Fug or Fab: Kate Beckinsale

Reader response to this dress has been mostly negative — or, I should say, the readers who were galvanized enough to e-mail us about it all hated it.

When I first saw it, it felt pretty and different and a little romantic, and because Beckinsale sometimes comes off a little bit brittle to me, I liked that about it. In fact, what bothered me most was the heavy shoe and the lone black strap hanging out up there, which together ruin the whole floaty, dreamy effect.

Then again, I suspect this is the type of thing you need a friend with you to
wear, so that when you get up after sitting for a long time, she can
fluff your curlicues. And from even MORE steps away, there is a part of me that says,
“Wow, that looks like it was made out of expensive coffee filters
designed by Paris Hilton.”