Thursday, February 28, 2013

Academy Awards Fashion Sanity Winners

In all the frenzy of fashion swirling around the Academy Awards, and the media spending way too much time covering haute couture, it was refreshing to see a couple of beautiful women who weren't pressured to succumb to promoting designers' fashions on the red carpet.

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Bradley Cooper already earns double points for bringing his mom as his date. But when Kristen Chenoweth asked Gloria who she was wearing, she answered, "Just something out of my closet." I just about fell off the couch with joy. And I learned she was wearing comfy tennis shoes under there, too. Finally, some sanity around that place. Gloria, you looked beautiful, and you're my kind of gal!

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Helen Hunt also looked gorgeous in her H&M off the rack dress. 

I can't imagine the pressure piled on the stars to seek physical perfection and/or to make no mistakes pertaining to the ever-changing, always subjective fashion trends. And that's coupled with the fear of being ripped apart for their fashion choices by the tabloids and the Joan Rios of the entertainment news (oxymoron?) shows. 

Descendants of the tailors from the Emperor's New Clothes are alive and well today. Fashion's goal is to make you think the perfectly good clothes you have in your closet this month are totally inadequate. And after you buy the latest fashions, they will tell you the same thing again next month. 

Don't buy into that never-ending merry-go-round. 






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