Insert the usual about how Cameron Diaz’s legs are impressive, yes, and we too would be tempted to show them off to all comers at every turn, etc. Seriously, we all got the memo. At this point I feel like I was strapped down while someone forcibly tattooed it onto my arm.
And formal shorts are one thing, but a romper? I’m sure she calls it a Summer Jumpsuit, but I call it Stuff That’s Only Cute Before You’re Old Enough To Vote, And EVEN THEN The Jury Is Out. I respect that she is not wearing a genital-flashing skirt, but basically, I feel like this is just sort of a crotch-saver. It’s, “If I could wear a skirt this short, I would, but I can’t without inadvertently offering the world free parking in my g-spot, so I’ll just go ahead and make it shorts and VOILA, my problem is solved.” Except it’s not, because then you’re in a ROMPER. Which anagrams to RE-PROM. And do that many people want to relive those days? I think not.
On the other end of the spectrum, we have wee Elle Fanning, who is thirteen.
If you are going to wear a romper in Hollywood, this is probably the age at which to do it. Because you’re wee, and we just want to hug you and beg you not to go out for drinks with anyone on a Disney show until you are at least twenty-four, and explain the importance of maintaining your brain cells. And, you know, you’re still ROMPING, in that very innocent way that doesn’t involve birth control or a mother’s tears. I do wish Elle had not chosen some kind of pantaloon-bloomer-romper — a ROMPALOON, mayhap — and the competing florals are making me dizzy. She looks kind of like a pirate’s daughter who runs the shipboard florist. But that’s a whole separate issue. The point is, get rompaloonacy out of your system now, kid, so you won’t ever be tempted to do it again. I mean:
Even Jason Segel appears to be thinking, “Wow, her crotch seam goes up to eleven.”
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“rompaloonacy” — BWAH HA HAH!
Cameron really looks like Ellen Barkin to me here.
i think i love fanning’s shoes.
Rompers are an abomination. On anyone.
I must admit that I am on the romper team and own one myself, but then again – I like jumsuits too (though I am not a fan of camel toe on anything). Only thing… so really annoying when you have to pee cause you do have to basically strip naked in the toilet. Not too practical when having beer in the park! You really have to think about those things (and next time you consider wearing your cute new romper/jiumsuit… you’re welcome)
I hate rompers, but honestly, I think Cameron is pulling that off. She looks fantastic. I also love her shoes.
Can we put Cam’s romper on the wee Fanning (I really do think it would be cute on her and all those flowers are giving me a headache) and help Cam find some grown-up clothes?
Pulitzer for coining the phrase “rompaloon”
While I like Elle’s look overall, including the mismatch florals, the puffy shorts…I can’t get behind them at any age. While I hate rompers in general, I have no issues with young girls wearing them. But about the age you are too old to play with Barbies, you need to put the rompers away.
Cameron almost looks like she’s pulling it off in that first photo, but in the second, with Jason Segal? Not so much.
In fact, she’s looking less like Ellen Barkin (thanks, Amber!) and more like Cloris Leachman in that one. Which means she’s veering dangerously close to “mutton dressed as lamb.”
I actually, like Steph, feel that Cameron is pulling it off… And I honestly think she’s one of the very, VERY few who could.
Cam pulling it off??? My vajayjay hurts just looking at that awful cameltoe in the last shot.
What Karen said. A romper on an adult is not good, but in the first pic Cam looks like she’s sort of working it. That second picture makes it clear that the entire look is not flattering at all. There are far better ways for her to show off her gams.
Cameron, why didn’t you fix Jason Segel’s shirt?
Eh. I’m not seeing it. Mostly hype, I think.
There are better ways of showing off legs than rompersuits, Elle’s would look lovely as a little sundress, I am not totally hating her romper, it seems age appropriate and fine to me.
Fanning (wow, another one!) can almost pull off the romper, because her is four, and her is waiting for Mommy to pick her up at day care.
But her is not getting a treat today, because those are Mommy’s shoes. Baby can’t wear heels AND a diaper, can she? NO.
Cam. CAM. We get it. You’re armed (legged?). Still, all these years after “Charlie’s Angels”. It’s time to take a good look around, honey. Who do you think you’re fighting?
A four-year-old? IN A DIAPER??
I like Elle’s look. Very age appropriate and cute on her! Cam, not so much.
No one, not even these two delightful (or so they seem) ladies can make me like rompers. Or jumpsuits. Or formal shorts.
Cammie D has a bad case of DRESS YOUR AGE WOMAN
Wow, I had no idea rompers were such a divisive article of clothing! I, for one, absolutely love them. But I don’t love either of those :-/
Can we change the romper age from your “not old enough to vote” to 13 and under?
Also, that romper does Cameron Diaz no favors in the second picture, she actually looks WIDE. We all know she is not.
Ugh, I typed “your” and that is what I meant, but it will read as “you’re”. Shame on me! Rest assured, I know the difference!
Cameron, you are not an ingenue. Seriously, dress your age. It’s embarrassing.
Anne B, you’re killing me here………! I just spit water on my keyboard.
ROMPALOON! hahaha
I’m not one to talk, because when I was 13 in 1987, I wore a white strapless bloomer romper (rompaloons) with huge magenta hearts all over it and thought I was FABULOUS. Still, I’m okay with both of these, and even like Cameron’s more than Elle’s.
