By A. Scott Walton
How is it that all of the plus-sized women featured prominently at the 82nd Academy Awards all happened to wear Baltic blue gowns?
Did someone dictate to all the big girls (namely, the stars of "Precious") that the "slimming effect" of wearing black only goes so far?
This won't be a popular question among fans of Best Supporting Actress award-winner, Mo'Nique, but was a bunched-up satin dress really the best choice she had?
Flap your flabby arms if you thought her frock was a winner!
And, speaking of the right to bare arms, how did you like the crystal-studded Sea World tarp that "Precious" star Gabby Sidibe wore to the Academy Awards? That gathered, off-the-shoulder effect really accentuated her best features, didn't it?
And - as kept man, Nick Cannon, surely mutters from time to time - let's not even get into Mariah! With all that (faux or real?) padding going on with her, you'd almost expect Martin Lawrence to come popping out as an uninvited guest shooting guerilla footage for Big Momma 3.
But that's not the point.
The point is, their stylists let them down.
It's their astoundingly expressive faces that have been emphasized; not their cleavage or thighs or (ahem) forcepts.
Whether they wore matching colors or not, all three would have ranked higher on best-dressed lists if they'd chosen A-line gowns with high necklines and longer sleeves. Something like the stunningly sophisticated garb Oprah wore, in a duskier blue hue, to the Oscars.
Too bad the onscreen women of "Precious" got beached in the low tide of high styles strutted on Oscars red carpet. This talented trio deserves better in the awards night wardrobe department.
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