In some ways, this pattern is not all that different than the one I loved on Leslie Mann. So it comes down to execution.
And call me crazy, but it’s just less effective when you look like you wallpapered an adult diaper.
Also, you’re not wrong — that IS a giant hole in her tights. Let’s take a look from the side:
Let’s detour for a moment to discuss that the shorts barely even cover the full buttock curve. And then let’s get back on track and address the fact that the flank hole is so perfect and so rolled and so utterly without threat to the structural integrity of the rest of the tights that it MUST be deliberate, and designed, and desired… and, thus, I just dented my forehead from rapping on it with my knuckles in an attempt to compute. PEOPLE. DERELICTE WAS A JOKE. ZOOLANDER WAS NOT A DOCUMENTARY.
[Photo: Pacific Coast News]
Comments (56):
I’m more intrigued by her iPhone case. Brass knuckles! Fun.
http://www.incrediblethings.com/style-and-gear/5/
searched and will buy when i own an iphone.
Thanks!! I wonder how you’d text with those, though. You could only use one hand coming around from around the back…
I had no idea that was a thing!
On the one hand, it’s $99.
On the other hand, it’s only $99 for what may be the most awesome iPhone case ever (and that includes the Gameboy one I saw.
…I think I know what I’m saving up for next.
I am looking at this and everything in the buttock area (let’s leave it at that) itches. It must be so unconfortable to wear, and sit and do stuff. But she does not do stuff does she? Stars are the only living things that look at clothes ads where models are wearing unpractical things in unpractical postures and decide to do the same. Good for them!! It’s a hobby!!
Any post that has a Zoolander reference is Ace in my book.
“ORANGE MOCHA FRAPPUCCINO!”
And the models died in a “tragic gasoline fight accident.” LOL. Love that movie!
eugooglizer.
I love her hair like this. From the neck up she looks fabulous!
Girlfriend looks a little hungover. That may explain this outfit (no, it doesn’t). At least her hair looks nice…?
NO, she has a pompadour!!!
She looks like she has a gaudily dressed man in a tricked out Cadillac waiting to take 70% of her fee from a frisky, out of town businessman.
Oh my goodness, I just saw a pic of her wearing this on People’s website…the holes are on the inner thighs as well… or it least on the left inner thigh… I have no words…
I love that she’s not wearing makeup. She’s a natural beauty. From the waist up she looks like a college student who woke up late and just ran out the door to class (and I mean that as a compliment), and from the waist down it’s like, what? With the hole and the visible butt cheeks? And that hole is totally there on purpose, and I cannot for the life of me understand that. It’s up so high that you’d have to be wearing pretty much exactly this outfit – or God forbid, even LESS in the way of pants – in order for it to “work.”
oh, bleh. I hadn’t thought of how high it is. Thanks.
Quite welcome!
This kind of looks like what I wore the other day when I was sitting around with a heating pad and REALLY bad cramps – sans the tights.
From the waist up, casual and cute. She is very pretty. But why would one wear a sweater and shorts and walking shoes, if not to be comfy? And those shorts, plus the hose look very uncomfortable.
What.
those holes are from her va-jay jay trying to claw its way free..”air…! air!..can’t breathe..”
Who wears hose with shorts? Besides Rihanna obviously.
I have seen it in the real world many times. It always makes me sad.
http://badfadsblog.com/2012/04/25/to-quote-mean-girls-you-probably-smell-like-a-baby-prostitute/#more-344
http://badfadsblog.com/2012/04/18/fishnet-tights-and-denim-shorts-i-think-not/
Sad, sad evidence.
It’s not that I think that is a good look, it looks pretty silly. And I think Rihanna’s outfit is kinda gross.
But I am so TIRED with women belittling other women’s choice of clothes by calling them sluts/whores/tramps. SO TIRED. And it’s so ironic that the header of that post is a Mean Girls reference. Did the OP miss Tina Fey’s line about how it sucks to call other girls sluts, because then the men/boys think it’s ok for them too to call girls/women sluts? Kinda seems that way.
I think the fug girls usually don’t dross the line when it comes to slut shaming, but it’s not much they can do with their commentators I guess…
You can always email us when you think a line has been crossed, and in fact we welcome it because we can’t always be on top of the comments 24-7.
In this instance, though, I think your comments should best be taken up with Bad Fads via email, as that complaint has nothing to do with anything we’ve written here on GFY, or this post in general…
Thanks!
Shorts with tights was an actual trend in the early – mid ’90s. I wore it. (I was in middle school! DON’T JUDGE ME.) My friend G. wore basically Rihanna’s outfit all the time, except her shorts were plaid, longer, and looser and she usually wore black on top. Turn on any show from the ’90s that has teens in the cast and you’ll see it – Kelly Kapowski totally wore this look, as did Angela Chase.
AND BLOSSOM.
I’ve lost hope for her. She’s the best dressed bum I’ve ever seen. Or at least the most expensively dressed. If she does this stuff to herself, she needs a stylist. If she has one, she needs to FIRE THEM IMMEDIATELY.
