More Than Meets the Eye (The Post get's their controversial prom dress on backwards?)

Wizbang ^ | 1/25/2005 | Wizbang

[anonymous_user]

Yesterday's item noting this seasons hot prom dress piqued readers interest. One Wizbang reader went the extra mile and checked out the manufacturer's prom dress line and found that the Post got the story backward - literally.

[Petronski]

[Petronski]

Oh my. The Post put it on backwards. LOL

[TheBigB]

Update: The Post responds. I've been contacted by the photo editors on the story who have assured me that the model was NOT wearing the dress backward.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Looks like an old piece of wardrobe from one of the original Star Trek episodes...

[eyespysomething]

Doesn't make it any better IMO.

[mhking]

I still wouldn't let my daughter out of the house in that thing.

Four pair of long overalls. Until she's at least 30.

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[anonymous_user]

The Post responds.

Yeah, but look at the picture. It's about as obvious as a ^th on a 1960s typewriter.

[cyborg]

It's still skimpy and inappropriate. I thought it was on correctly with what the sluts are wearing these days.

[TheBigB]

Seemingly, I'll admit.

[Modernman]

I wouldn't let my daughters wear this, but I would certainly be in favor of a girl I was dating wearing it.

Especially if she had the body for it.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Okay...by turning the dress around they have removed the visible undercleavage, and side cleavage...but a pretty young thing could still fall out of the deep 'v'. Way too much skin showing for a HS prom...

Does anybody else see this style as remeniscent of the old Bob Mackie designs for Cher? Some plumes in her hair, and this chick could break into 'Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves' at any minute...

[cyborg]

That model doesn't look sixteen to me. Exactly how big are a sixteen year old's boobs to be filling out that thing anyway?

[pissant]

Well Here is Selma Hayak sporting the latest Prom look:

[Just another Joe]

Oh, I don't know. It could be on correctly,
You can't see the sides on the post picture so I can't really tell.

There weren't any "prom dresses" like that in my day.
"porn dresses" - maybe.

[Petronski]

It's nasty either way. That's why I think it's so funny. It's a very slutty dress even when put on properly, so why push the issue by doing it backwards?

Other than all that, it's also a very ugly dress.

[Voss]

Exactly--it looks like something a woman on a 1970s variety show would have worn, so I find it fun in a retro way. But fun for grownups, not high schoolers.

[Petronski]

...and this chick could break into 'Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves' at any minute...

Oh great. Now I'm gonna have THAT stuck in my head. Sheesh.

[anonymous_user]

Well Here is Selma Hayak

Surprised she wore a bra. How stuffy. *rimshot*

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I live to serve...

[TheBigB]

Hey, that's a GREAT song! :^)

*snicker*

[Jhensy]

Yawn, thoroughly debunked. Wizbang is full of it. This photo is from the company's actual catalogue... one of many examples.

What the hell is Wizbang, anyway?

[Petronski]

I'd post a revenge song, but in all the snow, I think you've suffered enough. ;O)

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I thought maybe it was digitally altered...not an undergarment...

[PennsylvaniaMom]

You are too kind...LOL

[retrokitten]

From that picture I would definitely say she has been "altered". ;-)

[kaylar]

From the website selling this gown, here are the sizes it's offered in. And it comes in red, black, and cornflower-imagine a size 30 in red :

Xcite / Xcite Xtreme Size Chart

Size	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	20	22	24	26	28	30
Bust	33	34	35	36	37	38	39.5	41	43	45	47.5	50	52.5	55.5	58.5
Waist	24.5	25.5	26.5	27.5	28.5	29.5	31	32.5	35	37.5	40	42.5	45	48	51
Hips	36	37	38	39	40	41	42.5	44	46	48	50.5	53	56	59	62

[anonymous_user]

Yawn, thoroughly debunked. Wizbang is full of it.

Well in one of these pictures, the model is wearing the dress backwards. The pattern below the waist is the same front or back, so it seems. I'm thinking the catalog people might have got it backwards too.

I'm no fashion designer, but don't you think the triangle things would go in FRONT and the strap-like things in BACK like every other female garment in history?

[MRMEAN]

[PennsylvaniaMom]

The cantalop look...a dead giveaway. No pun intended (honest) but it bursts so many male FReepers' bubbles, but the vast majority of what Hollywood offers these days are implants.

[anonymous_user]

Size 30 in that dress?

