I’m not crazy about the dress, but she can pull if off. As for the second part of your question, it’s probably because they are photographed everywhere they go. Let’s face it, we all have our “what was I thinking” days, but it’s not national news when we do.

Psst… Demi Moore was born in 1962. I think your math is off!

@augustlan Yep, wanted to see who knew her correct age. You are hopelessly hooked to celeb-watching, dear. ;-)

This question is pointing out and urging us to dialogue on celebrity dress and then asks why people do exactly that. I don’t get it.

Actually, I’ve seen much worse! That’s pretty tame compared to most of what the celebs wear. Look at the Olsen twins. They just scream tacky! They look like rag-a-muffins.

Who’s undressing celebs?

I personally don’t care for the dress, especially the color; it is nice & drapey, though, and a perfect style to disguise the flubber we tend to accumulate around the middle.

@ccrow I don’t think Demi even HAS any flubber. :-/

@Dog It’s called a trick question, also known as a “zen.” :-)

@jb – I’d like her to have my fluther, with or without her flubber.

I like draping; always have. Photography, especially that of a paparazzo, can make dresses look bad which would otherwise look good in person.

@NewZen So what you are doing with this question is trying to get people to look shallow if they answer the first part and do not read the full text of your question?

@Dog Hmmm. Actually, I never thought about it – I just asked it. You are reading too much into it – or projecting.

To answer your last question, it’s not a waste of time. Their career is based on what they wear, say, and do.

@Facade GA!

I was expecting something VERY different when I saw you call it a “Potato sack”.
I don’t see what’s so horrible about the dress. Aside from the fact that it actually covers a modest amount of skin.

I’m not the kind of person who pays attention to all of the pop culture celebs.

@Sarcasm I didn’t call it that – it’s from the article. I like it.

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”@Dog It’s called a trick question, also known as a “zen.”*

I am not projecting- I am trying to figure out why you put two questions that contradict one another in the same question to create a “trick question, also known as a ‘zen.’”

However after seeing your last comment, that you really did not think about it, then this question is not devised to trick those who answer. I am good with that.

@Dog My apologies. It really depends whom I’m talking to – eh? Scroll up and you’ll see the context.

It’s a silly article and topic, to me.

Realise – I am the one who has “read and researched” it – thus I am a victim of the same thing – a Groucho Marx situation – where I don’t want to be part of a club that’ll accept me kind of thing.

In any event – no offense.

Apologies big guy.

I remember watching these daytime talk shows for the first time, 13 years ago. One of these crap shows was a “talent” competition of sorts with mostly untalented people being put up for humiliation. After a few horrors, one guy who wanted to be a singer delivered a jaw dropping performance. He was no Luther, but for someone who had never taken a singing class, he was unbelievable. And yet, the audience booed and jeered. The host was baffled and started asking audience members why they booed and one after another they went like “ugh… I don’t know… no, he was great!” and they cheered.

This is basically the same thing happening except in a very profitable industry so no one will hold a mic to their face and ask them why they are such jackasses.

Whats the problem with it? It looks like some Roman toga except a weird color. It’s not bad or extreme and she can pull mostly anything off so go Demi! Plus bonus points for her for us almost having the same name.

Celebrities often pose some interesting questions. For instance, why do these girl’s knees seem to be wearing out more rapidly than the rest of them?

@NewZen It would look better on you.

I’m into fashion and in answer to the first part of your question, I mostly like that dress. I think the designer carried the assymmetry too far with the one arm completely covered and the other arm completely bare and the draping on Demi’s left side (our right) looks too wadded up to be flattering.

Why are they picking on her and why do we care? As @facade said so succinctly, it’s part of the celebrity job description. At least Demi still has an actual career as an actress. I’m more perplexed by the ongoing frenzy over people like Paris Hilton, Demi and Bruce’s daughter Rumer and, yes, at this point, the Olsen twins – when was the last time they actually did anything beside pose for the paparazzi looking bedraggled while wearing incredibly expensive designer garments?. The whole famous for being famous thing escapes me.

