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| I always wonder on DCUM if this is the same crowd who only thinks Jackie O and Princess Kelly are elegant while shopping at old navy? |
I'm not a fan of Lena, but I actually think she looks elegant in the top picture. Nice, classic hairstyle, simple makeup, tailored outfit. She also looked really nice in that pic on the first page of this thread. Slightly preppy outfit, good colors, etc. The green dress pic shows why she is NOT elegant. The tattoos. The dress doesn't fit great. The pink and green clash rather than contrast. In her case, it's more her personality than her looks that make her unelegant. But overall, I think elegance means knowing when to keep a look simple. |
| Great posture is a necessity of elegant. But long thin arms and legs plus high check bones face seems to be the standard. |
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That isn't a flattering dress on her, but come on. I think we can all agree that this woman is elegant:
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But to even use Lena Dunham in this thread is just a weird choice. She is known for being a fancy slob - a rich kid savant hedonist. Of course she's not wearing the dress that one would wear to be elegant. That's not her thing. She has made a killing being a mess - but a mess with a HUGE amount of social and financial capital. She doesn't need elegance. She has other stuff. It's what she has built a career on - a remarkable career for someone her age. So to post her photo as evidence that one can't be elegant if one isn't skinny is just bizarre. It's not proof of anything other than Lena Dunham is Lena Dunham. |
+1 Oprah can pull off elegant, but not all the time. |
NO ONE is elegant all the time.
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Well, I guess I meant that some people need less work to get to that level. Some people pull off the look naturally and it’s their everyday look. No make up, air dry hair and they look elegant. Others need help. |
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Last weekend a skinny woman in a casual elegant dress burped loudly repeated times while I was having dinner at a restaurant. She also started to use his fingers to clean her teeth.
Her dress was too much for her. |
| Yes you can be elegant without being tall and thin! Think Martha Stewart or the Barefoot Contessa. I would absolutely consider both of them elegant, even though they're often dressed relatively casually. Good haircuts, simple makeup, tailored clothes. |
+1 Exactly this. Some of you have a hung-up, outdated view that being elegant = white, thin, blonde/blondish and rich. If that's the criteria, then this would be elegant:
Welcome to 2019. We've evolved the view of elegant to mean taking pride in your appearance, and aiming to look polished and put together and ladylike. This is elegance:
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I know it's just a simple black dress but Queen Latifah looks gorgeous there - and I really love that dress |
| You can tell that, for some people, "elegance" is really just another code word. |