I’m serious. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS? WHO WEARS A CHOKER WITH A HALTER TOP?
WHO DOES THAT? WHO? This looks like a medically-required accessory, as if — like one of y’all said to us on Twitter — this choker, this GIANT HIDEOUS CHOKER, is literally holding her head on her body. I just don’t get it. Wearing a choker with a halter top is like wearing a beret on top of your bowler hat. A bolo tie on top of your actual tie. Gloves with your arm-warmers. It is (a) superfluous and (b) really f’ing confusing. In what universe did a stylist look at this and say, “you need to look more like you’re holding your face on with mesh”? NONE OF THEM.
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I think it looks kinda cool.
Agreed. It’s not my favorite look of the night, but it’s by no means a travesty and I give her points for looking different than 90% of everyone else. Seriously, the dresses are all starting to look like they came off the cookie cutter express. I’m glad someone took a high fashion risk.
Frankly, I think that dress makes her boobs look like they’re creating calluses on her hipbones. Saggy, baggy, shapeless, colorless…girl, you have plenty of that in your future. You don’t need to try it on now.
I think she put the dress on, realised it looked REALLY drab and dull and slapped the choker on in a last ditch attempt to zhuzh it up a bit.
I can’t stand the choker- BUT- I think the rest of her looks great. I get that the choker is pretty much the only thing you see and thus negates any redeeming aspect of the rest of her outfit, but couldn’t this be an Unfug It Up? I mean, all we’d have to do is rip that baby off and stick some pretty emerald earrings on her or whatever.
I’m with you. Other than the choker – which isn’t even a good choker – she looks better than in many of her past outings. Swapped out for a pair of great chandeliers or something, and this would have been very nice.
This reminds me of Heidi Klum’s dress, the simple one she dressed up with the turquoise necklace. Something like that could work here. Or even just a really dramatic red lip.
Agreed! Remove the choker and we have a winner…. for her.
I think she’s pulling it off. The choker addition seems very “Wiig” to me, for some reason.
It looks like she ran out of time to get her hair done…
:/
For a minute there, I thought people were actually defending the choker.
I’m convinced she wore this dress backwards for the Golden Globes. She needs to introduce some color into her life. And the choker is ridiculous.
I didn’t watch the SAGs or the red carpet for them (shame on me!); but I saw a picture of her on another site that was taken from the side and she was bending oddlyl and laughing and I thought “Kristen looks great!”. True story.
And then I saw this and now I’m sad.
A girl I know made all her b-maids wear chokers with very high neck backless dresses. You couldn’t see the chokers, and what you could see…looked like very expensive Vampire Protection Devices. I wonder if Wiig was at this wedding and went “OOOH AWESOME IDEA”
Maybe she had hickeys she needed to cover up…?
I agree that if youy swap the choker for better jewelry this would be a fab. The dress is very Wiig, without being too casual as she sometimes tends to go.
The hickey cover-up is an interesting theory. I’ll admit to using a choker for that very reason in high school in the early 90′s.
I think that this could have been better if it had COLOR! Why is she so against color all of a sudden. Her Globes dress was neutral too. Color, gorgeous earrings and a cocktail ring. Done!
Possibility: She always seems to sabotage herself slightly at these events—Might she be afraid she’ll damage her comedy credentials if she lets her gorgeousness shine forth? I think her hair is always less than flattering, for example.
I love the dress, really love it. I think, aside from the choker, she looks terrific!
The dress needs something, I’m not sure I’d know exactly what kind of jewelry to wear? What is considered proper for a halter?
she must be covering a hickey.
You’re crazy, this is fantastic! I’ve never seen her look this cool. I like the choker with the halter neck- it’s unconventional and risky. It’s not perfect, but I still think she looks awesome!
I like it too. She looks pretty but a bit edgy – pretty much the opposite of Kaley Cuoco dressed as Cinderella.
Such a good call! Wiig, much like a lot of us, does NOT want to look like a pretty princess.
Blah.
OH come on! Who HASN’T had to cover a hickey using a choker. GEEEZE YOU GUYS!
LOL @ Stefanie. I don’t mind the choker so much, but I don’t know the rules about choker and halter tops together. I am not liking how the pleats falling at the waist make it seem as if there is a drawstring there with which she could tighten/or lossen the fit. It makes an otherwise lovely dress look like sweatpeants at the waist.