@MagsRags I am not picking on her. You haven’t read closely. I am quoting the article and have linked it (maybe you can’t open it. I am also kidding, saying she is 60 – but later in the thread I said I’d have her fluther… it’s just in fun. I am laughing at myself mostly, as I am also inetersted in celebs – not sure why – but what can you do.

Celebrities could save themselves and us so much time if they just quit dressing.

@NewZen No that’s not what Zen is. Not even close.

@NewZen I didn’t say you were picking on her, I was quoting the body of your original question”
Why are they picking on her, and more importantly, why do we waste so much time with what they wear and say and do?
It’s a guilty pleasure for me too. One of my favorite website/blogs is project rungay – I read it every day. It’s two gay guys who started off a couple of years ago doing commentary on Project Runway, and have branched out from there. They’re incredibly witty without being nasty and insightful observers of fashion and to a lesser extent, celebrity.

Oh, ok. Guilty pleasure indeed – actually with me it’s more about the trivia aspect: if I watch a film, I have to know the names of the actors, and then from IMDB I get more info and links… this story was from Yahoo which is my homepage. It was there in my face – and I disagreed with it. I probably flunked (fluther drunk) the question. Sorry.

Demi Moore is just plain beautiful no matter what she wears. Unfortunately my hubby agrees. Argh. Anyhow the dress seems to flatter her.

Having said that I could care less what celebrities wear or do in their personal lives and I think the popular obsession with them is a bit unfounded.

@NewZen , me too! I always have to watch the credits, at least long enough to see the cast. Don’t you hate the speeded up/shrunken split screen credits after movies on TV?

I think she looks great, and I think the dress looks great. Very elegant drape and black pearl colour. Ps she’s not in her 60’s, she’s like 49.

@ccrow www.imdb.com and you’re fixed.

Fashion is pretty far outside my range of interest and expertise. I don’t spend any time dressing or undressing any celebrities or thinking about what they wear, except what I see in magazines of popular culture that I look at in waiting rooms. What seems funny to me is that I can’t detect much of a pattern in which attire draws scathing mockery (like these) and which is extravagantly praised. Usually most of them look pretty weird or stupid to me, and you could swap all the captions around and they would make just as much sense.

I think the main reason fashion writers pick on celebrities is that they know their audience is going to love seeing them get trashed—not all of them, just enough to keep it believable: “Hey, if somebody like Demi Moore and so-and-so (who are some of those people?) can {get picked on for her appearance | look like an idiot in public | have a bad couture day | commit a breach of good taste | blow it big time}, maybe I don’t have it so bad.”

But I don’t happen to think that this particular selection is unattractive. I think the drape is very lovely, classical, and someone with the right figure (such as someone other than me) can get away with that exposed leg. The fact that it is really halves of two dresses, a long-sleeved gown on one side and a sleeveless tunic on the other, makes it kind of interesting.

But I think the color is awful and is indeed just about potato colored. I don’t think there is a more useless color in the world than taupe, not even beige. I think if this had been done in, say, a deep emerald green, it could have been a beauty.

But, as I say, this is an altogether non-fashion-savvy opinion here, so take it for what it’s worth.

@Jeruba is so damn fine.

@NewZen I had no idea what year she was born until I looked it up online. I just knew we were much closer in age than your guess suggested. :)

Also, check out gofugyourself.com. Funny fashion commentary.

@augustlan However did you find that site? It’s hysterical!

I love how the search box is called “FUG ME.”

@NewZen I’ve been checking in on that site for so long I can’t remember how I first came upon it. :)

Gofugyourself is another one of my guilty pleasures, @augustlan

Is it far enough down in the thread for an off-topic? I just wanted to add that @augustlan is one of my guilty pleasures here. Lurve.

Aw, shucks.