How To Dress Like America Ferrera
A fun article on the amazing personal style of America Ferrera (I love that top outfit by Diane von Furstenberg) and how you can totally try to work it yourself, if you have a similar, hourglass body type.
Miss. Ferrera has been popping up on more and more “best dressed” lists recently, and it’s no surprise. Her style is the perfect blend of youthful elegance and class that you hardly see anymore.
Ok, so her look is neither groundbreaking nor is it avant-garde, but I love it just the same. America looks glossy, but not overprocessed and like the girl next door that you really want to go shopping with. The girl knows how to dress her shape without looking dowdy or obscene, and in a world of uber-thin actresses, it’s nice to see someone that looks like me out there working it.
And this reminds me that I haven’t yet seen the sequel to the movie about the pants, which is also about pants. That is very wrong, and gives me ideas for how to spend my holiday weekend.
Thanks to Anne for the link!
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Filed under: America Ferrera, Celebrities, Fashion, Feel Good Friday, Movies, Tidbit
She is gorgeous and I love how she works her curves. That top dress is so cute but my favorite is the Burberry, 3rd pic down. I would so wear that.
America not only has great style when it comes to fashion, but she also has a really stylish looking Nintendo DS. It was shown in her promotion for the I Play for Me Nintendo campaign targeting women, she put her name on the back of the top screen in stickers. So cute! I also love to see a fat gamer like myself too.
Maybe my understanding of “fat” is screwed up, but America doesn’t look fat in any of those pictures. She looks like many of the other women in Hollywood (not the emaciated ones).
Not so crazy about the “waist not, want not” bit, nor the advice to create “a slimming effect.”
Also, what if we’re not “as naturally beautiful as America”? (Which the article presupposes we might not be.)
And then there’s the sample dress at the bottom of that article, with the Yu Clothing dress worn by a woman with barely any body fat at all.
Not so much with the FA.
Oh yeah, she is definitely not fat at all, except in the sense of “Hollywood fat.” And she certainly doesn’t need a “slimming effect.” Good point!
I fail to see how dressing for your “shape” is anything more than patriarchy dredged lecture on how to make your body more appropriately sexy so that the all important arbiters of your worth, men, will evaluate you in a positive manner.
In other words, under normal circumstances according to patriarchy, America Ferrera is not good enough to be deemed worthy of existing by merit of not having an appropriate body type - aka, sexy and thin - so she must jump through fashion hoops in order to render her body appropriate for consumption by society.
No
No no no.
Not good, not positive, not anything worthwhile.
We can’t stamp out fat and body hate, and I mean TRULY stamp it out, until bodies are seen as worthwhile simply by merit of being. Dressing the way you wish to dress should be fun for you, and not something done so your “shape” will finally be appropriate.
That reminds me of my skull sweater, and this post.
Well, if you want to enhance this particular shape, this is a good article. No one here is saying you have to dress this way.
It’s about how you find your body most attractive and dressing to enhance that shape (or part). If this isn’t how you want to look, don’t wear this style. But some people do want to have this shape and like getting advice on how to achieve it. I don’t see why we all have to jump on mo pie for this one.
I say thanks for the link. :)
America is definitely thinner than when she first started (watch Real Women Have Curves or even the first pants movie), but she’s still not exactly Hollywood skinny, she actually has a curvy shape. I think she’s really pretty.