Rompers helped me learn NOT TO FORGET THE UNDERPANTS when I was learning to dress myself. (crotchwedgieshudder)
I am not an advocate of plastic surgery, but Cameron either needs to have some, or stop having so much, I’m not sure which.
I hate rompers and jumpsuits without exception (so as not to be totally rigid, I will say that I haven’t seen any YET that have changed my stance). They look silly, and aside from that, I don’t see the point. Just wear shorts and a shirt! Make them the same color if you want that uniform look! They’re not even convenient – as someone said, they require the wearer to practically take them all the way off when using the toilet. I also hate puffy shorts; I feel like they make the thigh look bigger. So, although Elle is 13, I still hate it.
I agree with Karen and LoriK that Cameron is almost pulling it off in the first shot, but the second one is terrible. And again, she could have worn a minidress and had no problem – still showed off the legs but wouldn’t have the awful foot-long crotch she has going on.
Rompaloon, rompaloonacy, inspired!
Absolutely NO to the romper, unless you are learning to walk. And Cam looks TERRIBLE in that lost photo.
I like Cameron’s look; I am not at all bothered by it, but I think I would be if it was a minidress and not a romper!
Elle looks cute and I love her wedges, but something about her romper is not sitting well with me… it may be the fabric pattern, the thin belt or the fact that it IS a rompaloon, I don’t know!
I do not understand why either of these women, Cameron especially, does not have at least one second thought when they are getting dressed for the red carpet. In what is essentially a onesie.
I like me a romper…for a lazy weekend. For a red carpet, and ESPECIALLY when you have been of legal drinking age for decades, romper not okay. Is depressing, especially up close (where you can see that she is closer to middle-aged than teenaged). Doesn’t she do this every year at the MTV awards though? Isn’t it always too short and too tight, and I’m slightly embarrassed for her?
I think old Cam is
1. a tad long in the tooth for this ugly thing she’s wearing.
2. Getting rather desparate in her old age ( 40 ish is old in Hollywood)
3. starting to look a bit saggy in the thigh department.
4. Needs to make a decent movie.
Ha ha… eleven
Children romp, so they’re allowed to wear rompers. Cameron Diaz is not allowed to wear a romper.
On the mid-20s set, the romper is everywhere where I live: the foetid bowels of the Earth. So I am so pleased to see it also represented by a late-30s Hollywood starlet. Oh how it digs up into the crotch, reminding her of her primordial essence at all times, which I’m sure is very necessary. I can’t even stomach the Little House on the Prairie version on the 13-year old OC princess.
All I really want to do though is to object: Much like Boobs Legsly, Diaz’s legs are just fine, but not great. These ladies have the legs of thin women over 5’8″. Is that a big achievement? Visit the Netherlands sometime and get some perspective. Tell me: Where are the calves on Diaz? Are they those skinny blahbs that slump down into feet? There’s no shape. There’s no there there. There’s nothing to be ashamed of, but what Diaz has to set her apart is a face. Not so much the legs; they don’t justify the romper.
I was about to type “omg, no!” and then I remembered I owned one of these about ten years ago. It was given to me by a friend at a clothing swap. It was black, sleeveless, and had a deep right-over-left v-neck, and it was cute for what it was, but the shorts weren’t TOO short and it didn’t look at all childish. But I would never have worn it to anything fancier than a picnic or garden party.
In general, I think rompers should be reserved for the kindergarten and under set. Elle looks more like she’s on a modeling gig than like she’s wearing an outfit she got to choose. Cam looks like she’d rather be surfing. I don’t understand why Jason Segel is wearing velvet in summer.
I nearly said that I don’t mind what CD has on but close up, she’s far too old for it. EF is only 13 but that fabric is granny fabric.
Cameron’s romper is NOT flattering. Not even a little bit. Her legs, as always, are fine, and I am sure if mine looked like that, I would wear shorts all the time. NOT a romper. Her romper does make her look wide and for heaven’s sake, she’s not wide! Ugh.
As for Elle, not a fan of hers, either, but at least she has the excuse of being young. Cameron does not.
Yikes. First photo of CD: not terrible, but it’s still a romper.
Second photo of CD: ACK! That thing makes her look completely waist-less, and it’s smooshing her boobs to the point it appears her stomach sticks out further! Eeeeeeek! And the crotch seam goes all the way up to the neckline. No. NO. NOOOOOO!
I think I would love Elle’s romper if:
1) It didn’t have that pajama-esque collar.
2) It wasn’t a romper.
Cameron…well, let’s just say she could use a new look.
I kinda dig rompers and wish I could pull them off, but the concensus amoungst friends is they are NEVER a good idea unless it’s a cover-up for the pool/beach and even then you’re better off picking something else. Quel drag.
PS- Diaz is looking a bit like Ellen Barkin, though I think Barkin looks better!
Elle Fanning looks like a toddler who gotten taken to daycare in her jammies because she was too sleepy to be dressed. Do those shoes actually match her rompaloons? ICCCCCCCCKKKKK!!
I love the romper. I think it totally looks classy on her and age appropriate! I have one already and will be purchasing more.