I’ve never thought that putting her hair back was Kate Bosworth’s best look, although I am loving this hilariously Come Hither expression.
However, all lusty hitherness aside, I think this would’ve looked sunnier and cuter if she’d let her hair down (also a good tip for what traditionally comes after the hithering). But that’s a minor quibble. A good shirt dress is hard to find, and although as ever I’d have loved to see this in a fun color or pattern, I’ll take it — considering the weather in LA in December is basically akin to a beautiful autumn day most other places, it’s appropriately breezy, and certainly does make me wish I was on a boat, y’all. Maybe she’s trying to send her Aussie ex Orlando Bloom a message, because it’s summer there, and he COULD be on a boat, y’all… okay, fine, that’s a reach. I just wanted to say that boat thing again. Y’all. Anyway, credit to Kate for picking a cute red shoe with this. A red belt or purse might’ve been even cuter — or better still, a richer red lip; ANY extra kick, basically — but overall I am on board the train (HA, you thought I couldn’t resist the boat thing again, but you were wrong).
Kirsten Dunst went with a similarly casual theme at the same event, so I figured I’d throw ‘em together and see which one came out on top. Like a big shirt-dress mud-wrestling extravaganza, but without the dirt and the hair-pulling.
Okay, Kirsten’s is more of a coat dress. (Trench dress? A Drench?) But I love it. This is what I always imagine I look like when I belt my red wool trench at Fashion Week, when in fact I think I look like a very sunburned insomniac pear. Oddly, I think SHE could have benefited from a soft updo — she and Kate should’ve traded coifs, but maybe with more tendrils — and the shoes are perhaps a touch heavy. Overall, though, I am feeling them both, and go back and forth on which one I’m feeling more. A helpful shove wouldn’t go amiss right now, Fug Nation. So do it. Shove me. It might be therapeutic.
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I really consider these two different looks. Even aside from the difference in color, Kirsten’s is double-breasted which gives it more of a jacket vibe that Kate’s shirtwaist dress mood.
Orlano Bloom is distinctly English, his wife however is Australian
Kirsten needs Kate’s shoes and she’s good. LOVE her dress — that navy is great with her skin. Bosworth’s dress, however, reminds me of when Banana Republic only sold safari-type wear.
that is EXACTLY what i was thinking!
Kiki by a country mile.
The problem with the shirtdress (I live in dresses) is that it is a shirtdress. The frump is essential to the look. This is probably why K-Bos is making Well-HELLO-There Face: she has realized that she’s wearing a librarian’s Tuesday outfit. It’s hard to sex up a look that seems most at home standing next to the microfiche, but points for trying.
Kiki’s dress messes with the frumpy formula by going all trenchy: it invokes thoughts of sudden bursts of rain, wet sidewalks, protection or the lack of it. It’s also a lovely color.
The shoes are unfortunate. Maybe one of them converts to an umbrella?
Ahahahahahaha………….
Both look pretty good, but KBos is exemplifying my pet peeve. HER SHOES ARE TOO FREAKIN’ LARGE. So many of the starlets seem to be wearing borrowed (i.e. free) shoes, and they seem to all be too damn big. Somehow we plebes manage to buy our own shoes, couldn’t they have just a little pride ?
Gotta say I kinda love both.
Don’t know who’s dressing Kiki these days, but more often than not they’re hitting it out of the park. I just love her navy faux-coat dress. It’s perfect. She looks relaxed and polished. Now that’s the way to do a grown-up look without making the wearer look middle-aged (looking at you, Heigl and Hough).
Bosworth looks OK too, if a little washed out.
Kirsten’s fits better, and she has better posture.
I’m sorry but that sour look on Kirsten’s face completely ruins any goodwill the dress itself might have established.
Yes, Kate’s dress looks like the uniform of an Australian national parks employee, but her makeup is so fresh and her accessories are great.
Is there any way we could combine the top of Kate’s dress with the skirt of Kiki’s? Only, you know, all one colour? Because I don’t quite love the double-breasted thing and I really don’t love the sloppy look of the skirt on Kate. Nearly.
And while we’re talking about it, where can I get a really great shirtwaist dress? Haven’t seen one in forever.
I want that blue trench dress. I like being covered up in a cool spy-goes-shopping way.
no really, I love it!!)
Keep reading “hither” as “hitler”, my way still works.
hee
it’s all about the color. KBos would look miles better with a darker hue. even khaki. or olive. and i agree that KDun looks amazing lately – she must have hired a new stylist.
and yeah, buy some damn shoes. that fit.
that navy blue is so beautiful on Kristen
Agreed. That shade of navy, and K.D.’s shoes are my favorite.
A shirtwaist in tan looks like the uniform of the classiest guide on the safari river boat ride. I expect her to tell me to look to my right and I can see a hippo.
And if you turn around right now, ladies and gentlemen, you can see The Back Side Of Water …
oh….Jungle Cruise reference..I am so geek happy right now!!!
