a trim. The dress and belt are cool in theory, but poor in execution. Drew needs a more fitted cut. Her toes seem a tad crowded, too, using the peep toe as an escape hatch. And is her lipstick pink?
THANK YOU FOR THE MENTION OF THAT HAND! Oh my GOD, I live in L.A. and drive down Overland Blvd. every DAY and there are two huge-o billboards and that hand (so innocent small) looks totally weird. Like there is another person hiding in his jacket, one of those conjoined twins or something, and it bugs me. Rebecca, yes, Photoshop FAIL.
Shouldn’t there be an editing tool in photoshop that shows you what the ghost limb looks like behind the new overlayer of Justin Long? Because that tool, whatever it is called, X-RAY LIMB VISION, perhaps, would show that an arm would need two elbows at least to have Drew’s hand in that position.
And the outfit is blah and Drew IS TOTALLY DARLING AND CUTE and I am glad she’s not dressing like a Rachel Zoe wannnabe, but sometimes I wish that Rachel Zoe dressed her for an event or two because I think Drew could pull off some serious haute couture… and make it FRESH and good and not just the domain of scary little wizened people.
I wish she wore this every once in awhile: http://tinyurl.com/25h7o4b Chanel! Ostrich feathers! HELLO! YOU HAD ME AT OSTRICH!
drew is killing it lately! i have never been and never will be a fan of her movies but she looks grrreat. other actresses would have paired this dress with stiff ass hair and gobs of makeup but lady drew knows to take starch out of the look and go soft and easy. and i say go drew!
I hate to tell you this but I made this dress in 1982, when I went to El Dorado High in Orange County, Ca. It was color blocked and was electric blue, teal, and hot pink. I wore patterned tights with it. Clearly, it ended up in a thrift store and some fashionista snapped it up, remade it, and sold it to Drew. I do wish she were wearing her hair differently, but I’m glad my dress went to good use. (glad you took the shoulder pads out, too)
QUite beautiful!!!
There’s something very Jenna Maroney about that look:
Have you thought about starring in a film that isn’t a rom-com?
“Oh no Tracy. That’s just for the non-specials.”
She looks tired!
I’m such a Drew fan; I don’t care who knows it. I love that girl. She was my first favorite actress and I’m always a little disappointed when she shows up looking crazy.
This is passable. She just looks so tired.
My elementary school principal had this dress in different colors, then completed the effect by wearing stockings in the colors of the dress – one on each leg. This photo just sent me into flashbacks and not in a good way. I can’t forgive that.
@Ali – Thirty years ago, friend. Remember IN the eighties when a little fifties beaded sweater or party dress was vintage? Yes indeedy. We are OOOOOOOLD.
@Dramman – That’s a bit unfair. Not “tall, thin and angular” enough, maybe, but that isn’t the only definition of “good-looking.” I agree that Linda Evangelista might pull it off more successfully, although that might be (see above) an unfortunate instance of going back to drink from the same river.
She’s DREW. She can do no wrong.
Okay, she can do a whole lotta wrong, but she’s still adorable.
Is Drew managing the Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines: Colorblock Comeback Tour?
Kind of liking the dress. HATE the hair. But mostly love that you’ve clearly articulated my issues with this movie. It has been nagging at me every time I see an ad and I haven’t been able to put my finger on it.
My hair looked like that last week, which is why I told my hairdresser, “Go nuts. Take off at least 6 inches, it feels like straw.”
Old. Tired. Wrinkled. Middle-aged. Ew.
She looks better in her Maybelline ads.
I am glad that I am not the only one who didn’t recognize her from that profile picture on the movie poster – I honestly saw this poster a couple days ago and thought ‘oh is that Sarah Jessica Parker in a non-Sex in the City movie?’ They really need to stop photoshoping everyone so they all look alike.
Meh. Fail. It looks very 80s to me, like something I would have worn in middle school while thinking I was hot s*^t. And her feet look like they’re being tortured in those shoes.
Looks like it was inspired by the jokers sidekick Harley Quinn.
I think she looks gorgeous
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