{"id":31709,"date":"2016-02-01T09:36:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=31709"},"modified":"2019-05-14T20:04:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T00:04:17","slug":"my-best-dressed-at-the-2016-sag-awards-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/my-best-dressed-at-the-2016-sag-awards-is\/","title":{"rendered":"My Best Dressed at the 2016 SAG Awards Is &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Hollywood awards show has come and gone without a good candidate for my coveted <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>. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/my-best-dressed-at-the-2016-critics-choice-awards-is\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Critics&#8217; Choice Awards<\/a> earlier in the month, Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.com\/celebrity\/red-carpet-dresses\/g6789\/the-best-of-the-2016-screen-actors-guild-awards-arrivals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Screen Actors Guild Awards<\/a> had a lot of attractive red-carpet looks, but none that gave me that special &#8220;so wrong it&#8217;s right&#8221; feeling.<\/p>\n<p>I did pause for a moment over January Jones, who should have known her voluminous Schiaparelli dress would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/photos\/18107\/worst-dressed-at-the-sag-awards-2016\/676594\" target=\"_blank\">ruffle fashion police feathers<\/a>. I always appreciate an act of defiance.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 428px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/507727246\" target=\"_blank\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 138.785047% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/507727246?et=POYkkbuPQ19ih4eqD2MSEA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=dZ7F0zh0w3ldANrK4YUyFclsJ4rJU30RL-Fs7XiIXoU=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"428\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center>Plus, I do love bustles almost as much as I love <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/boob-and-butt-bows\/\" target=\"_blank\">butt bows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 441px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/507723294\" target=\"_blank\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 134.693878% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/507723294?et=3ESNcJqOToRU2JLSZQUTWQ&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=SEktzeI0ktk-papiiiCdl5bRk7eqZbVLWFkKEmCEkKw=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"441\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center>But that dress was a strange kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/mullets\/\" target=\"_blank\">mullet<\/a> &#8212; Sister Wife in the front, party in the back &#8211;, so I&#8217;m splitting my awards between two other women. Best Dressed goes to Alicia Vikander, who won Best Supporting Actor for <em>The Danish Girl<\/em>, while wearing sequined-and-slit Louis Vuitton.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 401px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/507726958\" target=\"_blank\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 148.129676% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/507726958?et=dgvq1eQ9T9h3W7Hq9raI3w&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=RoMd3IWA8jDNZmyHb0GJ8xAierRKn6daWqBStXEPpcE=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"401\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofugyourself.com\/sag-awards-well-played-alicia-vikander-in-louis-vuitton-01-2016\" target=\"_blank\">The Fug Girls<\/a> noted that this graphic look would fit in nicely with Don Draper&#8217;s decor in <em>Mad Men<\/em>, which makes me sorry that Jones &#8212; who played Betty Draper to John Hamm&#8217;s Don on <em>Mad Men<\/em> &#8212; wasn&#8217;t the one wearing it.<\/p>\n<p>The Wear What You Want winner is 82-year-old comedy icon Carol Burnett, who received SAG&#8217;s Lifetime Achievement Award. She showed up wearing fleecy Ugg slippers, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/carol-burnett-sag-awards-uggs_us_56ad5593e4b0010e80ea5e07\" target=\"_blank\">she posed in before switching to black pumps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 415px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/507726244\" target=\"_blank\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 143.132530% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/507726244?et=8SBZm9S0Sal8B88DXUu7bg&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=g0FA9QJRkByz2C_RGsU2XuEb-RjsqgDYiziDSNYhQsA=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"415\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center>It&#8217;s true that briefly worn Uggs aren&#8217;t as eye-catching as a curtain-rod dress &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_31710\" style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/i-saw-it-in-the-window-and-i-just-couldnt-resist-it\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31710\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31710\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31710\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/carol-burnett-b-wwtw.jpg\" alt=\"Carol Burnett wearing the draperies in her &quot;Went With the Wind&quot; sketch.\" width=\"298\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Burnett wearing the draperies in her &#8220;Went With the Wind&#8221; sketch.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; but at least they couldn&#8217;t actually catch someone in the eye. Safety first! Besides, Carol deserves <em>all<\/em> the awards, doesn&#8217;t she?<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i8DOjMvDNr4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Plus, this creates the perfect opportunity to share this Carol Burnett show &#8220;Family&#8221; sketch, in which Carol, Vicki Lawrence and Dick Van Dyke lose their composure as Tim Conway slowly unravels a story about circus elephants. Stay with it until Lawrence wins the sketch with one line that has Conway literally rolling on the floor laughing.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3qqE_WmagjY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Every so often, I think of Conway&#8217;s line, &#8220;I was at this freak show one time and I saw these Siamese elephants,&#8221; and laugh out loud regardless of where I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Hollywood awards show has come and gone without a good candidate for my coveted Best Dressed\/Wear What You Want combo award. Like the Critics&#8217; Choice Awards earlier in the month, Saturday&#8217;s Screen Actors Guild Awards had a lot of attractive red-carpet looks, but none that gave me that special &#8220;so wrong it&#8217;s right&#8221; feeling&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/my-best-dressed-at-the-2016-sag-awards-is\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31710,"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":[231,387,645,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-awards","8":"category-awards-shows","9":"category-best-dressed-wear-what-you-want-award","10":"category-celebrities","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31709","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=31709"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42601,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31709\/revisions\/42601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}