Carrie Underwood in Badgley Mischka

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Carrie Underwood attends the “American Idol” Season 11 Grand Finale Show in a Badgley Mischka dress paired with bag and sandals by Jimmy Choo. Earrings by Royal Asscher.

Jimmy Choo ‘Fairview’ Crystal Embellished Sandal


 

[Photo Credit: Andrew Evans/PR Photos, nordstrom.com]

  • Filmm8ker

    Adorbs.

     

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1401197785 Jennifer Peters-Ahnberg

    That is such a cute look for her, but what is with this “forget the pants” epidemic?

    • http://opinionandamovie.blogspot.com/ Deitra S.

      It’s like she realized she left the house sans pants in the last photo.  You can almost hear her saying, “Crap, y’all, all the sequins on my top & shoes got me so flustered that I left the house half necked!” (Country folk don’t say “naked,” only “neck-ed.”)  But really everything else is quite pretty.

      • janiemary

        In the south, naked and “neck-ed” have two different meanings…  as in… when Betty Sue is naked she doesn’t have any clothes on but when Betty Sue is “neck-ed” she doesn’t have any clothes on and she up to something!!

        • siriuslover

          I can vouch for janiemary, because my husband told me the same thing years ago!

  • suzanne77

    I just think about how exceedingly short skirts were in the 60′s, especially on starlets and such and this just proves that fashion is truly cyclical. I shall await the return of bustles and ankle length skirts.

    • judith traherne

      That’s an interesting point. Short skirts in the 60s seem natural to me but something about this look is setting off the “too short” alarms. Maybe it needs a floppy brim hat and pastel pantyhose and lower, block-ier heels. Yes, definitely lower heels.

      • http://joyouslifesf.wordpress.com Kiltdntiltd

         I think its the distinct lack of hose that makes it a bit touchier.  Looking at those bare legs going all the way up to THERE, it is hard not to go the rest of the way up, in your mind.  With the patterned tights, and metallic hose of the sixties, the look was complete, and you edited out the shortness to a degree.  Though at the time, there was certainly plenty of discussion about how trashy the super short skirts were.

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1401197785 Jennifer Peters-Ahnberg

          Exactly!

      • Nariya

        I submit that it’s the bagginess of the dress. Make it a little more fitted, and it’d look more like a dress than a disco ball blouse.

      • BrooklynBomber

        Oh, damn. I did a  whole reply with a link — I even broke it up, and it still didn’t post.  I was saying that when I read this blog, this question comes up for me a lot. I do think that it may be partly that I’m older but that it has a lot to do with the minis now just looking like tunics and being worn with stilettos. Back then, some of them looked  like tops worn w/o pants, but I’d say more of them had the silhouette and/or some kind of detail at the hem or waist that made them look like actual dresses. And they were worn with flats, low stacked heels, boots, and eventually platforms. But never dressy stilettos. Google “Galleria immagini minigonne” and you’ll see some of what I’m talking about. Sylva Koscina does look like she’s wearing a long sweater she just threw a belt around. But look at Barbara Ruskin–that’s clearly a dress. And the first two pictures with the low slung belts. And of course all the footwear.

        • judith traherne

          That’s a great website BB. Note that a lot of them are wearing knee-high boots so that adds to the not-bare-leg look Kilt. referenced above.

          • BrooklynBomber

            yep – boots. gogo, knee high, thigh-high – they all make the look.

      • Jan Lundgren

         Back in those days, the rule was that the hem of your skirt should touch your fingertips when your arm was down. Hers is several inches shorter than that.

    • UsedtobeEP

      We had that on Fan Bingbing a few days ago, remember?  Well, without the bustle.

  • http://twitter.com/_karenbee_ Karen Bee

    Hair needs to be up for it to work properly, but everything else works. Her stance is … awkward.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jessica-TallGirl-Freeman/1043623567 Jessica TallGirl Freeman

      Exactly.  She is flexing her thigh muscles.  As though we couldn’t see them.

  • In_Stitches

    Of course.  

  • HomeOfficeGirl

    Very pretty girl.  It’s definitiely a “country-star-on-a-variety-show” kinda dress, I guess.  Could be from about 4 decades.

  • http://twitter.com/BMoke28 Bernadette Moke

    Cute. But that “dress” is too short, too see through and too flowy to be worn like that. She better not sit down or someone is getting a flash of underwear or lack there of at some point during the night. Also glitter shoes with a glitter dress… it’s a little overboard.

