So, yeah, I do realize this is a jumpsuit, and yet I am not approaching it with abject disapproval. I KNOW. I’m sure the lightheadedness of Abfest 2012 still has me in its clutches.
But seriously, that doesn’t look awful on her. At least, I don’t think so — okay, so part of it is sitting weirdly on her chest, like it’s sagging or needed to be pinned/pressed/taped, but it’s such a small thing. Otherwise, from this angle, I am far less enraged by the jumpsuit itself than I expected. My bigger question is with the styling, specifically the choice of jacket:
That blazer has a home somewhere, but it’s not here: The line of it, especially from this angle, looks musty and frumpy — ESPECIALLY when you get her right up next to Viola Davis, who is killing it per usual and has done so without anything on her person that looks purloined from an octogenarian. What would you do? Layer with something else? No layer at all? Replace the jumpsuit and keep the jacket? Or just genuflect to Viola’s general awesomeness and try again tomorrow?
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isn’t that a cardigan, not a jacket? that doesn’t make it okay, mind you, but … isn’t that a cardigan?
I believe the lapels make it a jacket?
Maybe? I always think of a cardigan as a sweater material, and I don’t think that is. I think it could go either way?
It looks like a constructed jacket with lapels, but in a lace overlay on the main part of the jacket and the dreaded transparent lace sleeve. So in my book, it counts as a jacket. Either way, jacket or cardigan, it falls firmly in the Matronly Fug category.
Viola for the win!
I don’t hate the jacket. I would have belted the jumpsuit. Under, not over the jacket.
This.
I’m not stabby about the jumpsuit itself, but dear lord that blazer ages the whole look. Younger styling would work wonders.
Also, I think Viola could Go Up A Size™. The dress is riding up her middle even though she’s standing.
I’d just bow before Viola’s awesomeness and try again tomorrow. However, that being said, could the woman at least try to dress in her age group? She’s pretty but looks like she belongs on the Golden Girls.
I thought the same thing. The jacket is definitely sending off a Blanche Devereaux vibe.
Jumpsuit needs a belt, but I don’t like the lace blazer with it. Without seeing more of the jumpsuit, I don’t know what I’d pair it with (maybe nothing. Leaving it on the hanger might be an improvement, actually), but the navy color with the lace on top of it and the exposed elastic waistband look too frumpy.
The blazer would really be chic with leather skinnies, pointy toed pumps and a simple white silk tank. Plus and updo/red lippy.
Exactly!!
Oh, and can I just say I think Viola’s look would be EVERSOMUCHMORE awesome if she was sporting her teeny-weeny afro in that lighter color she was wearing before. Gorgeous color on her, though.
I loved when she rocked her natural hair, but I didn’t love the color. A rich chocolate brown would have been better, I think – or jet-black, which I’m guessing is the hair color she was born with.
Maggie G. always looks so frumpy, but her face and hair both look so fresh and pretty here. Such a shame! I don’t think that jumpsuit can be saved (neither can the jacket.). This isn’t exactly Zbornak, but is definitely looking kind of Blanche Devereaux.
I love the color of the jumpsuit on her. If it had a cute belt , add a little bling of jewelry and different shoes it would stand on it’s own. Loose the coverup.
Viola’s awesomeness goes without saying. But it looks like she stepped on a chicken.
It might help if she belted the blazer with a bright, fun belt.
It might help even more if she lost the blazer and added a bright fun belt to the jumpsuit.
It might help the most if she lost the jumpsuit and the blazer and added a pencil skirt and v-necked silk blouse. The shoes look like they have potential, but I can’t really tell under all that stumpifying jumpsuit fabric.
Viola looks amazing. That color is gorgeous on her, her hair is cute, and I love that bracelet. Not to mention that killer smile. She is stunning.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s clothes often read frumpy to me. This is one of those times.
Who told Maggie she should always purse her lips and never, never open her mouth to smile in photographs? Because I think maybe they were wrong.
She is pretty, she wears odd clothing, but if she would at least not do strange things with her face it would look more like she was just being herself. Maybe that’s why she normally looks better in motion.
The color works on MG, so there’s that.
But part of me is wondering if this isn’t a jumpsuit, so much as it’s a matching pants-suit. Where the pants have an elastic waistband.
I shouldn’t be wondering that about a teeny-tiny Hollywood actress.
I don’t think I’d recognize Maggs if she suddenly showed up at an event looking matched, tailored, and excited to be there. That said, I kind of dig the relaxed vibe, even if/when it doesn’t match. At least it fits. You know, mostly.
Oh hey, I kind of like the jumpsuit. It fits her, literally and figuratively, I think. I actually would avoid a belt, as I think it would almost certainly make this look extremely eighties costume-y. But I’ll leave open the possibility that a belt may exist out there that would not take this into Dynasty or 227 territory, which to me is not a good thing, though I will allow for differing opinions. I like the shoes.
I maybe kinda sorta see where she was going with the blazer, which has a pajama feeling with the piping and the cut, though the lace is so flipping random. But the shape ultimately doesn’t work here and I can’t envision what would work–almost everything results in frumpiness in my mind. So, I’m going to say nix the jacket and replace with nothing. You chose to wear a jumpsuit–sacrifices must be made.
I loooove the color of that jumpsuit! Hate the blazer. Would make a bonfire with it. Ykes. Maggie is indeed the queen of the “almost nailed it but not quite, come to think of it, not at all”.
Genuflect … tomorrow is another day!
