{"id":23926,"date":"2014-01-18T21:52:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T02:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=23926"},"modified":"2014-01-18T22:20:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T03:20:54","slug":"my-best-dressed-at-the-sag-awards-plus-armgina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/my-best-dressed-at-the-sag-awards-plus-armgina\/","title":{"rendered":"My Best Dressed at the SAG Awards &#8230; Plus Armgina!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was no contest. My <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/best-dressed-wear-what-you-want-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">Best Dressed\/Wear What You Want combo award<\/a> for the Screen Actors Guild awards goes to Kerry Washington. Remember, to get this prestigious award, a beautiful outfit doesn&#8217;t suffice. Your look has to be eye-catching &#8212; even controversial. Pregnant Kerry scored with a Prada crop top and skirt, because a crop top on a pregnant woman is always going to make some people go &#8220;tsk tsk.&#8221; And this crop top was on a serious red carpet, not a MTV Video Music Awards &#8220;anything goes&#8221; deal. But anyone who looks at Kerry and disapproves needs to get his or her eyes examined, because she looks absolutely elegant.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23930\" style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thestir.cafemom.com\/pregnancy\/167077\/pregnant_kerry_washington_wears_crop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23930\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23930\" alt=\"kerry\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kerry.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kerry.jpg 334w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kerry-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for source.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There was some other good fashion at the SAGs &#8212; more so than at last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/my-best-dressed-at-the-golden-globes-emma-watson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Globes<\/a>.\u00a0 Lupita Nyong&#8217;o looked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/498322\/lupita-nyong-o-rocks-red-ralph-lauren-cape-dress-reminiscent-of-gwyneth-paltrow-s-oscar-gown\" target=\"_blank\">gorgeous again<\/a>, this time in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/501135\/lupita-nyong-o-stuns-at-the-sag-awards-see-her-gorgeous-gucci-gown\" target=\"_blank\">teal Gucci gown<\/a>. Like the red Ralph Lauren she wore to the Globes, the gown is a perfect fit.\u00a0 Most improved was Jennifer Lawrence, whose sparking Dior was much better than her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/style-blog\/wp\/2014\/01\/13\/jennifer-lawrences-dior-golden-globes-dress-inspired-a-new-meme\/\" target=\"_blank\">puffy, white, meme-spawning Globes gown<\/a>. The ever-quotable actress startled E!&#8217;s viewers by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/501136\/jennifer-lawrence-points-out-her-armpit-vagina-still-stuns-at-sag-awards\" target=\"_blank\">referring to her &#8220;armpit vagina&#8221; during her red-carpet interview<\/a>. Oh, Jennifer! Don&#8217;t you know the proper term is &#8220;armgina&#8221;?! But I can&#8217;t be mad because when I wrote about the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/google-loves-wendy-brandes\/\" target=\"_blank\">too-tight bodice afflicting Katherine Heigl in 2008<\/a> I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I\u2019m sorry, beautiful actress Katherine Heigl! I would never have mentioned this because you are gorgeous from head to toe, including your armpits, but I was worried I would never have another reason to say the word &#8216;armgina&#8217; if I didn\u2019t take this opportunity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, J-Law, for giving me a reason to say &#8220;armgina&#8221; again! It&#8217;s been way too long!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: From the Department of Red-Carpet Hairdos: Natalie Dormer looked hawt with her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/501145\/natalie-dormer-debuts-half-shaved-head-at-the-2014-sag-awards\" target=\"_blank\">half-shaved head<\/a>. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no contest. My Best Dressed\/Wear What You Want combo award for the Screen Actors Guild awards goes to Kerry Washington. Remember, to get this prestigious award, a beautiful outfit doesn&#8217;t suffice. Your look has to be eye-catching &#8212; even controversial. Pregnant Kerry scored with a Prada crop top and skirt, because a crop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/my-best-dressed-at-the-sag-awards-plus-armgina\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[387,645,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-awards-shows","8":"category-best-dressed-wear-what-you-want-award","9":"category-celebrities","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23926"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23937,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23926\/revisions\/23937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}