Aahh-aah. Ohhh. Oooooh! *shudder*

[kaylar]

It's small, but it looks like the straps are meant to go more than one way. Back over the shoulders or crossed.

Still pretty unflattering and I can't imagine any venue, even an adult one, where a woman wouldn't be sneered at for wearing this in public.

[kaylar]

My sentiments exactly-and you know it's gonna happen.

[retrokitten]

I don't think most of the men care- real or not. At first I thought that picture was Demi "You too can look like this for $40,000" Moore.

I just don't get cosmetic surgery. I can see having a mole (benign) removed or something very, very minor, but I just can't imagine going through all that just took look younger or have a gigantic chest or shave 1/16 of an inch off a chin.

In the check-out line at the grocery store I saw that Demi Moore wanted to have her knees lifted because she thought they looked saggy. If someone is concerned about their knees looking old- it's not their knees that need examining.

[retrokitten]

Well, it did say "Xtreme" sizes! LOL!! I can't imagine how someone who wears a size 30 would STAY IN that dress.

Just because they make it in those sizes doesn't mean it's appropriate to wear in those sizes. I guess it's not really appropriate to wear in any size, but you know what I mean.

[Mr. K]

And they are pulling a CBS too! (denying their error in the face of absolute proof)

"We stand by our report"

[Mr. K]

"The cantalop look...a dead giveaway. No pun intended (honest) but it bursts so many male FReepers' bubbles, but the vast majority of what Hollywood offers these days are implants."

I think I speak for many guys when I say: WHO CARES When something makes you say "What a set of winnebagos!" you really dont mind if they are fake

[JLO]

"Yawn, thoroughly debunked. Wizbang is full of it. This photo is from the company's actual catalogue... one of many examples.

What the hell is Wizbang, anyway?"
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Wizbang is apparently a blog. If you read in the comments there, quoted below, here's the scoop. I saw it on TV also this am, like the below Wizbang poster wrote.


"If any of you had watched Katie Couric on NBC this morning you would know that M.Kyle is exactly right. Katie interviewed the designer of the dress. He explicitly explained how a model at one of the fashion shows accidentally put the dress on backwards and wore it down the runway like that. Immediately afterwards, sales for the dress skyrocketed. It is now one of his top ten selling dresses. BTW, Katie was her usual annoying self and practically verbally attacked the guy for promoting and selling the dress even though it is so popular.
Posted by: Windstar at January 25, 2005 01:17 PM "

[Jhensy]

And they are pulling a CBS too! (denying their error in the face of absolute proof)

THE COMPANY MARKETS BOTH VERSIONS. THE 'BACKWARDS" VERSION IS THEIR HOT SELLER, THUS THE FEATURE STORY IN THE POST. SEE THE ABOVE PICTURE.

That great bastion of journalistic integrity --Wizbang --is the CBS here, not the NY Post.

[Jhensy]

That is an accurate description of events.

[ShadowDancer]

God, it's skanky either way. Then again, we still wore hoops under our prom dresses when I was in school so I'm probably not a great judge of fashion.

[jocon307]

LOL, for pete's sake, we said it looked backwards yesterday.

[TheBigB]

I mean, it's a sexy dress. But it looks more like something that J-Lo would wear at a movie premiere. IMHO it's not suitable for a high school prom.

[jocon307]

"I wouldn't let my daughters wear this, but I would certainly be in favor of a girl I was dating wearing it."

This is why men's heads explode when they have teenage daughters.

For the record: I wouldn't let my daughter wear this to a prom, but for an older gal for a New Year's Party or somesuch it's not too bad. Provided you put it on correctly, of course!

[Annie03]

Looks like an old piece of wardrobe from one of the original Star Trek episodes...

LOL - now that you mention it.....

[Annie03]

I still wouldn't let my daughter out of the house in that thing. Four pair of long overalls. Until she's at least 30.

Amen to that.

[Annie03]

That is just gross.

[Annie03]

I just don't get cosmetic surgery.

I don't get it either. I think it is wonderful for victims of car crashes, fires, birth defects, etc. Some of these women who have gotten it to "look younger" just look awful, IMO. Meg Ryan, Cheryl Ladd and Loni Anderson come to mind off the top of my head.

[najida]

Oh goodie!

It comes in my size (and I ain't tellin' what it is).

[Jaded]

I looked at the website this AM and didn't see the Post's dress. Even so, I wouldn't let my daughter wear the dress as it should be. Maybe with a turtleneck on underneath. It's way too risque for high school girls, IMO.