I literally find it impossible to believe that Emily Watson looked at this and thought, “great! This is fantastic. Exactly what I wanted.”
Because while the cut is actually not terrible (although somewhere Stacy London is rolling on the ground, clutching her head in agony over the fact that the bra could have and should have done more to help this), the color is just ridiculous. She looks like she’s wearing an Amish version of the nude bodysuit. I mean, picture this number in, say, an emerald green or a Tiffany blue. Delightful. As it is, she’s quite literally stuck in neutral.
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Why does she always look like she’s about to upchuck? She makes the weirdest faces. I also feel like she would be cute if she could stop dressing in such a matronly manner.
This dress in a color with a better bra would be really nice. Maybe the abundance of nude/flesh color dresses this year will serve as a warning that they are almost universally unflattering. Let’s see color at the SAGS and Oscars people!
This could’ve been so much better! She needs to a) learn that colors are her friend and b) go to La Perla and spend some money! If not, Victoria’s Secret will do! And, there are so many colors to choose from…
And, to think that she got to make out with Ralph Fiennes in “Red Dragon”, GFY Jessica! Sigh…
For years I told my friends that I wanted to start a business as a lingerie consultant to the stars because so many of them apparently have no clue how bras and underwear are supposed to work. Emily’s look is proof that I may need to consider actually whipping up a business plan. My advertising would be this picture with the caption “Don’t let this happen to you”.
This had potential…. different color, better bra…. but no. Fail.
As the UK’s What Not to Wear breast expert, Susannah, would point out – curvy women should not wear high-necked, sleeveless items. It makes the breasts (and I struggle to quote accurately) look like “poorly made clotted cream.”
So yes, the color is one issue, but she could desperately use a capped sleeve so that the broadest area *isn’t* her poorly supported chest. And it’s sad, because Emily has a lot of things going for her, they just don’t happen to include this dress.
heinous.
Holy hell! Even the Mother of the Groom would reject that with prejudice. She looks more like 65 than 45 in this picture.
She’s only 45? No!!! I would have guessed 10 years older. “Band-aid” is not a good color for anyone, and yes, please, get thee to a bra fitting!
THIS. This is why I am outraged whenever anything in a plus-size store has a crew neck. Because many of us fatter ladies have boobs, and a crew-neck/boob combo is a TRAGEDY. Don’t hide your light under a bushel, Emily. LET IT SHINE.
Any color is better than this. I wish they’d just stop it with this “nude” bs.
This could have been really stunning — the dress itself, while simple, looks meticulously tailored and the fabric hangs beautifully. But, she definitely needs a better bra and some color.
What IS it with all the “nude”?! Maybe the stylists are on strike. Or mad at them.
Emerald green with a medium-deep v-neck and a structured bra? Would’ve been gorgeous. I do empathize with her apparent camera-shyness, but that’s only another reason to better arm herself against the wall of photogs.
Oh, hideous. The fabric looks like thick polyester, just look at the seams. This would be a fail in any color or combination of colors. And she should let her hair down. And get some good loaner jewels.
That Stacy London joke made me snortle with laughter at work. Thanks, ladies! I needed that!
Just curious if you have read love in a cold climate by Nancy Mitford and remember the creatone conversation
All the ladies who wore this color or some variant of it get a big fat FAIL.
I think the cut IS actually terrible.
I was going to ask how old she was until I read it in a previous poster’s comment. Because she looks OLD in this – far older than I’m sure she actually is.
You know, when stars wear bad stuff I usually have a “well, you shoulda known better, it was obvious” attitude, or a “well, she tried but it didn’t *quite* work” attitude, but I just feel really bad for her. I t just feels like she didn’t have a clue.
She looks like a giant sticky plaster
Terrible, horrible, ghastly, grotesque.
What is with all these HOLLYWOOD women who seem to be absolutely oblivious about the way they… LOOK? My god, the city is paved with MIRRORS.
Pay. A. Stylist.