Greatest dress at Oscars!

anneshirley
anneshirley Member Posts: 1,110
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
Greatest dress at Oscars!
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  • anneshirley
    anneshirley Member Posts: 1,110
    edited March 2008

    I loved Helen Mirren and Ruby Dee--thought they both looked terrific last night.  I'm showing my age, but I love seeing someone my age (Mirren) and someone quite a bit older (Dee) looking great.  I was disappointed that Ruby Dee didn't win supporting, as I don't think she has that many opportunities left.  She's also a wonderful actor.

    I thought the woman who did win supporting (I don't remember her name and can't remember ever seeing her in anything, although my husband has and he says she's excellent) but I thought she and Jennifer Hudson were the worst dressed. 

    Do women really want to be as skinny as some of them are?  I don't follow these things so I don't know the name of the woman with her hair up (brownish), grayish strapless dress with necklace, striking poses all night, who had absolutely no flesh on her bones.  When I graduated from high school I was 5'9" tall and 117 pounds, and I spent the next ten years on diets trying to gain weight.  I'd buy bathing suits with skirts to make myself look fatter.  I just can't imagine that any of them really think that being that skinny looks good!

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  • LisaSDCA
    LisaSDCA Member Posts: 2,230
    edited February 2008

    I thought Dame Helen Mirren had THE Dress of the night and she wore it with such style and finesse. Her natural grace and beauty  make all those 20-something Botox-ed and siliconed rib-thin starlets look like they are simply trying too hard.

    JMHO, of course.Wink

    Lisa

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  • saluki
    saluki Member Posts: 2,287
    edited February 2008

    Felt the same way --Helen Mirren looked stunning. Katherine Heigle looked lovely as well.  I did not know they were dressed in red because of heart disease awareness.---Was a damn flattering color for them.

    Jennifer Hudson had an odd dress last year too if I remember right.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2008

    Jennifer Hudson's dresses (last year's and this) were made of jersey. Beautiful fabric and comfy, but her dress this year was not my style. 

    Loved Helen Mirren! 

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  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 4,484
    edited February 2008

    Loved Helen Mirren too!  Her hair was so gorgeous -- matched the sleeves of her dress!

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  • abbadoodles
    abbadoodles Member Posts: 2,618
    edited February 2008

    Gadzooks, some of those skinny women look like cadavers.  Not attractive at all.  Most men agree, too, BUT to each his own. 

    Helen Mirren and Katherine Heigle (did not know who she was before seeing her in that dress) looked more than fabulous.

    That one in the black plastic bag with no color and no makeup looked like death warmed over.  So, not everyone is beautiful.  Maybe that's her message.  Why even try?  Again, to each his own.  Don't shoot me, it's only my opinion. Wink  You get what you pay for.

    Tina

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2008

    Red is my favorite color to wear and I've almost never seen anyone look bad in it, so I agree that Katherine Heigl was gorgeous, as was Anne Hathaway. Helen Mirren, to me, always looks amazing! But my vote for the most beautiful dress goes to Cameron Diaz.....the pale pink and the lines suited her perfectly! She doesn't have the greatest figure (it's so straight!), but she looked almost curvaceous in that dress!

    ~Marin

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2008

    Marin, my only problem with Cameron Diaz is that she looks amazing but almost never does anything nice with her hair.  To ME, it looks like she gets makeup and jewelry, a nice dress, plops the hair in a pony and hops in a limo out the door. 

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  • gracejon
    gracejon Member Posts: 972
    edited February 2008

    Loved Katherine Hiegel but Jennifer Gardner had a winner also along with Renee Zellweger and Hillary Swank.  Hated the Hiedi Klum hair and winged collar.  Reminded me of the dracula cape.  My favorite is a toss up between Renee and Katherine.  My hubby can not understand why I watch toi see clothes 

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  • drw
    drw Member Posts: 2,447
    edited February 2008





    gracejon-i agree. renee zellweger's was my favorite. apparently, she has an agreement with carolina herrerra where she is the only one at awards shows to wear her dresses. i also loved the other 3 that u mentioned.

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  • abbadoodles
    abbadoodles Member Posts: 2,618
    edited February 2008

    Wow, just saw the pix of Renee in the silver.  WOW!  Now, THAT is glamour.

    Tina

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