  • Shoelover1512

    An inch longer and it would be so adorable!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jessica-TallGirl-Freeman/1043623567 Jessica TallGirl Freeman

    The dress is too short, and makes the sleeves look way too heavy.  Isn’t is summer?  This looks a bit out of season with the dark color and long sleeves.

    • janetjb

      I was thinking the same thing – it’s too heavy looking.  Except for the length, it looks like a winter dress.

      She does look good in it, but I wish her shoes were a bit lower.

    • Anathema_Device

       And you know what’s weird? I was dress shopping this winter and everything was very lightweight and sleeveless or strapless!! Are we in Australia now and no one told me?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/J2VE4NE2FY2BP4QD2XOYKJGLPI Laura

    A tad short but I love it, and the shoes are fab. Nice legs, honey. 

  • quiltrx

    It’s really cute, but a few more inches would have been better.

  • chelwi

    She forgot her pants and how to pose.

  • PastryGoddess

    You know honey, you can be sexy without giving up the contents of your personal address book.

  • Onika K Morris-Alleyne

    Legs together honey

  • http://twitter.com/katherinemacall Katherine Hurt

    I wish she’d take out the extensions and rock a cute bob! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1314255041 Irina Ryabchuk

    Boo-ring!

  • amf0001

    shoes are sparkly and pretty but that outfit is too much uptop and too naked below.  If it was shift, (sleeveless)  it might not look so odd,  but the proportions are wrong and it just makes me think it’s missing it’s bottom,  as opposed to being sexy (and how do you sit in those outfits? seriously!)

    • crash1212

       EXACTLY what I was gonna say. A sleeveless shift would’ve made all the difference. Also, those Jimmy Choos are everywhere these days in various fabrications…and I love them.

  • lojoso

    Such a shame no one would give her free pants….

  • Jennifer Hofstetter

    Don’t like the sleeves, and the dress is WAY TOO SHORT, but it could have worked.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1069083922 Brady Galan

    60′s Country star realness.  In a bad way.

  • http://twitter.com/dixielou8 Ashley

    WOWZA that dress is short. Cute, but short.

  • knittingfrau

    Someone teach her how to stand. She looks like a horse getting ready to leak on the carpet.

    • leftcoastpickle

      thanks knittingfrau, that made me laugh.

  • http://twitter.com/PhDKnitter marlie

    If you’re going to wear a dress THAT short (which I don’t advise), please don’t stand with your legs apart like that. Dunno what it is, but I find that pose with short skirts/dresses to be a bit tacky. 

    ETA: The dress is pretty, but a couple more inches on the length would have been nice.

  • MilaXX

    Gyno dress and bad pose, but she looks cute.

  • Anathema_Device

    Too short. Too blonde.  Kind of cute, but a little tacky for me.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/K3O2QNXDJIU3AJINAGNJRYWDZ4 mrspotts66

    why?  why do they insist on a dress the length of a select-a-size paper towel?
    a few inches more in length and something at the waist for a little definition, and it could be a really cute dress!

  • RzYoung

    Yeh, I love this, what’s not to love. Those shoes are so kitsch and cute!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QFW22QV426LUOEPGASPZJWJMDE MishaFoomin

    I get tired of seeing all the rehearsed posing, the same two or three positions on so many lady celebs. More natural, candid pictures are fine by me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ginny-Ellsworth/534496198 Ginny Ellsworth

    I…can’t…lift…my…hand…to…wave…at…the…crowds…! or you would see the good china.

  • AlexisPayne

    Ice princess

  • IAmJ

    Bad. Gyno dress and awkward posing. Not loving the makeup job, either.

  • TheOriginalLulu

    Cute! I love it!
    It feels so strange to be giving Carrie Underwood a thumbs up. Usually she dresses a lil on the tacky side.

  • holdmewhileimnaked

    i cant believe i’m typing this but, then again, stranger things have, you know, happened:
    i usually like what she wears–do not ask me why–better than most people like what she wears. not that i usually love it or anything [i can say at least that for myself], but i rarely see whats so wrong w/ it. i suppose i should hate it more than i dislike the people who attempt avant garde & never get there; but & then again redux, the people who cant get there probably were the wrong people to attempt the climb in the first place.

    that said, this is one of her dresses i’ve liked the most. not for any good reason, mind. just for welcoming me back to somewhere between 1965 & 1971, & w/ sequins. wouldve more likely been rhinestones the first time but, hey, i can live w/ this too.

    • alyce1213

      I get it.
      I wore that silhouette in those years, that short and shorter. One of my favorites had long, bell-shaped sleeves. Iconic.
      Had very different shoes, of course. good times . . .

