Sue! How can you love the flower? Say it ain't so!

Okay, I didn't love the flowers that much, but I loved the dress on Cate. I liked the way it was cut to her body, yet had those flowy train and sleeves. I loved the colour on her too.

I thought she looked classy and beautiful.

I loved the color (on her, I don't think I could wear that color, but wish I could) too, Sue. If it didn't have the rosette--actually the two big rosettes (one on her bust, one on her hip), I would be standing right next to you.

I am totally with Sophia on the need for good undergarments. I also think a lot of these dresses should have been lined/more sufficiently lined. I think I could see Cate's navel. I still want to know more about Mariska's dress. Even if I chalk up her marvelous, bulge-less lines to undergarments, I don't understand how the gown could be completely uncreased. I wonder if that was some sort of satin-something else blend.

I can't get past one of her [edit: Cate's] breasts looking like a triffid. Nice colour, and much of the cut (the matching hip triffid is also not my friend). I found JG's extra foof easier to get past.

I think mariska's dress might have been a stratch satin. Also, they probably have people with steamers stream them after they get out of the limo and before walking down the carpet

I am not sure mariska was wearing undergarments, as the had a lot of nipple show through.

Hi Nilly! Yay for your friend's engagement.

eeee! people like me! eeee!

Only those with brains.

is that good?

Zombies like you too, Suela.

But I stand corrected.

Or amended, or something.

Coffee. Coffee would be good here.

Also, IIRC, satin is a weave, and can be made out of any sort of fiber. So I imagine some Satin's are more wrinkly than others!

Undergarment evidence. Nipple evidence.

I am not sure mariska was wearing undergarments, as the had a lot of nipple show through.

I think she had to have something from the bust, down. Even a person in fabulous shape (and she probably is) just isn't as smoothed out as she looks in those photos. I'd expect bones, or a little puppy fat, or muscles to show through. She looked like her body was made of satin, too.

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I think no one else hates Natalie Portman's dress enough.

I can't stand it. For one thing, it's not flattering -- she looks as flat-chested as a little boy. (So does Rachel Bilson, which is totally wrong like the wrongest thing in Wrongtown on National Wrong Day.)

However, I think the dress I dislike most, in terms of it making its wearer look like shit is -- and I think I'm a minority opinion here -- Hillary Swank's. That color is so so SO very wrong on her. The cut was great -- she has a killer body -- but the color was awful on her.

You know who looked FAB? Angelica Huston, after she took the coat off.

Bad hair: Charlotte Johanssen's hair is WAY too blonde. Unflattering. Renee Zellwiger's hair is WAY too dark. Also unflattering. (And, please -- her whole ensemble, including a ponytail, made her look like a 16-year-old waiting for her prom date.)

Good hair: Charlize Theron's color is really striking, and on almost anyone else I'd think it was too dark, and yet she pulls it off. It looks damn good.