"I see London, I see France..."
You know, like, when you're out somewhere and you spill something on your pants, so you decide to take them off and walk around in just your shirt? Me neither. But apparently something possessed Penelope Cruz to do just that whilst strolling through Paris this past Friday.
I guess there were a few times that my kids did get their pants so soiled that we had to remove them. Then again, they were in diapers at the time.
Penelope, I'm sorry. I don't mean to be mean. But you're in the public eye. You get followed around by lots of people with cameras. When you take off your pants and then walk down the street without them, someone's bound to notice. And Penelope, a final word of fashion advice: if it's short enough to be a shirt - it ain't long enough to be a dress!
Well said, Ms. Shapiro.
Posted by: Talia | July 18, 2007 at 08:38 AM
Maybe she rethought the outfit, based on the tongue-lashing she'd no doubt get from our friends The Fug Girls. Many have withered under their hair-trigger, violent reaction to dresses-over-pants.
Posted by: Liz Neville | July 18, 2007 at 12:33 PM
What was she thinking?!
Posted by: Anna S | July 18, 2007 at 01:31 PM
Allison, you do know how to turn a phrase, don't you? Side splitting funny!!!
Posted by: Marlene | July 18, 2007 at 02:03 PM
My first reaction: It's all about publicity.
Ellen
Posted by: ellen | July 18, 2007 at 02:18 PM
I appreciate the link to the pic of Penelope Cruz without pants on!! ;)
Posted by: | July 18, 2007 at 03:55 PM
What was she thinking?!
-- Anna S
Simple.
"I wanna, so I can!
I'm a *CELEBRITY*!"
Posted by: Ken | July 18, 2007 at 04:03 PM
It is interesting that the story was the she took her pants off. There would have been no story if she had just gone out in a SUPER short dress (ie that shirt). But it was the removing of the pants that made it newsworthy. Perhaps the media has some standards. Or maybe they just don't like flip-flopping. Sartorially, at least.
Posted by: Alexandra Foley | July 19, 2007 at 11:47 AM
"I see London/I see France..." has a slightly different implication for those of us "of a certain age." (I'm nearly 60). When I was a little girl, girls weren't allowed to wear anything but dresses or skirts to school. We're not talking miniskirts, either.
Most of us, including myself, did enjoy playing on the playground equipment at recess (remember that one, kids?)
Back in that particular day, hanging from the monkey bars, swinging, see-sawing, sliding, acrobatics while wearing dresses or skirts could, and did, earn girls the taunt, by boys, of "I see London, I see France...."
As a parent in a time when girls could wear shorts or slacks to school, I could never understand why, in my day, this wasn't allowed, at least for gym or recess.
Not until junior high were gym classes sex-segregated and gym uniforms, typically shorts and shirts or one-piece rompers, required.
This website is about a return to modesty. I'd say with the gym clothes situation of my youth, it's about forty years overdue!
Posted by: fran froelich | July 24, 2007 at 03:20 PM
This really isn't scandalous. She's just wearing a dress. Lots of women wear dresses over jeans, and then will wear the same dress without jeans. It's really not a big deal.
Posted by: annonymous | July 29, 2007 at 01:16 AM