This isn’t as bad as I initially thought — when I saw the thumbnail of this photo, I didn’t see that she was carrying a purse; I thought it was just some random cutout in the beige part of Emily’s dress.
Now that mine eyes no longer deceive me, I’m still not totally enamored, but it’s certainly better. All the lace is a tad overdone. She looks like a widow’s hanky. I think I’d be able to deal with it in one place or the other, and my vote goes with keeping the neck lace and changing the skirt hem. However, she does at least look happy, and her eyeliner isn’t all smeared under her eyes the way it normally is. Maybe marriage has been excellent for her eye-makeup-application skills.
And at this point, at first, I wrote this whole thing about how Emily got hitched to one of the new SNL cast members, Taran Killam — to whom my husband has had this really visceral negative reaction, until this past week when Taran did the animatronic dancing skit and totally nailed it; I think their relationship might be on the mend — and then I remembered that he’s actually Cobie Smulders’ baby daddy, not Emily Deschanel’s husband. SHE is married to an actor named David Hornsby, who is on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and was apparently in Pearl Harbor. So, you know, Taran Killam ended up here by accident, and I’m sorry about that, dude. You really were good in that one sketch. I would like to know how your murderous animatronic musician would change this dress. Please advise.
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I really quite like the lace at the bottom and would keep both areas of lace but make the lace around her neck a little thinner, it looks like its choking her.
If it were a color, rather than beige, it would be a bridesmaid dress.
I’m afraid the only thing that could make that hideous thing better is a lit match.
hmmmm, well… I like the belt…That’s all I can say.
She looks like she forgot to take off her black lacy nightie before she put on her beige office-robot dress. And it ate her neck. Back to the closet and try again, Bones.
I think that the lace needs to go at both ends, or at least as Willow says, make the neck lace not look so chokey. Also, the combination of the beige body and black lace is bringing back nightmarish memories of ’70s satin-esque nightgowns, so, if any of the lace remains, I’d change the colors all around. As it is, it looks cheap, and I seriously doubt that’s the case here.
I can only imagine how pretty this would be as a funky ball gown with the beige being the long skirt and tons of black tulle underlay. I hate asymetrical hemlines.
To me the top of that dress looks a bit frumpy, and if you look at the left of the belt there’s a bit of fabric sticking out of the top, like maybe it’s a bit too big for her? Or maybe she just needs a better push up bra.
With the bottom just chop off above all that lace (or an inch or two above the knee) into a straight line, give it a tiny bit of swish, I think tight or straight would look bad. Then maybe lower the neckline a bit and add capped sleeves, something about the whole top of that dress is so frumpy.
Geometric silver stump shoes don’t go with lace so turn them into black leather, then make the clutch match the leather belt and maybe, just maybe.
I *hate* handkerchief hemlines. Haaaaaate them. Could we please send them back from whence thay came? (I think that would be 2002). Chop that thing off – a straight hem just above the knee would make this whole joint loads better. It won’t stop the beige fabric from looking flimsy and cheap, but… baby steps.
Bones is married to Cricket? AWESOME!
Also, I like this dress, but I think I would like it better if the skirt had a straight, not handkerchief, knee-length hem, with a narrower swath of lace on the bottom, about half as wide as it is now.
Lace cap sleeves, none at the neck or the hem, straighten the hem across, above the knee, et voila. @Kate, I’m with you on the handkerchief hems, they can be sent packing along with the one sleeve look.
Hahahaha. Bones and Rickety Cricket 4-Evaaa!
No comment about the dress. Just love the couple.
If it was a color it would look perfectly nice at a wedding reception at the Calhoun Beach Club in 1994. On a 54-year-old.
I’m with Kate on the handkerchief hemline. AWFUL. Chop it off at the knee, give her a pretty peep-toe shoe, and it would be LOADS better.
I also can’t quite tell how the lace is layered – on her right, it seems much thicker, and on her left, it looks like just one layer that maybe goes around back? The haphazardness of it all makes it seem sloppy.
That said, I quite like high necklines and don’t mind the lace.
This is pretty bad. I can deal with the upper half although I think the neckline would look better a bit lower. I like the belt. Below the waist, however, I hate it. That point and lacey stuff looks like the corner of a tacky tablecloth. The beige is ok, but she would be prettier in a color. Also, beige clothes have to be really good quality if you don’t want them to look cheap.
Can we pretend that’s a top, keep the belt, and put on a black pencil skirt? Yum yum yum. I love a good quality pencil skirt.
No just please never again.
Is it just me or does Jessie J in her heinous lace catsuit look like she’s holding a fancy vibrator? An odd design for an award. But it goes quite well with the outfit.
I have a nightgown that looks like this, except mine has a better hem. And no belt, obviously.
Needless to say, I don’t like this look (though I think SHE is fab).
Basically, what @Gina said, along with most of y’all.
Can’t believe I EVER, EVER, EVER thought handkerchief hems were cute. What was I smoking???
Ooh, cut off the skirt, keep the belt, change the beige to a color because with her skin tone, she cannot pull off beige, period. I like the idea above of a black pencil skirt. Different shoes. I think the bag’s okay, but I’ve seen better.