Wait, is that Kate in beige? Yawn.
Staying on topic, I like Dunst’s outfit best, mostly because I like HER best, I suppose. Both looks are perfectly acceptable, if lacking much of a wow factor.
Going OFF topic, what is up with this American Apparel ad here in the right sidebar? If that girl was wearing that outfit actually IN these pages, we’d all be fugging the crap out of it. The top makes her bustline look droopy, and the skirt makes her butt and thighs look about twice the size that I’m sure they really are. AND she’s wearing what looks like $4.99 scuffs from Wal Mart. Nothing about that ad would make me want to shop in that store. Yikes.
Meh. I like Kirsten’s actual dress better, but somehow overall I think Bos is winning. Don’t ask me how, I can’t tell you.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Kirsten’s look!!! Everything about it is PERFECTION, but I would swap her black shoes for Kate’s red pumps & I’d be in fashion heaven! COVET!!!
I don’t like Kate’s… She looks like a grown up girl scout on a chic safari and THAT just doesn’t make sense!
I prefer Kirsten’s dress anyway, but I’d give her the win on account of the presentation alone: Bosworth has been overworking that pelvis-out come-hither pose for years. Points off just for that.
At least Kiki is a real girl.
Agreed. Bosworth looks like she’s gonna tip over, not really a good look on anyone.
Hmmm, shirt dress vs coat dress. I really like Kiki’s look. Her stylist team is knocking it out of the park this season. KB’s outfit does need some more red accents — those shoes rock, but the belt looks like a missed opportunity — and I really think a little bit of a 40s wave to her hair would help, too. Sure, we’d compare her to Jaime King, but there are worse things than playing the emulate-Grace-Kelly game.
Actually, I thought Kate’s dress already resembled an outfit Grace Kelly wore in the movie Mogambo, even if the hair and makeup didn’t quite complete the look. I agree Kiki’s dress is better, but I can’t support the hair.
Kirsten wins by a country mile even though I’d like to see it livened up with a bit of colour like red or yellow accessories.
Kate’s outfit screams ‘frumpy tour guide at the zoo’, and her shoes blend in too well with the carpet to be any sort of statement other than ‘don’t look at me’.
If Kate went bold with the red accessories – fire engine red shoes, wide belt, maybe even a bangle bracelet (and got some posture lessons) it would help, but beige is so bloody boring it’s almost an automatic skip over for the eye.
Kiki’s fits her.
K Bos cracks me up here because the come hither face is so out of keeping with that prim, buttoned up to the neck dress. That outfit woud have looked a great deal better with a couple of those buttons undone.
I love Kiki’s outfit, but it does look less like a dress and more like a coat, like she’s heading out to dinner and has a skimpy little frock underneath. She looks gorgeous, though.
Wow. Kirsten has been looking GREAT. Good for her. I LOVE everything about her outfit- navy dress/black shoes, the perfectly twisted belt, and the “oh, fuck me” over it face (but good make up and hair, so it works). Love it.
Orlando Bloome ain’t no Aussie. He’s British!
In a previous post about Kate (it was a well played) you said – get your hair off your face
and in this post you say that the hair off her face look is not her best one 
I so want a perfect Navy Drench!!
Bosworth’s dress seems vaguely military to me, and this combined with her whole apple-cheeked-wholesome-blonde aesthetic makes me think “Nazi poster girl.”
Kiki is a rare celebrity in that she’s lately been wearing clothing a full grown, smart woman would choose to wear. She doesn’t want to be thought of as a brainless sexpot or a witless pothead, she’s a good, talented actress with range. So, the colours her stylists are choosing are all flattering; the cuts and designs of her clothes have been perfectly tailored for her, the accessories and jewellery have all been really pretty pieces and very different from the dime-a-dozen skintonelouboutins that everyone is being coerced to wear. She seems determined to stand out, and it shows. That’s what good stylists are supposed to do.
Also, after seeing her “handle” things when her latest movie’s director put his foot in his mouth publicly at a recent film festival, I’m convinced she’s no ordinary celebrity airhead. More power to her–and more great things to come for her, too.
Kate needs to get away from this neutral/beige palate I feel like it washes her out.
God, Kiki has been on a roll lately, a delicious jelly roll of clothes and a personal style that I totally covet. Is it perfect? No. But I love it regardless.
Am I the only one who knows that Orlando Bloom is English, not Australian?? I mean, we’re happy to claim him if the UK doesn’t want him. That all said, I’ll take K Bos’ face and K Dunst’s dress. Ta.
I’m in the minority, but I definitely prefer Kate’s look to Kirsten’s. Kate’s whole presentation is cute, although, yes, beige, and she would look better with her hair down; Kirsten’s strawlike, moppish hair and heavy black shooves make me angry, however, and her dress looks like it’s created from double-knit polyester. In addition, do both actresses have scoliosis?
Both dresses are cute overall, but what is with the twisted belt on Kirsten’s?