Can you be elegant if you’re not elegant looking?

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The common thing I’m seeing there is really:
Hair done (and iconic)
Makeup done and pretty
Tailored, gorgeous clothes
Classic accessories

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Anonymous wrote: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.

They both have good bone structure.

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Anonymous wrote:I think you can be elegant even if you aren't stick thin.

Its easier to pull off when you are tall and thin, since clothes look better on tall and thin people, but its possible for even average-sized people. I do think that very overweight people have a much harder time pulling off elegance.

It requires very classy, well made and PERFECTLY fitting clothes, very well-groomed, classically styled hair that is healthy and glossy, well-applied, not overdone makeup, basically perfect skin, and perfectly straight, white teeth. Quite a tall order for most people!

Oprah, basically.

Is that a joke?

-NP

+1 Oprah can pull off elegant, but not all the time.

NO ONE is elegant all the time.

She usually looks nice but here she looks like a turtle!

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Oprah’s photo looks like a photoshop job.
Still looks elegant. Just saying her curves look too ‘expected.’

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Anonymous wrote: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.

They both have good bone structure.

The last thing I've ever thought when I looked at Ina Garten was "good bone structure." But that said, she always looks polished and put-together, and to me, that goes a long way toward looking elegant.

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Anonymous wrote:Oprah’s photo looks like a photoshop job.
Still looks elegant. Just saying her curves look too ‘expected.’

Do a Google image search and you will see hundreds upon hundreds of photos of Oprah looking great. And I'm not just talking editorial photos, I'm also talking paparazzi shots:

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There’s nothing - nothing - elegant about excessive cleavage.

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Put those things away. She looks like a cow.

Omg seriously? Only in DC someone would call
Monica Belucci a “cow”. Wow.

I wouldn’t call her elegant

That isn't a flattering dress on her, but come on. I think we can all agree that this woman is elegant:

She’s not elegant. She’s sexy she’s attractive but she’s not elegant.

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No one giving you a close up of their armpit is elegant.

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And too much boob. Not elegant.

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Anonymous wrote:No one giving you a close up of their armpit is elegant.

Stack up the best photo of you next to that shot of her and ask 100 people who is more elegant. I'll wait.

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Oprah pulls off elegant while being heavy.

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Anonymous wrote:And too much boob. Not elegant.

I feel sad for you. You've fallen into the trap that elegant = white, thin, rich. Chase those dragons. The rest of us have evolved.

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Anonymous wrote:And too much boob. Not elegant.

I feel sad for you. You've fallen into the trap that elegant = white, thin, rich. Chase those dragons. The rest of us have evolved.

Thank you. This is such a sad thread. Elegance according to this thread is pastel sweaters, pearls and blond short hair.

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I agree that Queen Latifah is almost always elegant and the Olsen twins are never.