I don’t know… as a mother, I have this feeling of like, if you gave birth within the past six months (she’s pushing 4 months post baby now), wear whatever the eph you want. It is an awkward time, celebrity or layman. So…. I can’t ding the outfit, or I would be a raging hypocrite mother. Trust.
I like the jumpsuit. My recipe for a well played: ditch the jacket, swap the shoe for a strappy sandal, and add a bangle or a cocktail ring.
let’s fece it guys; Maggy is about the one celeb we have left who seems to be as clueless about and/or uninterested in fashion as most of us whe aren’t readers of GFY. It’s refreshing really. Can’t you fug girls install some kind of Normalcy Award? The dressed out to go shopping-look? The all-dressed -up- for- a -PTA meeting styling?
I am actually liking the jumpsuit! I think because the jacket hangs over the tops of her hips, it doesn’t create that weird middle area that some jumpsuits do that makes women look pooch-y.
Black belt and a fitted black blazer that stops at the top of the hip.I love black and navy together; it’s classic without feeling frumpy.
What about the things on Maggie’s feet? WTH??
I think if Maggie simply removed the jacket and stood up straight, she would look very cute.
But of course she should take notes from Viola as well!
I agree with the folks above who referenced the Golden Girls. This smacks of Bea Arthur to me. I adore both the Golden Girls and Steel Magnolias but I think we should only borrow quotes from both, not fashion.
Also agree that while Viola looks 98% stunning, as usual, she could have gone up a size in the dress.
exactly, Helen. Maggie always slouches, which ruins whatever she wears.
Ms. Gyllenhaal’s jumpsuit is a great example of how accessorizing can make or break an outfit. The jumpsuit appears to fit well — which is a great thing — but it could be improved by (of course), loosing the lace blazer and adding a big necklace or a scarf tucked in the neckline.
Well, she’s fab grandma.
A higher neckline and pearls and I swear it looks just like the dress we buried my grandmother in…….
Youth obsessed much? Older women have a more developed sense of style, eh? I get a kick out of Maggie’s couture. Both women are beautiful and dignified. Yes, dignity is a concept as opposed to flashy.
I would not stand next to Viola Davis, that’s what I’d do. I actually thought that it was pretty cute for a jumpsuit until that point.
I love it whenever a celeb chooses comfort over pain, and this outfit looks comfortable. Why not let a woman relax?
The jacket is unfortunate, especially since this didn’t really require anything over it. I actually think everything except the jacket is awesome.
Love this look on you!
Maggie looks like she’d be Viola’s mother or aunt, proudly standing next to her daughter, saying, “Look at my little girl! She’s become such a beautiful woman! I’m so proud!!!”
That is my grandmother’s jacket, only she made it look stylish. At 78.
Lose the jacket definitely. Looks like it was made of doilies and makes Maggie look old and crotchety, pursing her lips, especially next to Viola’s 100watt smile. She is so fabulous.
I love the lace blazer it’s just not styled right. I also like this jumpsuit on her but it’s also not styled right!!
my bitch with jumpsuits is how incredibly difficult they make trips to the restroom. adding a jacket to the problem seems masochistic. i hear the people saying that she just had a baby and this looks comfortable and she deserves to be comfortable (with which i heartily agree, having 3 kids of my own), but when you DON’T DARE DRINK ANYTHING, how can you be comfortable?
jumpsuits have the capability of looking awesome, but when you can’t pee without completely disrobing, it totally trumps any pluses for appearance with an enormous minus. just don’t jumpsuit, y’all.
I’m surprised no one has said anything about Viola’s shoes. What the heck are those fringes off the back?
Someone above said it looks like Viola “stepped on a chicken”.
The problem I have with jumpsuits is they look better if made into a skirt! How fabby would Maggie be if that jumsuit were a dress, she added a belt and got rid of that blazer??? Oh, and if she stood up straight for once.
Gyllenhaal’s outfit is very mumsy, but otherwise unoffensive (she is a mom, after all). Viola looks good in the coral (although I think she could have gone up a size and had it tailored, or maybe worn stronger Spanx), but I hate her shoes – my inner Liz Lemon emerges when I see someone in open toed shoes which DON’T FIT PROPERLY. Feh.
Give it a couple of sequins and it looks like something that Blanche Devereaux would have worn down to the Rusty Anchor.
Get “Sassy Grandma” over there a bottle of Arbor Mist!
I’m also just not on the Maggie bandwagon. Her face (which, I realize has NOTHING to do with her clothing) has always looked so much older than she is. She’s never looked her actual age in my estimation. She’s 34. Thirty-four. And to me, she just doesn’t look it.
The outfit is doing her NO favors.
The jumpsuit is not horrible because it’s well-tailored, simple, and a nice color for her. The jacket age-ifies the whole ensemble and should be burned. But more generally: Maggie clearly prefers to dress like an adult and not show us her cleavage, ass, etc. at every outing which I appreciate and respect. But with looks and a figure like hers, why can’t we see her in a kickin’ pencil skirt and fitted top? Or a Calvin Klein tank dress? Or even an Armani pants suit if she wants to go businesslike on us? There are so many better choices than this.
Umm has no one noticed how ridiculously SHINY Viola is here? It looks like she just surfaced from a vat of highlighter
Seriously, someone with genes like that really shouldn’t wear this amount of makeup
She looks great.
I love Maggie’s outfit, I would wear it myself. Though I would prefer a fitted top with pants rather than the baggy jumpsuit. But then, I have a soft spot for granny clothes and will always choose them over “young, fun & flirty” clothes, which can so often veer into escort territory..
Viole does look fine, but the dress is a tad tight and I dislike her ankle straps. Maggie’s shoes also look suspect.
*Viola
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