Kudos to Elizabeth Banks for being in such great shape with a tiny wee baby at home. I know she didn’t herself give birth to the baby, but that doesn’t mean she — like many of us — didn’t want to spend the first few months of the child’s life sleeping and snacking and catching up on everything on her DVR, like, three times over. Which is how many a muffin top is made.
As for her dress, I started out afraid of it. Like, why do you WANT to look like the walking back pocket of somebody’s sensibly flared sailor pants from White House Black Market?
But in full-length, I might have come around on it.
I suspect it’s because her shoes kick ass, and I am a sucker for a well-shod person. I can’t wait until Jessica Simpson shows up around town wearing a dress made out of, like, scissors and Lego, and I decide I love it because she’s also wearing badass Loubs. What can I say? I’m predictable.
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There’s just something cartoon-y or clownish about those big buttons. And Righty’s getting squished a little.
I might like it if it fit better. Seeing her chest oozing out the top made me yell “Go up a size, will ya?” out loud and scare my cat. So no, I vote fug.
Urg, no. Somehow this is both boring and ostentatiously cheesy at the same time.
Bad buttons! Big, gold, cartoony buttons – ewww!
Huh. I have no real problem with the dress, though I don’t love it, but I think the shoes are heavy and stumpifying.
This is one of the few times I actually disagree with the with the majority. I think she looks divine. Fresh, even. I love the white on her and while the buttons are a little big I think the fact that they aren’t that many still keep the dress looking chic. Also, her hair is lovely.
The shoes though – I have to agree with @Miranda: heavy any stumpifying – clunky even.
I like the accessories, but the dress leaves me cold. It seems odd to say it about what is, essentially, just a white dress, but I think there’s too much going on with it. Details are good, but those buttons are just wrong.
Righty looks like she is about to make a run for the border, and the shoes are way too clunky for my taste, i also have an overwhelming urge to undo those buttons at the shoulder, just to see what happens…
It’s pretty ridiculous, yes, but she’s selling the hell out of it, and it’s working.
She looks pretty, and the dress reminds of something Christie Brinkley circa “National Lampoon’s Vacation” would wear. She’s like an easy, breezy, beautiful cover girl, but she needs to accessorize with a Ferrari to make it just perfect.
Hard to make out what’s going on with all those mummy-like fabric pieces in the bodice, and together with the oversize pocket flaps and the shoulder that looks like a badly fastened diaper, it all just seems incoherent.
I effing love this. I mostly love it because I would totally wear it and be SO HAPPY to be doing so. It needs to be let out a little up top due to the squashing effect, but it’s fantastic.
I even love the shoes. This love may have something to do with my love for EBanks herself, but whatever. Killer dress.
It’s not as good as her “by mennen.”
I don’t care for this. The buttons cheapen it. I LOVE the shoes, but don’t think they go with this dress. And it’s too tight in the right armpit/boob area.
But for once, I like her hair.
Though I am a fervent acolyte of The Almighty Pockets in my everyday wear, (because you can put your stuff there and not leave it on the desk when you go home) they have no business anywhere near women’s formal-wear. It’s just wrong. I don’t even care that those are clearly not functional. Also, the skirt is split way too high. Subtlety: Look In To It.
Sandra, I completely agree on the slit. Put it away.
Huh. I actually think it looks really crisp and fresh. She pulls it off.
This does remind me that I need some new sailor pants.
Ugh, no. Her boob looks wonky and smushed. I don’t like the buttons and I really don’t like the shoes with this dress, love them on their own tho
I dunno, I think it just looks cheap…
I am reminded of toddlers’ overalls.
I like the idea of the dress, but not the execution. (I like sailor pants) I wish the dress weren’t tilted and that all the details were just a little bit smaller.
I don’t have a problem with the pocket. I just don’t know why you want to meet the Prince of Wales with your Princess hanging out, if you know what I mean.
Looks like that time Marge Simpson had to rework her Chanel suit 20 gajillion times.
Blech, no. The buttons look cheap and the shoes are too clunky and don’t go with the dress. I’d also like to close the slit about two inches (and I like a leg slit, but I think that’s too high).
I like it fine, but it is not balanced. The pockets and (too-long) slit need to be on the opposite side from the shoulder treatment. The eye follows the flow of the details and mine feels like it went on a detour down the wrong hip and leg. I’d get rid of the slit, too. The other pocket/button is enough without her thigh hanging out.
She looks like she’s trying to be January Jones. Versace just does not work for everyone, especially every blond. It looks trashy on Elizabeth.
I was going to say, “Very Lauren Tewes/Julie McCoy,” but I think it’s more something Jill Whelan/Vicki Stubing would wear as an adult.
I would like it quite a bit if the button flap on the shoulder was buttoned down, instead of sticking straight up, and the slit wasn’t so high, and the shoes went with the dress better, and….never mind.
I like both the shoes and the dress, but not together. Now that I look at it again she does look like the world’s sexiest cruise director though.
Bad Pockets! Weird Buttons! Strange One Soulder Strap! Good Shoes!
Has anyone actually seen Elizabeth Banks and Chelsea Handler in the same place/same time? I’m convinced they’re the same person…a blonde Hollywood Jekyl & Hyde.
Shoes, hair, makeup: good.
Weird pockety-huge gold buttony-slit almost up to the lady parts: bad.
Painful looking boob ooze: NO. JUST NO.
Looks great for margaritas by the pool. And those shoes may kick ass, but they also hop clod.
@Kati Irons: I know!!! The look like twins, but I’ve seen them together on “Chelsea Lately” while Chelsea was interviewing Elizabeth! At first glance, I never know which one it is… I always have to do a double take!
I think I like the dress, and I do think the shoes are fabulous but I don’t think that they’re the shoes for this dress. I mean she went all matchy matchy gold with all her other accessories and then glittery silver shoes? It looks a bit off…
I completely agree with everyone who is saying the shoes are clunky. They’re gorg, but I’m not buying them with this dress… I think I might like the dress better with only one pocket, perhaps keep the lower one and ditch the one up top.
This is a serious WTF for me. I HATE IT. I’ve never hated something so simple so much. The worst part is how the shoulder sticks up. What the hell is that? Then how it wrinkles. A wrinkly evening gown is just the worst. They should be made of fabric that doesn’t wrinkle. Come on. Just. Yuck.
Never mind the pockets, what it’s doing to the right side of her chest/bosom is criminal.