Note at the top of the left leg there are little snags and catches in the hose … if she must wear these atrocious panty-shorts with hose, she should at least wear a new pair of hose!
Rihanna is wearing something similar to these: http://www.shapings.com/pantyhose/chariss-suspender-pantyhose.html …her choice to wear these with shorts is a tad ‘racy’ for sure… most women I know that wear hosiery with their shorts — and there’s plenty that do! — generally wear sheer-to-waist or opaque tights, not these faux-garter-&-stockings type, which are far better suited for under a skirt…. that all said, she’s a pop star, let her wear what she wants!!!
Yep, I agree with male fan. If you look carefully at the top photo, the holes are symmetrical. That’s not a “hole”, it’s a choice.
male fan, that link just made me feel all girlie and awkward like when I was 7 and saw my mum’s lingerie… and I am 35 years old!!! So kinky. So kinky.
I suspect that what you are seeing on the tights is not random holes, but that they are in fact the type of hosiery that attach to a garter belt.
These tights want to create the illusion of garters but the legs are indeed attached to the waistband. Here in my country (Chile) there’s a store that sells them under the suggestive name “Lewinsky tights” and, like they advertise, if you wear them without panties then you’re “always ready” http://bit.ly/JSRNDM
From the knees down, she looks like one of those ladies who have to walk to the subway en route to their middle-management nine-to-fiver, and bring their heels in a tote bag. Hose and sneakers? Kids these days. Next thing you’ll be telling me that cat hair on trousers is trendy (fingers crossed).
Well, I love that she’s wearing comfortable shoes, like a normal person might wear if they were out running errands. It almost redeems the rest of the outfit, which I was more or less ok with anyway. I don’t mind the short shorts, since they’ve become so ubiquitous, and I really like the floral print. The tights/hose things… meh. They look kind of odd, but not in a horrible way. She’s just so cute in general that she can get away with this.
Her crotch bloomed in a derelicte garden.
I see that she put on her crotch less tights on backwards. Again.
Okay, Rhianna, the world. Pet peeve alert!
If it’s hot enough to wear underpants-as-shorts then it is TOO hot to wear a sweater and/or tights with same.
If it is not warm enough to wear said underpants-as-shorts alone, THEN DON’T WEAR THEM.
The end.
Also: You kids get offa my lawn!
I just don’t understand this. At all. I get the need to be “noticed”, but she’s frickin’ Rihanna! She’ll get noticed no matter what. Ugh. I just hate it when naturally pretty girls work so hard to de-prettify (it’s a word–sure it is), when the rest of us (or at least me) has to work just as hard to look presentable.
The grammar in this is bad. Excuse it.
Man, the worst of the week column is going to be CROWDED this weekend.
Thats not a hole in her tights. they are thigh highs and she clipped them to a garter belt. HOT.
1st → She’s carrying a shoulder bag, so why is all that stuff in her hand?
2nd → Her sweater says “I’m cold”, but her floral pampers & cut-off hose say “I’m hot”… Can’t she make up her sartorial mind or are the two halves off her body different temperatures?
3rd → Why wear Adidas with this outfit? Without the hose, strappy flat sandals would’ve been fine or are her feet way too cold to handle it?
4th → I have a headache!
Oh, this totally needs to be labeled “Scrolldown Fug”;
because I thought she looked nice in a cute sweater … ::scroll::
ACK! What is THAT covering her nethers??
Clearly while those tights may rip, they have not laddered. I would love to know what brand they are…
The whole outfit looks like something from the 50 cent bin at Goodwill. I just don’t get it.
Y’all. I dress like this a lot (torn tights, short shorts) but I play roller derby. (Greensboro Roller Derby shout out!) And the tights start out without holes but when you fall they get torn. And… I wear it TO PRACTICE. This is not something I’d wear to, say, a restaurant. This, to me, is the equivalent of wearing gym clothes to the mall. Of course, I don’t know where she’s going. If she’s on her way home from the rink, I say rock on. Otherwise…go home and change, sister.
I wish I could go back to the second first saw this and I just thought there was a beige pocket hanging out from her shorts… and then to the next second when I thought there was just a hole in her tights – before I realized they were not tights, but SUSPENDER HOSE.
I need a shower.
Y’know, when I first saw this post, I was asking myself, “What’s wrong with it? I hope one of the gossip mags does a ‘steal this look’ – I want that sweater!” And then I scrolled down. I should have known.
Honestly, who does that. So wrong…
Love the sweater and shorts – the tights I could live with – no to the sneakers
Everything about this outfit is horrid, but +100 points for the Zoolander reference.
She should lay off the herb. The hose… are so fugly..I really wish I had never seen them!
hahaha…DERELICTE jokes are never not fun!!
Except for the crotchless tights, which are weird, this just seems like her going casual. It looks kind of comfy, though fug, to me. But then again, I’ve never worn crotchless tights before. Casual, for sure, but are they comfy? Do tell.