They’re vamping as if they just stepped out of a time machine and into a flashbulb-popping, klieglight-strafing premiere at a grand and now sadly gone RKO movie palace.
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In real life, head-to-toe styling that evokes Old Hollywood screams overkill, so don’t try this at home.
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
But for these women, it’s as much a performance as singing for your supper. So let the crowd roar.
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Why go mod when you can go modern?
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It’s no longer novel when a young actress reinterprets what it means to get all dressed up by rejecting the standard big-night-out silhouette for structure and shapes that are freer, easier, not as overt, yet
equally flattering.
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By making the unexpected less unexpected, these women generate as much of a fresh breeze as they do a photo op.
Lisa O'Connor
Friends, Lovers, Countrywomen! ’Tis nobler to express your inner Austen-stoked dreaminess than to suffer, for there are now ways to do it without looking as if you escaped from a sachet drawer.
Janet Gough/Celebrity
Captured in simple forms and contours, the ruffles,
ruches and lace insets that whisper romanticism can eschew costume drama for a refreshing loveliness. Just leave off the locket.
Janet Gough/Celebrity
Banish brocade, tear off the tiers, and bag the ball gown.
Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
Why retie a ribbon, straighten a bow or fluff a
crinoline when you can step into something sleeker than a whippet with a summer haircut?
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There are no pleats to adjust, no big skirt to step on, no cumbersome train to practice kicking. And if you’ve done Pilates with diligence and avoided that cheesecake, well, ain’t you the lucky one!
Jane West/INF Goff
“Hey, Guys! Over Here!” Since looking good is no longer enough to get noticed, one must consider the merits of sticking one’s neck—or something—out.
Marsland/INF Goff
One approach remains stunningly effective—taking a plunge.
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However, Charlize’s daring is a stylistic one: Love it or not, her gown is graphic, original and, on her 6-foot-plus-in-heels frame, in proportion. She was riveting. (OK, you had to be there.)
Janet Gough/Celebrity
One heartening evolution is women reveling (sartorially) in their age.
Sara De Boer/Retna
How welcome is the ingénue neither overwhelmed in fabric nor upstaged by carats.
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What a pleasure to see the shapely one embracing her arcs; the all-grown-up trusting sleek confidence over divatronics; and the mature woman who knows choosing tailored simplicity no longer means she’ll be ignored.
Jane West/INF Goff
In Hollywood timing is everything. You wouldn’t open a serious movie over the Fourth of July weekend.
Dave Allocca/Startraks
If your preview has Oscar buzz, you hold it till Christmas. Any of these dresses would get lost in the shuffle on Oscar night.
Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
But at an indie première, a
press luncheon or an event promoting someone else, they exhibit enough graceful restraint to make photographers strain to get the shot.
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Retro Glamour
They’re vamping as if they just stepped out of a time machine and into a flashbulb-popping, klieglight-strafing premiere at a grand and now sadly gone RKO movie palace.
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Retro Glamour
In real life, head-to-toe styling that evokes Old Hollywood screams overkill, so don’t try this at home.
Retro Glamour
But for these women, it’s as much a performance as singing for your supper. So let the crowd roar.
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Forward Thinkers
It’s no longer novel when a young actress reinterprets what it means to get all dressed up by rejecting the standard big-night-out silhouette for structure and shapes that are freer, easier, not as overt, yet
equally flattering.
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Forward Thinkers
By making the unexpected less unexpected, these women generate as much of a fresh breeze as they do a photo op.
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Such Romantics
Friends, Lovers, Countrywomen! ’Tis nobler to express your inner Austen-stoked dreaminess than to suffer, for there are now ways to do it without looking as if you escaped from a sachet drawer.
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Such Romantics
Captured in simple forms and contours, the ruffles,
ruches and lace insets that whisper romanticism can eschew costume drama for a refreshing loveliness. Just leave off the locket.
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Minimalist to the Max
Why retie a ribbon, straighten a bow or fluff a
crinoline when you can step into something sleeker than a whippet with a summer haircut?
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Minimalist to the Max
There are no pleats to adjust, no big skirt to step on, no cumbersome train to practice kicking. And if you’ve done Pilates with diligence and avoided that cheesecake, well, ain’t you the lucky one!
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Worth the Risk
“Hey, Guys! Over Here!” Since looking good is no longer enough to get noticed, one must consider the merits of sticking one’s neck—or something—out.
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Worth the Risk
However, Charlize’s daring is a stylistic one: Love it or not, her gown is graphic, original and, on her 6-foot-plus-in-heels frame, in proportion. She was riveting. (OK, you had to be there.)
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Best at Any Age
What a pleasure to see the shapely one embracing her arcs; the all-grown-up trusting sleek confidence over divatronics; and the mature woman who knows choosing tailored simplicity no longer means she’ll be ignored.
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Perfectly Dressed
In Hollywood timing is everything. You wouldn’t open a serious movie over the Fourth of July weekend.
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Perfectly Dressed
If your preview has Oscar buzz, you hold it till Christmas. Any of these dresses would get lost in the shuffle on Oscar night.
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