Thursday, October 30, 2008

RHOC Women Get Make-Under on Oprah

For anyone who missed Monday's installment of Oprah (and I'm hoping thats all of you, I had to watch for the sake of this website), the five women from the fourth season of "Real Housewives of Orange County" got 'made-under'. The concept behind this make-under was to tone down their "over the top" sex appeal. When did the term bus station skank go out of fashion?

Regardless, I don't know what is wrong with the style of the RHOC women, but seeing as I live in the area, their style really isn't off base or out of the norm. Oprah's "style" experts gave the 5 women make-unders to basically make them look like they were from the Midwest. I guess thats good. I don't know. It was a lot of baggy clothing, and clothing that wouldn't work in our 70 degree winter days.

While the women all loved their individual style, and they were praised for now possessing unique fashions, they agreed that they wouldn't wear these clothes back home. We have a more casual lifestyle, and more casual dress, and they would probably get laughed out of the Coto club house with their new style.

Apparently, the problem with the RHOC women is that they all had a homogenous appearance. Yes, they all do dress alike, but they dress like women from Orange County dress. Much like most women in Chicago or New York would dress like women from their respective cities. I didn't realize that Old Navy and Abercrombie were selling one of a kind originals now. My mistake.

Plus, the lamest part of this whole segment was that the make-under clothing all came from Nordstrom. Yeah, because Nordstrom is so hard to find here in Orange County, other than at the Shops of Mission Viejo, Irvine Spectrum Center, South Coast Plaza, Fashion Island, MainPlace, or Brea Mall.

Don't watch this segment. It was the biggest waste of 15 minutes of my life since I tried to have "the talk" with my Dad to get him to vote for Obama.

You can take a look at the new styles on Oprah's website:

1 comment:

  1. I'm with you. How they dress is fine for Orange County. I never thought they dressed skankily, but that it was the appropriate amount of clothing for the weather.

    If "trying to look too young" means not wanting to carry around a pool of sweat with you all day, I support their quest for youth.


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