JEANS

Sur I just think she's so tacky. I'm sorry. I also can't handle the make-up.

gwen stefani pulls it off much better (though i still think she wears too much too)

haha don't apologize! as i think we're all aware, i'm on the other side of the tacky fence :D

yeah, as long as the gloves are off... gah, she is SO tacky! she's like the cheap stripper version of the 40s pin-up girl.

xp - and we love you for it, of course

I ALMOST like so many things about that -- the lipstick with the gloss of an auto-body wax, the red heels, the hair all in pieces -- but somehow she just looks like she tried and failed, to me. Would like her jeans better if they were shorter, ankle-bone length.

of the '40s pin-up girl
Exactly.

I mean I have Petty Girl checks, for pete's sake. Trashy blonde up there is not measuring up.

The ScarJo photo that everyone hated with the really high jeans and the black tank top was SO much better.

You love those jeans so much!!! :-)

i don't remember this photo!

I could never never wear them cos I don't like having things around my waist. Also high-waisted jeans are so not the answer to sitting at a desk all day with the tummy bunched up. But I like that photo of her and I thought the disapproval when it came out was terribly unfair. :)

The ScarJo photo that everyone hated with the really high jeans and the black tank top was SO much better.
oh yeah, from the imitation of christ show? that was not so good

surm:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/iheartjamesdean/scarlett-highwaistskinnyjeansred-1.jpg

that's fucking hot

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I can't remember what it was for but I think she was modeling. Maybe Imitation of Christ or something like that? I just know that I've seen Laurel post about that pic/those jeans a bunch of times before. They're like her holy grail jeans.

hmmmm.

I think that they look good on her and she looks awesome there but I could never wear anything like that. I'd look ridic.

thx for posting that!

(the pic)

Yes! Phil beat me to it -- like I said, I couldn't wear them either, but that's about the only way I like jeans with heels.

i think the cigarette is kind of what makes the pic even moar laurel-y!

so perfect!

Wait, AND she's smoking? Oh shit etc. Haha.

I do actually have a pair of pointy red '50s stilettos and I have been known to wear them with very tapered ankle-length jeans. Mostly to like garage rock shows, though. Guilty as charged.

my friend's reaction to that look --
friend: that takes a certain kind of woman
but it is gorgeous

Ha, weird, I totally accept the shoe-swallowing on those proper trousers, but there is still a tiny part of my brain that has guy standards and is confused by the lack of feet/shoes and wonders about ease of walking and generally associates shoe-swallowing with

As for the ScarJo 50s-style high-waist tapered-leg heels thing, I know not many people are going to have the body type and inclinations to really pull that off, but I hope that fact will encourage those who can to run with it.

i am just checking in to say, Surmounter, i am on the same side of the tacky fence as you.

whoah, what happened there? "generally associates shoe-swallowing with ... sloppy teenage boys and ravers," was most of what I was going to say, I think

whew, horseshoe, i'm glad i'm not alone :D

surmounter + horseshoe = horsemounter

Will have to add that to the vocabulary thread. HORSEMOUNTER (adj.): things that look nice but a bit more "fabulous" than Laurel or Lauren would be likely to enjoy

:D

i'm sorry, i just love it so much: http://www.dlisted.com/node/27714/images/spl43975_003.jpg

oh, god.

http://www.turkishemporium.co.uk/images/HAREMPANTS/HAREMPANTSBLACKsmall.jpg

those jeans are busted seamed with selvage which is more often than not very $$$.

the finish is atrocious though, esp. the way the outseam is totally ribboned up. total no-no.

WHY IS SHE WEARING A SCARF IN AUGUST?

hmm... that outfit is kind of a mash-up of katie and v. beckham , actually. a few preppy chic items, nice but possibly a bit boring/too "old" for her, thrown together with ugly ultra-premium denim and vaguely takcy stilettos.

er, tacky.

haha i love those shoes.

those shoes are a little beckham, yeah

i kinda like it except not the color of the jeans. brings back memories of spending like an hour trying to cuff my jeans properly every time there was dress-down day (eg didn't have to wear uniforms) in middle school.

last night on the train i saw, in real life, a man wearing the jeans rolled up like katie holmes. i had to write this down so i didn't forget bc it was so o_O but he was also wearing dirty white keds (the old school lace up kind, not the slip ons like vans), a keffiyeh, and a vest. also carrying what seemed to be a womens leather tote/purse.

woah.

Was he on his way to work at BAM?

haha laurel, we dress better than that!

(that sounds horrifying btw)

ran the KH pic by some womens denim experts in the office and they said they are the Current/Elliot "Boyfriend" jeans.

love it -- where do you work??

boyfriend jean: http://www.singer22.com/1957boyfriendsuplovdestroy.html

it was really kind of crazy, surm! i wish i could have taken a pic, but it would have been too obvious. i'm still kind of unsettled by it all.

noooo rachel bilson :(

"Boyfriend" jeans, aka the hand-me-downs Levis you stole from your brother for painting the front porch in that cost about $27 at Sears in 1992. Nice work, fashun industry.

Ya retards.