  • Sara__B

    Skating costume for the Christmas extravaganza, Grandmas on Ice.

  • MzzPants

    Hello Cooch Dress!

  • Lina_bee

    I hate the sleeves & makeup. I like the print. The length is very 1967 in a cute way, but also in a way that makes me hope she’s wearing matching bloomers because sitting down would be SO unsanitary. I’m also over this hair. I’d like to see her cut it super-short.

  • guest2visits

    This length does not flatter, it just creates the bow legged effect.  It’s almost a square sequinned box.
    She’s cute, and I like the shoes and clutch.

  • Snailstsichr

    Looks like they hemmed this for Linda Hunt and accidentally gave it to Carrie. Either that or she forgot the Palazo pants for her costume for the Barbara Streisand tribute.

  • Macy Augustus

    There is nothing offensive here.  Those are some pretty great shoes; the dress is short, but she has some of the best legs I’ve ever seen.  It’s everything from the shoulders up that is killing me.  Carrie is a beautiful woman, I just sincerely wish she’d attempt something more sleek, polished and sophisticated in her beauty looks.  It is always the same:  Barbie hair, dramatic eye, nude lip.  Not a bad look, but sincerely boring to see on every red carpet.

  • http://profiles.google.com/sara.e.munoz Sara Munoz

    I’m sorry, but this is like Lea Michele’s “Of course” outfits. No wonder TLo put it on Whiteboard. There is nothing to say that hasn’t been said. It’s… expected.

  • Valdri8

    It is a great dress, and she has amazing legs, but it is too short.

  • Jungle_Ju

    This dress a kind of “The Queen of the NIght” felling (as in the opera, not on the dance floor”, and I wouldnt evenr bother that it seems short if :
    - she would correctly and not on some fashion blogger posture, ie with her feet NOT turned inside
    - she would wear smaller heels. You don’t wear high heels when you have a short skirt, that’s redondant, isn’t it ?

  • clairellis

    Her skirt is short bc her legs are freakin awesome! If my legs looked like that I’d also leave my pants home!

  • SapphoPoet

    Cute and age-appropriate. Glad she is not wearing one of those gowns she often wraps herself in. 

  • VicksieDo

    Sparkly dress OR sparkly shoes. Not both.

  • nannypoo

    She looks great in a short skirt, but this dress is too shapeless to be so short. It looks wide, and it makes her look wide.

  • wordphreak

    Unfinished.

  • Mariah J

    You can get this at rent the runway! Love it

  • http://twitter.com/lenabena_ Elena

    Boring.

  • Sophie Collier

    Oh look, Jimmy Choos.

    A few inches more on the dress and you’ve got a winner.

  • LambeeBaby

    Love the shoes. I don’t like the print of the fabric, but the style is very cute. I hope she waxed…

  • BobStPaul

    That’s just – wrong.  Way too short and blocky.  

  • PaulaBerman

    With that hair, it’s very “Night out at the Grande Ole Opry.”

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/toodleskitty79?feature=guide AWS

    Oddly shaped neckline.  Just not loving this at all.  Not even the shoes.  This is a Phyllis Diller dress.

  • http://howtofaint.tumblr.com/ How to Faint

    Aw, she forgot her ice skates. Bless her heart.

  • aristida_girl

    Cute shirt!

  • http://twitter.com/jaythenerdkid Aaminah Khan

    Cute, though it would have been cuter with tighter sleeves. I want that dress in my wardrobe.

  • http://vhanna26.typepad.com Vera

    Killer shoes.

  • http://twitter.com/pag_baj Paige Boerman

    It’s probably the stance, but her legs look slightly odd. Maybe it’s also the proportions? It always looks a little odd to me when a super super short dress has long sleeves. Otherwise, it’s adorable.

  • http://profiles.google.com/alison.sigman Alison Sigman

    Love the shoes but hate everything else. 

  • Jessika Ralph

    All I could think was, “I’m a firework!  Go America!”

  • leftcoastpickle

    i love her, she just sounds like the nicest person. I wish she would hire a stylist.

  • http://twitter.com/nonchalantanna Anna

    Oh Carrie, you accidentally left the house in your gay boyfriend’s oversized bejeweled sweatshirt that he bought a thrift store just for “funsies”. 

  • http://twitter.com/hurricaneemilyy Emily Shaver

    Adorable throwback to baby doll dresses. Killer Jimmy Choo’s. I think the effect would have been better if her hair was in some sort of  updo, because while she is supposed to seem like a down home girl (hence the “no fuss” hair), this dress does not say that. Still, gurl you look cute.