Thursday, October 30, 2008

How to dress Betty Suarez

I'm not too thrilled with the wardrobe person on this season of Ugly Betty, because they have Betty dressed so ridiculously. It should be believeable that either a) Betty thinks she looks good, or b) Betty thinks she looks trendy. But this season, with multiple prints and too many colours (and this "too many colours" assessment is coming from someone who is currently wearing pink eyeshadow and purple nail polish with a shirt in one shade of red and lipstick in another shade of red) it's like she's a caricature of a caricature of a caricature.

In previous seasons, she'd wear for example a brightly-coloured dress, but her tights and shoes would be opaque black. With that, the average viewer could at least see where she's coming from. But a blue dress with a hideous-printed bow thing in colours that weren't found elsewhere with bright red tights? No way she thinks that looks good.

So what should she wear? She should wear something that is trendy on paper, but just doesn't work for her. Remember the poncho in the first episode? That's where her clothes should be going. In each episode, she should wear a gaudier, more colourful, misfired knock-off of whatever, say, Amanda was wearing in the previous episode.

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