Bumpin this because i luuuuurve snarking on the fugly fashions on TV :o).
Grammy's Fashion Police - they said Xtina, with her orangeface and greasy fingerwaves looked great? Melissa Rivers even said it was the best they had seen her...Just one more reason why someone else should do this show.
How about Carson (Queer Eye) and Cojo to host this show? Battle of the Divas + Fashion Police = Real Must See TV.
In other news - Joan on "Girlfriends" has some amazing work clothes - professional, but still stylish, funky, and sexy. I covet them. All of them. Actually, just let me loose in the "Girlfriends" wardrobe department...eyes glazing over...

Because it cannot be said enough, Carrie from Sex and the City. She looks like a blind, gay man picked her wardrobe. And speaking of gay men, as many as Carrie knows, you'd think at least one of them, would have enough fashion sense to put her in her place. Horrid. Just, horrid.

Also, Drew from Who's Line Is It Anyway? His suits are terrible and his ties never match. If this is intentional, it needs to stop. Right. Now.

Hah! Don't you mean a blind straight man, Jeebus? I don't think any self-respecting gay man (blind or not) would dream up anything quite that heinous! Then again, considering how Stanford dresses on the show, she's up the creek as far as having someone on hand who can dole out decent fashion advice. You're right, though, at least one of her gay male pals should have the decency to point out her extended, painful-to-watch wardrobe faux pas - maybe that little bee-otch that hangs with Char? He seems to appreciate the more classic fashion approach.

I suspect the contestants on American Idol are subjected to wardrobe consultation by some form of Evil Fashion Nazi (or Tsathoggua's fashion advisor?), because man, some of those outfits? FUG. LEEE. The godawful hats alone make me weep. I've seen quite enough of the midsections of America's Youth; ditto exposed underwear (boxers, briefs, thongs, it's all bad), asscrack-baring lowrise jeans, '70s-disco-inspired polyester disasters, and one-shouldered shirts. Ugh. Maybe I'm just old.

Hee! A blind straight man, on mind altering drugs. That's more like it.

I totally love how "The Sopranos" got Tony and Carmela's clothing perfectly, especially in the first two years. His Rochester Big & Tall and her penchant for multiple gold chains suited them perfectly. You expect the wifebeaters and tracksuits on the rest of his crew, but getting Tony and Carm's clothes right (expensive but slightly tacky) was necessary.

I always hated, loathed and dreaded Sam Malone's creepy multi-toned sweaters on "Cheers." You know, the ones that only athletes seem to wear? A friend said those things can cost a lot of dough--is that true? They are so incredibly ugly.

All of the men on "Alias" wear great suits, but Evil Uncle Arvin gets the best threads of all.

Oh, sweet lord, Buffy from S7 is worst dressed. I can at least respect people in bizarre bright clothing, because it takes guts to wear it, but her clothes were ill-fitting and neutral colored. Remember her black dress w/ jeans combo from First Date that they showed her wearing at a fancy restaurant. Plus her bulky sweater, jean jacket, black ruffly skirt and boots from the one where she goes back to when the first watcher was created. The outfit she was wearing during the fight in Chosen? Yuck- her wardrobe just made her look eitherskinnier than she already was, oddly lumpy, or made her blend into the background. In S7, They not only sucked the life out of the character, they sucked the life out of her clothes! Where'd the mini-skirts and colorful clothes of years past go?
Honorable mention: Spike-give the man another outfit for Chrissakes!
Best Dressed:
Angel-The duster and leather pants. They should get their own spot in the credits.
Wes and Gunn are also pretty nice, but they need to be in leather pants more.
Conan O'Brien- I love his suits, they're well fitted and fit his persona well.
Mike Nelson and Joel Robinson- They wear those overalls/jumpsuits (I can't remember what the hell they're called) very well.

Remember Robert Conrad in The Wild Wild West? As Jim West, he always wore these tight-fitting, Spanish-style Western suits. You need the right framework to carry them - fortunately, Conrad had it. No doubt he was the hottest govt. employee of the whole Grant Administration.

Writing as my 7th grade self, the clothes on "Full House" are rad! I wish my bangs would stand up as high as D.J.'s. I wish my mom would buy me lowtop cowboy boots and cropped jackets with HUGE shoulder pads. My life is so unfair.

Writing as my 29 year old self, I wish I owned most of Rachel's wardrobe from "Friends." Of course, if my body looked like hers, that would also be excellent.

