Katy Perry in Versus

Filtered through my admittedly irrational dislike of her, my first thought was: she looks like an idiot, but doesn’t she always?

oh my. i’m surprised by how nice the dress looks without the dead muppet shrug. the hair is unfortunate.

OK, this just makes me angry. Katy has the potential to be quite pretty and has boatloads of money with which to purchase really amazing clothes. And this is what we get.

She reminds me of the Strawberry Shortcake characters who always stay in a certain color scheme for character.  She’s in the Sour Grapes end of the ROYGBIV spectrum

I like the absurdity of a pose with her hands designed to highlight her slim waist…that is totally obscured by Muppet pelt.

Doesn’t she always dress like this?

She always looks ridiculous. I think this is a perfectly acceptable ridiculous look for her…. if that makes sense.

It looks like the 1980′s collided with a sheep farm.   Ugh.

I think it’s a cute dress. Vest, not so much.

But don’t bash. She’s known for pop star excess in her dress & this one is just a little more, well, Herman’s Hermits than usual. And the girl’s going through a divorce, that gives her a pass.

The dress is nice.  Not so crazy about the vest.  But I think the entire would look better if her hair were the color of, you know, hair. 

Without the purple faux-fur, it’s a very pretty dress, and Katy’s thing is weird hair, so it’s almost an “in” for me, judging on the Perry scale, but the fur does it in.

Ouch!  My eyes!

Cute dress, but it doesn’t fit her across the hips. The less said about the purple people eater on her chest, the better.

OH MY GOD SHE KILLED A MUPPET.

I can’t explain why but this look not only doesn’t bother me at all, I like it. She established herself early on as kooky and marching to the beat of her own drummer. She’s still under 30. She’s a pretty girl, a decent pop singer, has a lot of spunk. It’s cute enough for the Celebrity Beach Bowl After Party, which if you think about it, just begs for fun outfits, based on the name alone.

And she wore it to the NFL Honors Show, which with Alec Baldwin and Jimmy Fallon among other celebrities, was aiming for a young, hip audience.

Now if I wore this, it would be considered a Halloween costume. But I’m, ahem, *of a certain age*. It kind of makes me wish I had dressed like this at least once in my life!

It seems quite in keeping with Katy Perry’s style, which I am ambivalent about anyway, so I’m not as offended by this outfit as our gracious hosts. But I did, however, just think up a brilliant new game for T & L: chop off the head of an outfitted celeb (via Photoshop, of course) and then we get to decide who wore it, or, better, who should have worn it….
…I’ll get my coat.

pretty shade of attention-whore purple. 

She needs to stop looking to Bratz dolls for styling inspiration.

Painful. Poor girl. She’s clearly hurting.

Well, she knows how you hate things that are too matchy-matchy.  So she picked a hair color that  kind of complements the color of the dress.

Well…the texture…it’s…I …her hair colour brings out her pretty blue eyes? That’s all i can manage

huh, the purple thing is my favorite part. the whole thing doesn’t bother me like it’s bothering everyone else either. Yeah, the roots re unfortunate but overall I like it. 

Katy more or less defines the Cyndi Lauper lyric that states unequivocally that “girls just wanna have fun.”  I’m cutting her a lot of slack for a couple more years.  At which point she’s going to have to show a bit more maturity.  But for now, blue hair and Muppet boleros are par for the course.  Especially now, what with the divorce and all, Katy just wants to have fun.  And that’s fine with me.