Yeah, I’m guessing she’s like that girl in the ghost story; take that sucker off and her head rolls down the steps. The hair-style looks exactly like what my friend’s fifteen year old daughter wears. For cross-country practice.
I’m calling hickey.
I once received a ‘love bite’ (ew) from a 20-yr-old barman then had to go to a party. My flatmate could sew, and made me the most awesome halter top with a scarf-like tie you wind around your neck into a bow.
WHY doesn’t Kristen Wiig have a friend like that???
it does feel to me like someone intended to sew it to the top of the dress and just got lazy about it.
all I can think of is Battle Royale and the exploding collars.
In answer to your question:
Transvestite. It covers the Adam’s Apple.
That dress was nothing without the choker. Just a beige blob. Her hair color is better dark too.
NO CHOKER. I can’t really add anything to your hilarious rant, so I will just loudly agree with you.
But I do agree that this dress could have been ok for her if she added a belt (it just really, really looks like it needs one), or some chandelier earrings, or some lovely long layered necklaces (in a color, mayhaps?) or anything that ISN’T A CHOKER.
Let’s face it: choker, no choker…nothing could save (or harm further) this dress. Awful, awful, awful dress.
” … this choker, this GIANT HIDEOUS CHOKER, is literally holding her head on her body.”
Oh my God. I totally read that story when I was little … doesn’t it end with her head rolling down the carpet, wailing, “I TOLD YOU you’d be sorrrrrrryyyyy!”??
Not a fan of the dress either, but now I’m just too scared to focus.
The whole look is terrible. That dress is in the dictionary next to the word boring, — come on, a plain beige halter dress? And then with that choker? And a beige clutch and no other jewelry? I don’t get it.
Someone as awesome as Kristen Wiig should never ever ever take fashion cues from the crackiest of all the Real Housewives.
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In all fairness, closeup she looked pretty amazing. When she did that presentation with the other Bridesmaids girls, you could see just how well her hair and makeup went with the dark sass of that choker. (And I’m not even a big fan of chokers. I think they went out with the 90′s.) So maybe it’s not normal to wear a choker with a halter neck. But as someone else said here, it seemed like a very ‘Wiig’ accessory. I think she actually pulled it off with her personality.
She also couldnt walk in the dress –awkward.
We called them Curling Iron Burns in the 70′s. I assume her jewelry is a family heirloom and it’s a hello signal to her dear sweet Grandmother, like Carol Burnett tugging her ear?
I like the dress and hair..maybe she should have put the choker on her wrist if she thought some extra oomph was required with the accessories?
Choker: what my friend who used to be a drag queen wore to hide his adam’s apple, though he never would have paired it with anything this high-necked. Dress: first, it’s boring; second, it’s dishwater-colored; third, the way the bodice blouses around the hips is hopelessly unflattering. In sum: this woman has a lovely figure, but she continually dresses to its detriment. Why?? If she’s thumbing her nose at the starlet fashion thing, then she should just wear a man’s suit or go full on SWINTON. As it is, she just looks painfully lost.
It’s awful. It MUST be necessary for some reason, right? Like the world’s biggest hickey?
It looks soooo uncomfortable!
This is the same dress she always wears and I’m tired of it! She’s an Oscar nominated writer, so why doesn’t she dress like one? That chocker is disgusting and I HATE IT! FUG & EW!!!!!!!!
I can see where she tried to go with this. Casually hip. Boho cool. Definitely not beaded or draped or over styled in any way. I can appreciate that. She just didn’tquite get there.
Didn’t she look exactly the same ( minus choker) at the globes?? I swear she looks exactly the same! (not a compliment)
I reckon it was supposed to be an armlet but she put it around her neck by mistake and her stylist was in the loo when she stepped out the door.
She was paying homage to Kaitlin Olsen’s Aluminum Monster!
Really though, I love her ensemble. The fabric is flowy, yet more fitted than what she wore at the GGs, the cut is amazing on her, shows off her statuesque figure, and her darker hair color is popping! She’s my second fave of the night after Emma Stone. Sophisticated.
I’ll tell ya, that certain someone is calling too much attention to her neck area. What up with that?
I don’t like how she looks here — particularly that the choker is off-center– but was flipping channels and caught the SAGs when she was presenting and thought she looked very cool, choker and all.
I’m not going to go on and on about how hideous and useless that damn choker is because it’s obvious enough, but that dress is so painfully boring I feel like I’m going to fall asleep just looking at it. Maybe she knew that the dress was drab, and added the choker for some edge and out of hope of livening it up a bit?