Oh Bob, totally Sark (okay, and Vaughn, too). David Anders knows how to work those suits, and even the casual stuff when they headed in that direction (although I'd like to see the suits again, please, preyty please, TPTB?). The guy is always immaculately dressed (although despite appreciating the clothes, the Haremites would still very much like for him to remove them *cough* if you know what I mean...). I've never seen him wear a damn thing I didn't like.

Mmmm, brocaded velvet vests! I remember my mom was kind of hot for him, and as I got older I could see why! He always had some specious excuse to take his shirt off, and those pants were beyond tight.


Coveralls! Joel started wearing short-legged ones at some point. Very fashionable with the Doc Martins.

I would love, LOVE to see this! Joan, Melissa and their cronies need to die already.



Sadly, they're half right. Xtina looked completely ridiculous, yet it IS the best she's looked in a long time.

Maybe I was dreaming, but I think I spotted Wayne Scott Lucas (formerly of What Not to Wear) on E! or VH1, where he was identified as Justin Timberlake's stylist. Guess he's responsible for Justin's "wardrobe malfunctions." Hee!
Topic? I know the TV version of Clueless was built around wardrobe, but I still enjoyed seeing the outfits. And for clothing that fit the show, Dynasty was a classic. Remember those huge shoulder pads?

[karen walker] What's this? What're you doing? Honey, what's going on here? [/kw]

Nikki Cox on Las Vegas. Her blouses, or the lack thereof, are the most craptacular fashion don't. The show's stylist must really hate her. Her sagging boobage gets more criticism in the LV thread than any cheesy hole-ridden plotline the writers could ever throw our way.

In the end, I used to watch Melrose and 90210 just for the wardrobe, which I tought were good.

I love 24, but they really have made bad clothing choices. And what every choice they make has to stick for the whole season, since it all takes place in one day.

Mrs. Roper was the embodiment of bad dressing. Skinny woman in huge, ugly floral patterned mu mus.

Accented with huge, neon-colored, plastic jewelry. She and Don Knotts could blind someone with all those fashion no-nos.

The entire cast of "Mama's Family," from Vicki Lawrence on down, was a deplorable act against humanity. Dorothy Loudon as the skanky daughter in law.... great actress, but criminal wardrobe.

OTOH, Carol Burnett's curtain dress in the classic "GWTW" skit on her show remains to this day as one of the greatest examples of TV costuming ever.

Oh hell, I have an aunt that dresses exactly like Mrs. Roper, with the bad perm to boot. But the look really wouldn't be complete, without some horribly unattractive, orange/pink shade of lipstick, and some tacky plastic jewelry. Which coincidently, my aunt also sports.

Also, I nominate Spike. Take that fucking duster off! Right now, mister!

Speaking of horrid lipstick, Paige's makes my tv cry. Seriously, when I watch Charmed, her lipstick is so brightly red/orange that the color on my television can't handle it and the picture pulses and bleeds (just like my eyes). It's even more unflattering the lighter her hair gets. On the plus side, it does distract me from the heinous clothing (and plots).

I thought that only happened on my TV, Shelwood. Those colors are super-ultra-vivid, and don't suit her at ALL. Totally hurts my eyes to look at her.
My little sister (a Charmed fanatic) was staying with me for a while last summer, and the first time I watched that show with her, all I could think of was "what have they done to poor Rose McGowan and why does the makeup artist on this show hate her so much?" Heh.

Another woman who's apparrently killed the puppies and mugged the grandmas of every makeup artist in LA? Emily Procter. She's always got harsh makeup...on occasion, she looks like a blow-up sex doll with the dark eyeliner, slashes of rouge and super-bright red lips. Yikes.

Totally going with Andrea Parker as best on The Pretender and still pretty darn good on Less Than Perfect...she is so my girl crush! That woman is all kinds of hot! Especially as Miss Parker!

Best male, I'd say Will Truman. Nice wardrobe there and nice bod to match!

So true. I have an irrational fear of orange lipstick, so I must stay from your aunt Jeebus Cripes.

Do we need a separate makeup and hair thread?

It is not just your tv. I love Paige but Eilish just seem to go out of her way to dress Rose in hideous outfits and that awful lipstick. She does the same with Alyssa. I just pray that she doesn't get her hands on Holly.

