I looked at Jenni's dress again and it looks like a shift dress- a sleeveless v neck shift dress. But it's called "Easy and effortless". And Nina has been hard on shift dresses in the past.

It's fuller than I would like? Kind of trapeze-y to my eye. Was she the one who mentioned baby-doll? I guess that could be it. I don't think I always hate baby-doll dresses, but I often do, so it's probably just not to my taste and not actually wrong.

But, hey, I don't know enough to go by anything other than my taste, questionable as it may be.

Jenni's dress was very pillow-esque. Perfect description. I didn't hate it but I just didn't love it.

I agree that Roberi's look maybe wasn't very "cocktail" but it was my favorite dress that walked the runway and I thought many of the looks were not all that "cocktail". The theme seemed to be very loose this week.

I'm so very tired of fringe. I don't know that there was any saving Dexter's look for me. It was been there, done that. Also, that poo brown is a really hard color to work into a chic cocktail dress. I just wasn't feeling it at all.

Where I thought Dexter was gonna go with it would have been something Sean did in his Julius Caesar collection, or close to it, yeah. Would have been a different problem, at least.

You are right about the theme - I was surprised that the judges made almost no references to the putative inspiration.

When Mah-Jing was talking about the condensation I thought he was going to do .. some kind of beadwork or take a bronze fabric and use a shiny on top (like Brik did) to create an effect at the bottom. And maybe use just a few beads to evoke water droplets.

I'm kind of watching Survivor. I really really hate the Gen X vs Millennial thing. Everyone acts like they've never dealt with anyone outside their generation.

BUT after allowing the power couple to slide it finally got broken up. I was worried Taylor would get voted out and I'm interested to see if he's really that dim or if it's just an act.

I watched the finale of great British bake off. So sad! Though there's still a couple seasons I haven't seen from earlier...

oh I'm behind on that too... got to catch up.

Watched PR... thought the wrong person went home and I can't believe Erin's was just.. all that time spent for what looked like nothing.

Also looking at Laurence's pants last night (the ones she wore not the ones she made)... and whoever made the dolman sleeve jacket-- I thought for the first time drop crotch pants aren't ugly and look kind of comfortable.

Watched PR... thought the wrong person went home and I can't believe Erin's was just.. all that time spent for what looked like nothing.

I thought that the right person went home. Although I appreciate the work that went into the garment, it was not well made. I'd rather see simple clothes that are well made than a tricky garment that doesn't fit well and puckers in wierd places.