Let me just first say that my standards for women with really nice figures and large bank accounts are high - sky high - because these ladies have absolutely no excuse when it comes to picking out stylish, figure-flattering ensembles. They have at their fingertips, after all, everything from Ann Taylor knits to vintage steals to J Brand jeans to Mint jackets to Botkier handbags to Bruno Frisoni heels to pretty much anything and everything that prances its way down the Ready-to-Wear runway each Spring and Fall.
That being so, let's take a look at what Jamie-Lynn
Sigler was wearing last Sunday at the debut of the
LORAC/Miss
Davenporte makeup collaboration, "Showstopper Palette," at the Chateau
Marmont. Her
ruffle-neck top by Geren Ford might look familiar to you, if you're a regular
ASJiNE reader
. I love this top. Like,
really really love it. It has plunging drama in the front,
racerback drama in the back, sweet ruffle detailing around the neck and comes in a neutral color made from a luxurious, lightweight fabric. In a word, perfect.
But unfortunately for Jamie-Lynn (and for me, because looking at her in this picture is physically painful), everything from the waist-down is not so perfect. Not nearly.
The jeans and shoes, Genetic Denim and Costume National though they may respectively be, do not nice complements to this blouse make. The wash of the skinny jeans is too light, which not only makes for an oddly too-casual match for her top but does little to flatter her stunning figure; I'd have gone with the same super-slim style (the shapelessness of the bottom half of the blouse demands it) but either in a much
darker indigo, a
traditional black or a contrasting
red or
grey.
Then we have those shoes, which to be frank, are downright ugly. I know, I know, the boot-pump hybrid is likely to be this Fall's footwear of choice for everyone from
Chloë Sevigny to Kate Moss to eventually Eva
Longoria and Carmen Electra, but still, from this style-conscious woman's vantage point, Jamie-Lynn would have been much better off with a sweet round-toed pump like
this or
this that would have picked up the "girly" in the ruffled neck of her blouse.
A harsh critique for a relatively inoffensive outfit, I realize, but when you pick up and wear one of my wishlist items, you put yourself in an entirely new stratosphere of expectation.
If I can't have it, then you better wear it flawlessly.