Well, I wouldn't call that irrational at all, raramama. Orange lipstick is wicked and not of The Lord. Speaking of which, do I even need to mention Tammy Faye Messner on this thread? An abomination against anything and everything holy. In fact, let's just throw in every evangelist that ever dared show their face on a T.V. screen. Is their some unwritten law that states: The holier thou are, the worse thou shall dress? I'm talking head to feet here people. Bad hair/wigs. Bad wardrobe. Bad all around.

Edited because her name is Tammy Faye Messner, not Baker. Just thinking about that woman has clearly warped my mind.

There's that one lady evangelist on Trinity Bible Network (TBN) with light purple hair and matching eyeshadow. And coordinating outfits. I couldn't make her up, my imagination is not that good. I don't know her name or show because I click away too fast.

You mean Jan Crouch? That woman's hair and makeup is so extreme she makes Tammy Faye look positively fresh-scrubbed and demure in her fashion choices! The first time I saw her, I thought the tint on my TV had gone all wonky...but no, the woman's hair really IS purple. She is clearly someone who subscribes to the old country music adage "the higher the hair, the closer to God."

How anyone can look at her and take her seriously enough to send money to her ministry is beyond me. The money she spends on mascara and hair dye might be better spent feeding the entire starving population of a Third World country, surely? Freak!

I always thought Jan's hair was pink. Because she wears pink suede boots to match. But of course, my tint adjustment could just be off. That woman is hi-larious.

Actually, we're all correct! Jan's hair has undergone many incarnations over the years: purple, lavender, pink, silver-gray, white, silver with purple highlights, silver with pink highlights, purple-gray, pink-gray, lavender with a fuschia tint, mauve...it's a festival of Wrong Hair Color goin' on up there with Jan. If I'm not mistaken (haven't seen her in a few years now), she's always emphasized whatever tint her hair is at a particular time by matching her outfit and shoes and nails to the hair/wig (please, God, let it be a wig...real hair can't possibly put up with that kind of abuse, can it?).

Y'know, I've never in my life seen anyone in real life whose hair and makeup and outfits are so consistently over the top. And that includes the years I lived in London and saw punks every day and the years I lived in a crappy urban neighborhood and saw hookers every day. She's the female fashion equivalent of an Elvis jumpsuit.

Wacky stalker neighbor Rose on Two & a Half Men dresses so awful. I, too, cannot stand Carrie Bradshaw's creations on SATC, but Rose just looks insane.

I've always loved Phoebe's wardrobe on Friends, especially in the later seasons. She always wear bright, fun colors, pretty jewelry and hair accessories, and those cute, hippieish purses. Plus, her look is a nice antidote to Rachel and Monica's boring neutrals.

Other wardrobes I love:

Conan O'Brien's suits: They're conservative but fun, and as one poster commented, they fit him just perfectly.

Kyra on Reba: Sort of a girly punk look, and her clothes always look comfortable.

Angel in the episode of "Halloween" on Buffy He wore this incredible white shirt that was unbuttoned really low. Most people hate this look, but I think on certain men it looks extremely sexy. Plus, DB looks better in white than black.

Wardrobes I hate:

Jack on Will & Grace: His clothes are too damn tight, and he seems to always wear the same baby blue sweater over and over. I don't like Karen's wardrobe either for some reason.

Tara on Buffy: Poor Amber Benson can't be larger than a lousy size 8, yet they insisted on dressing her in these god-awful circus tents passing as clothes.

Bridget on 8 Simple Rules...: I hate jailbait chic. Hate it.

Naomi on Mama's Family: Always the same hideous, off the shoulder yellow dress. Makes you wonder if it was ever washed.

Regis Philbin's Who Wants to be a Millionaire monochromatic suits: I found that look strangely pimp-like, and Regis is way too old to dress that way.

BWAH!!! I had completely forgotten about this woman when I made the evangelist comment. She is by far the worst of the worst! And not to stray too far off topic, but the incredibly gaudy gold furniture and decor of the room in which she preaches!!! Ahhhh!!! My eyes! Such a decadent display. That's supposed to convince me to send my hard earned money.... suuuuuuuure.

I can't believe my first post after being a loooong-time lurker isn't in the Commercial Thread, but I have to say this:

Best Dressed: CJ Cregg on West Wing always looks so elegant, stylish, and professional. It doesn't hurt that Allison Janney could probably wear just about anything and look great, but in casual or work clothes, she's wonderful, and in evening wear, she's stunning.