But! I do really like her hair, and I never like her hair. This cut suits her and keeps her from looking bobble-heady (as she so often does when she’s got an updo or ponytail). And yay for her generally looking happy. Happy wins.
Like Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree, this little thing isn’t so bad, it just needs some love. Simply take 3/4 off the width of the black lace, and get rid of the Gawdoffle shoes. If I must have some fashion throwback of the ’80′s, I’ll take a handkerchief hem over shoulder pads or Big Hair. And, gee whiz, she’s got more crowsfeet than I, a fifty-something.
There is no help for this thing.
I totally loved it til you said “widow’s hanky” now I can’t stop thinking about it
I may just be experiencing the effects of a week-long lack of sleep fest hosted by my 3 year old but I think that if this dress had a full overlay of the lace and a straight hemline a couple of inches above the knee we could be getting somewhere. Or, maybe just have the skirt with the overlay and the top could remain the same but with cap sleeves and a better bra. But what do I know? I haven’t slept in days.
Office Belt, Daytime clutch and neligee thrown in a blender and hey presto a very confused outfit that doesn’t make it as either a day dress, evening outfit or negligee. Asymetric hem I can live with but the high collar looks itchy and scratchy its so tight. Remove the collar replace with a v neck and feature the lace so that it is even on both sides or go one shoulder to balance the skirt drop. Frankly Nude silk and black lace belong only in your boudoir when lounging in your peignoir.
Why does every actress now want to look as dowdy and dumpy as Mamie Eisenhower? WHY?. This dress is beyond ugly, and as Deschanel has wide hips already, this horrible color is not a friend to her body. Who sold this dress to her? Who let her walk out of the house wearing it? Someone must really hate her, and I hope it’s not her sister or mother.
Hate that dress, it makes her look frumpy.
Loved Taran Killam as a murderous robotic Merryville brother. My favorite skit of SNL that day.
Has Spiderman’s black suit gone rogue, creeping onto the skin and mauling the fashion choices of Hollywood stars? Or perhaps, the black oil from the X-files has burst off of writer/creator Chris Carter’s page and into reality. Whatever it is, time to stop it from spreading. Mulder! Scully! Where are you?
RICKETY CRICKET!
oh those shoes are So Wrong.
imtiredo, theyre the no. 1 thing destroying the dress. the absolute fact that the dress does not make sense in & of itself, that–well, it is just no. 2.
i’m sorry, if ya wanna do stevie nicks, do stevie nicks. if ya wanna do courtney love doing stevie nicks then do that. but this is doing nothing. for her, for me, for anybody. she does NOT understand her own clothing.
either throw it out or nicks it up–give it the full boots & shawl treatment. i know everyone else will hate that idea–but it’s what’s gotta be done w/ sonething like that. else it is just hideous & should not be seen, never or even ever. if ya dont wanna put on a shawl, @ least put on a jacket, lady to cut all that filthy beige–ditch the bag & give yrself a belt w/ a buckle that, you know, sings.
cos what needs to be done is de-emphasis of what appears to be a somewhat limited sandy shore made out of a declassé rayon trimmed w/ courtney love’s mother’s leftover lace, a mess of which members of @ least two of her familial generatioins stuck in a crock pot for i dont know why & waited for it to burn over, which it almost but never did.
& NONE of that can be anything like even okay.
ps to whoever thinks hankie hems came from, ahem, 2002:
were i to note yes, once again, that stevie nicks & perhaps even carly simon wore them thirty years before that i would not be wrong.
were i to advance the notion that these were 70s expanding upon a 20s or 30s concept, yep, i would be w/in some kind of ballpark.
were i then to consider that the asymmetrical hemline probably has ancient roots {think, well, you know, ancient–possibly even pre-literate} roots, well {redux}, i am pretty sure i would be closer than 2002.
thats yr pre-lesson for today. now someone else go research it, i have had a fever most of this week.
I haven’t been watching too much SNL lately and so i had no idea who Taran Killam was until i read his name in this piece. Then I did an image search. Now i hate him, too. I don’t know why. It’s just his stupid face.
Maybe a hemline that matches the belt (as in staight across) instead of the handkercheif thing she has going on? I’m not wild about the body color but I like the lace.
Take a good 5 or six inches off the skirt but keep the lace hem…or just chop the bottom of all together. Also, ditch the old lady shoes and come back with a fiercer entry.
This looks a little Pocohontas w/ lace to me. I say: thumbs down.
Even out the hem, make the lace disappear, and turn the whole thing a medium blue, which would be a far more flattering colour on her. Also, please re-think those bangs!
The beige part looks… loin-clothy.
She looks like a VERY fancy cavewoman. Like, Mr. Slate’s saucy mistress.
Hey, Robin Scherbatsky DOES kind of look like Bones! Never realized it til now.
Make this a blouse that ends after the belt, maybe make it a halter or v-neck top and add pants. voila
This is getting a strong meh from me–it’s not awesome, but I’d hardly think it worth the effort of unfugging.
There’s a picture on my grandmother’s wall of great aunt Edna wearing one of those lace hankie things around her neck. It wasn’t a good look on her either.