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No Soup Dress for You. Yes Soup Dress for Me.

January 13, 2015 by WendyB

The humdrum fashion at Sunday’s Golden Globes — everyone wore red! silver! cut-out white gowns! — caused me to pay more and more attention to a Progresso Light commercial I kept seeing that night. In it, a woman is pleasantly surprised by the rich taste of her low-calorie soup. She’s watching her diet because she needs to fit into a hideous green bridesmaid dress.

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Click the screenshot to see the commercial.

Over the course of the evening, this dress started looking really good to me compared to the unremarkable red carpet. I tweeted Progresso.

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Progresso, please send me this dress and and a 2016 Golden Globes ticket so that when Ryan Seacrest asks me, “Who are you wearing?” I can answer “Soup!”

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  1. Stacy says

    January 13, 2015 at 11:57 pm

    You crack me up. That doesn’t look like a soup dress — more like a side salad. Maybe some bibb lettuce with a bit of radicchio.

    • WendyB says

      January 14, 2015 at 1:23 am

      YOU’RE RIGHT!

  2. Marguerite says

    January 14, 2015 at 1:06 am

    And here I thought you were talking about a Warhol soup can dress. That would be cool, too.

    • WendyB says

      January 14, 2015 at 1:23 am

      Aw, those vintage paper ones that cost a zillion dollars! Those are so cool.

  3. Melanie says

    January 14, 2015 at 2:36 am

    Bwa-ha-ha! Let’s raise our cups of soup to originality.

    • WendyB says

      January 14, 2015 at 6:26 pm

      Cheers!

  4. HelOnWheels says

    January 14, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    Decrease the ruffle-age and I’m all about it. That giant purple-ish bow is AMAZING! You need to wear the dress, Golden Globe tickets or not!

    • WendyB says

      January 14, 2015 at 9:15 pm

      I can take some of those ruffles off and make them into a flamenco shirt for you 😛

      • HelOnWheels says

        January 15, 2015 at 11:20 am

        Deal! 😛
        I had one of those in my youth! One of the midriff ones during the late 80s/ early 90s. I loved that shirt.

  5. Sheila (of Ephemera) says

    January 15, 2015 at 2:04 am

    And when you’re done with the dress, it’s mine! I would totally wear that! I think it’s stunning, and miles more interesting than the long tall case of the blands that the Globes had.

    • WendyB says

      January 15, 2015 at 8:59 pm

      The more boring dresses I saw the more I liked the soup dress!

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