Quirkiest: Frohike on X-Files/Lone Gunmen. Vests (especially early on, he wore some really strange vests), fingerless gloves (sometimes leather, but sometimes just regular knit gloves with the fingers cut off), tons of leather . . . but Tom Braidwood pulled it off. On Frohike, it worked, and it worked well.

Al on Quantum Leap should be mentioned somewhere in here. Wow. Just wow.

Leo McGarry's/John Spencer's suits on The West Wing and Lindsey McDonald's/Christian Kane's suits on Angel are so gorgeous and they wear them so well that sometimes I can't hear the dialogue because I'm overwhelmed by the pretty. Lilah Montgomery's/Stephanie Romanov's work clothes are gorgeous too, and far better suited for a professional environment than anything on the girl-children playing dress-up in the fifth season.

Lane Davies is soap opera royalty, so I'm glad that he gets to keep his $5000(?) Ralph Lauren coat from playing Cameron Lewis on General Hospital. He wears that coat like an ermine cloak, which no milksop male model can manage even after looking up "ermine" in that "word-definition thing-y."

The worst things are his too-short pants with the white shoes. It's painful.

Yes. I'm a huge fan of black, but it just isn't his color. It's sad how they dress him. He wore a pink button-down shirt on one episode this year and I thought "oh yeah, he is an attractive man, I forgot."

On the other hand...

Hee. I saw that show as a little kid and I didn't get that his wardrobe was sort of a joke... I just thought that people dress that way in the future.

I have to agree about CJ on The West Wing and Lilah on Angel. Maybe just because I look so silly whenever I try to wear a suit, but I'm really impressed with those two. Don't know if it's the wardrobe department or the actors' carriage or both, but damn they look good.

Best Girls: Rory on Gilmore Girls. I'm not a huge fan of Lorelai's clothes, but I've been digging Rory's sweaters and skirts so far this season. Also she's worn at least two tops this season that I own, so I guess I must be doing something right.

Carol on Ed. I love (or should I say "loved?") her outfits! The colors are so nice and bright, and they're all really sweet in a retro sort of way. I especially liked the pink coat she wore this and last season. I want it.

Anya on Buffy, around season 6 and early season 7, when she was dressing in her retro outfits. Some of them were bad, but the majority I think looked really cool.

Best guy: Seth Cohen on The O.C. Although he could probably wear a potato sack and I'd think it'd look great. But seriously, why can't every guy dress like him?

Worst in recent memory: Marissa's "fancy" dresses on The O.C. and Anna any time at all on The O.C. ::shudder:: In the TV Guide this week they said a lot of fans have been dressing like Anna. Why, God, why? And her hair and make-up? Ugh...

Joan Rivers. Joan. Fucking. Rivers. I can't believe this woman hosts a show called Fashion Police. Unfuckingreal. It's on E! right now, and as I type, the woman's neck is being strangled by some off-putting, black beaded choker/neck brace. It looks like an implement of torture. Aside from that, she's actually dressed all in black, in an outfit that's not making the baby Jesus weep for once. Or Mel Gibson for that matter.

And even though it's been hammered to death already... Uma Thurman - Academy Awards. That is all.

Diane Keaton, Academy Awards. Who knew she loved Charlie Chaplin so much?

Diane Keaton actually ran up to Joan Rivers this year and said, "I didn't want to talk to you at the Golden Globes b/c I was afraid of what you would say about my outfit then!" Uh, what about this year?

Her running up to meet Joan must have done some good, because Joan didn't slam her on the Fashion Police. She said they've mended fences or somesuch. Apparently, it doesn't matter how god awful you dress, just as long as you kiss Joan's ass, your A-OK.

Diane Keaton borrowed Johnny Depp's outfit from the Golden Globes a few weeks ago. I'm just sayin.

Eilish from Charmed definitely needs to be fired. So far, the only member of the Charmed cast who has been reasonable safe is Holly Marie Combs.

I really coveted most of Rachel's (from Friends) wardrobe (along with about 100 million other women). That black dress with flowers (the male stripper episode) was absolutely gorgeous.

I have to add my name to the list of haters of Carrie Bradshaw's wardrobe on Sex and The City.

I know Carrie's outfits are supposed to be whimsical, but damn! Maybe Pat Field was trying to show how wacky and annoying Carrie could be through her clothes, but was it necessary? Didn't a lot of Carrie's actions scream wacky and annoying all by themselves?

