In or Out: Leighton Meester

Ooooh, honey. That’s just a no. There are a lot of elements to this little frock and they’re just not coming together in any way that looks flattering. In fact, there’s so much going on here that you really need to be a professional clothes-wearer (i.e., model) to get it to work at all. We don’t exactly love the dress on the model, but she’s been dressed and tucked and pinned to perfection and her only job skill is the ability to make clothes look good. Besides, she had that dress on for a total of about 20 minutes, if that.

On Leighton it just looks sloppy and overdone. Please note that we are NOT saying that she’s not model-thin enough to wear the dress. This has nothing to do with body types (and let’s face it, Leighton’s body is pretty much flawless by real-world standards); it has more to do with…well, having the skill to wear a dress like this. We know that sounds a little silly, but the higher up you get on the fashion chain, the more you have to possess some sort of skill at wearing clothes, especially if you’re regularly photographed. An unusual little dress like this requires boatloads of attitude, perfect posture from every angle, and the kind of (occasionally delusional) confidence that says “I am the SHIT in this frigging dress!”

So, even though her shoes are fabulous, her hair and makeup are pretty and the dress is unusual and eye-catching, it’s more of an OUT for us. Leighton honey, pay attention. We’re going to give you the advice that your stylist obviously didn’t but your gay uncles will:

Chin up, tits out, feet spaced at shoulder width, hand on hip and through it all, keep telling yourself over and over and over again “Everyone wants to be me or do me.”

[Photos: Getty Images/WireImage/Style.com]

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