Monday, February 25, 2008

And the award for worst dressed goes to...

Dear First-Time Academy Award Attendees,

Perhaps you have been so busy producing your Oscar-nominated masterpieces that you have been unable to process anything going on in the rest of the world, but for your information, the Academy Awards are a dress-up event! The Brits were of course the worst offenders, they almost always are (something about the constant rain must turn the fashion-conscious side of the brain into complete mush).

Poor Marketa Irglova (winner of best song along with Glen Hansard). You're speech was precious and we're all very delighted that your dreams have come true...yadda, yadda. Um, did you forget to tell the person doing your hair that you were attending the Oscars and not your 4th grade piano recital? I know you were an unknown, sitting in the back, nobody interviewing you, but could you maybe have mentioned to whichever highland cousin was getting you dressed that you were actually performing on stage in front of 1 billion people?!? Surely such exposure warrants a touch more than a few twists of a curling iron that fell out 3 hours before. Some hairspray perhaps? Clearly you and Glen didn't get the memo about the last-minute venue change from McDougal's Pub to the Kodak Theatre. I know y'all are on a shoe-string budget, but you do realize in this country you can rent a tux for $80...I'm nearly certain the producers would have loaned you the cash.




Dear Tilda Swinton,

What the hell is wrong with you?! You have shown up to the most glamorous night in Hollywood wearing nary a stitch of mascara! You are not an attractive woman, your skin is positively translucent, your teeth crooked, and your eyes bugged- you are not the person to go au naturale to an internationally televised event. I know in your native land pasty is a way of life, but even your side of the pond has bronzer. And what's with the Kool-ade orange hair? I really don't understand, is the goal here to make yourself look as unattractive as possible, because if so...congratulations!!




Also, maybe the next time you're nominated for an Oscar you might mention that to your stylist so that she holds some gowns for you and you don't end up grabbing a trash bag as you run out the door, throwing it hap-hazardly about your frame in the limo. Who am I kidding, you drove yourself over in an MG Midget, hence the wrinkled mass of fabric. Again, if you would mention to someone that you are not only nominated but sitting in the front of the auditorium, perhaps they could find you something better than a Hefty bag, or at least take an iron to the damn thing!


The rest of you are off the hook for the moment, so distraught am I over the above offenders. If I recover later today I'll take the hachet to the rest of you.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Time for a refresher course kids?

Okay, did I not make myself clear cause we got some confusion goin' on. So I'm walking behind a woman today, the coldest day in February, the dead of winter- mind you. And she's wearing some really horrific pants. I mean they are too small and poorly tailored such that they look like they've been ruched up the inseam toward the ass crack, which I might add, was clearly defined against the thin fabric.

So fine, the pants were too small and ill-fitting, big deal, happens every day. Oh, did I fail to mention that they were WHITE?

Come on now kids, we know the rules about white. Do I not point out every year on Labor Day that the white pant season is over? And even though I occasionally bend for the warmer part of September, there is really no excuse for this. I give y'all an inch and you take 3 yards of fabric and wrap them around your ass.

So lest you be confused any longer - the white pant season ends at Labor Day and though we might extend until October for unseasonably warm weather, the white-less season extends through the entire winter until Memorial Day (or whenever summer begins in your climate) Since I don't think I have any readers in Australia that means FEBRUARY is NEVER an acceptable month in which to wear white cotton pants.


The lesson here kids? Try to avoid being fat in bad clothes. If you must be fat (cause let's face it, it happens) and you must wear bad clothes (cause let's face it, it happens everyday) then for the love of god do it in dark colors!