Well Played, Tyra Banks

It shocks me to say this about anyone with crimped hair, but… I think Tyra Banks looks pretty great here, actually:

[Photo: INFDaily.com]

I mean, this is a woman who usually looks like she plucked her gown off a window in Versailles, or as if she is actually an aristocrat Marie Antoinette’s court who is about a week away from a sweaty revolutionary giving her the chop for her excesses. She is also prone to coifs that look like an homage to a fruit bowl. And that’s just scratching the surface. Tyra Banks is nothing if not a comparative science, and I have to say, this simpler dress with all the bracelets is refreshingly chic and sleek after all that hoo-ha. Sure, the material lays a little lumpy in places, but… seriously, whenever I have second thoughts about whether this dress is worth a pat on the back, I click back on that link to what she wore to the Daytime Emmys and it’s an affirmation. Yes, I cherish Tyra for all her overwrought excesses — hers is in my top five of Wig Closets And Wardrobes I Must Visit Before I Die — but sometimes it’s nice to see a reminder that there’s a lovely woman underneath all that hair and slap and pounds of fabric.