Oscar Fab or Fug Carpet/Post-Party: Taraji P. Henson

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Feb 25, 2009 By Jessica AT 11:34 am

Regardless of how I feel about her gowns, I have to confess that I freaking love Taraji P. Henson. First of all, her haircut is very cute, and I am easy wooed by good hair. (Just ask Patrick Dempsey.)  Plus, she seems so funny and charming any time she’s interviewed. Also, according to Wikipedia, during college, “she worked two jobs–in the morning as a secretary at the Pentagon and in the night as a singing and dancing waitress on a dinner cruise ship,” and if that’s not the set-up for a charming sitcom, I don’t know what is. But let’s talk about the gowns, anyway. Here’s Taraji’s Oscar dress:

Like half the stuff from Oscar night, I was unsure at the time and now I have mellowed and kind of dig it. It DOES kind of look like Formal Wear For Mummies, but I covet her necklace and I think she might be pulling it off.

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Like so many Oscar-going ladies, Taraji changed for the parties. This thing is getting long, so click through for the rest.

This one, I have not mellowed on. Like, at all. To me, you change for the parties if you don’t want to deal with a giant princess dress while you’re trying to do the lambada with Tom Cruise while juggling a martini and meat on a stick. But this, while allowing for more mobility in case you need to, like, kick Ryan Seacrest in the shins or something, has a train, which means that people would be stepping on you all evening. And basically, to me it looks like kind of a poor man’s version of her earlier dress. While I like the idea that they’re cut from the same cloth — pardon the pun — I would have just stuck with Dress Number One all evening.

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