The shame is that occasionally, Carrie did look great. But for the most part, it was a travesty what Pat Field sometimes dredged up - over-accesorized, clashing colors, tops that had nothing to do with the bottoms, the wrong shoes for the outfit, etc. I don't mind someone dressing with their own sense of style, and making some quirky choices, but a lot of Carrie's outfits distracted from the scenes with their sheer hideousness or bad taste.

And to think that SJP collaborated with Pat Fields on some of these fashion horrors just boggles the mind. It seems no fashion crime was too grotesque for this duo to inflict upon the viewers. They mostly wasted the fact that SJP has a great figure and the fact that they had such a wide choice of clothing from which to choose. The other women on the show looked great most of the time - why couldn't Carrie?

If I have to look at Debra Messing's bony chest one more time on Will & Grace I'm gonna puke. She can be really pretty when she wants to be, and I love the hair, but she won't accept that she has no boobs and she keeps wearing these low-cut outfits that look awful on her.

Word on the Joan Rivers hate. She's like a solar eclipse, you can't look directly at her or you'll go blind. And she's had so much plastic surgery that she looks like she's wearing a six inch mask on her face and she's trying to peer out from behind it.

The scary thing? Her daughter looks exactly like her - can she have had that much plastic surgery already?

Reine TV, ITA on the Debra Messing stuff. She either wears something cut down to her navel or she wears those big caftan tops so she's swimming in fabric. And way to many accessories.

Don’t forget about Daisy & her dowdy clothes and Rose’s frillies. Of course, we never really get to see Violet, who is supposed to be the classy one.

Most creative use of a spandex tube: Survivor. A bandanna, a tube top, a hair tie.

Absolute best dresser on screen is Dr. Christian Troy aka Julian McMahon. All the best designers, and the man can wear them well.


He now shows up occasionally on Style Court. I didn’t recognize him at first because his hair is one color and shorter. He really did need a makeover.

Best dressed; Buffy from BTVS in the earlier seasons. She had a versatile
wardrobe. mini skirts, leather pants, army green kakhi's, hodies, pink shirts. She
pulled most of it off quite nicely. She alternated between girly and casual clothes.

Ryan from the O.C.- I like the wrist cuffs the wife beaters and the hoodies, it suits
him.

Angel from Angel and BTVS- The nice dress shirts and the cool coats. I actually liked him better in black.Maybe just cause dark colours suit his character.

Kyra from Reba- I totally agree with whoever mentioned her. I like clothes that
are comfortable and fashionable.

Worst- Jack from Will and Grace- Someone pointed out his annoying white shoes.
I am glad I am not the only one who noticed that.

I have to go with a few oldies but goodies.

AnnMarie from That Girl, heck a lot of her outfits would still be in fashion today.
Mrs. Peel from The Avengers, she wore leather pantsuits like nobody's business.

On to current shows I would agree with CJ from The West Wing and I really like the clothes worn by most of the cast from Everwood...hey you can't go wrong with LL Bean :D.

Wordy mcword on that, blocked writer. I've got to jump on the hate-train for Carrie Bradshaw's wardrobe from Sex and the City as well. There were times I completely forgot to listen to the dialogue because my eyes were blinded by the horror of Carrie's outfits. It was as if she got up in the mornings, put on a blindfold, and then rummaged around for 5 or 6 random things to put on. While sometimes the horror came from the way different pieces were combined, some of the choices were hideous by themselves. In the epi where Miranda ends up going into labor, Carrie has on a pair of Christian Louboutins that she had admired in a window. Those shoes - OMG, they looked as if someone had taken a perfectly good pair of shoes and then let a mimosa tree shed all over them. I was soooo relieved that they were ruined when Miranda's water broke. At least in the recaps of the show, her outfits routinely got snarked on, which made up a little for having been scarred for life by seeing them.

Ugh, Marissa from The O.C.!
For someone who's supposed to be this great beauty with a model's body they certainly put her in some fug outfits. They don't want her to be taller than Ryan, so they put her in these bright colored flat pumps that don't even go with the rest of the outfit. If she must be in a flat shoe, put her in some cute sandals, flip-flops, or sneakers.
And early in the season the show also made the common teen-show mistake of every girl must wear a miniskirt to school every day. They can show just as much leg (if not more) in shorts.
I'm not even going to get into her dressy outfits, or I'd be here half the day.

PostToastie, I read an interview with Melissa Rivers about what she does to "prep" for the red carpet, which included Botox shots in her face.


I freely admit that my mantra when shopping for work clothes is: "Would C.J. Cregg wear this?"