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February 03, 2005
After Fugset
Julie Delpy gets deep into character for her next role, as a downtrodden, cankle-ridden middle school history teacher circa 1982.
Photo courtesy of Daily Celeb.
Posted by Jessica at 04:12 PM | Permalink
Comments
She's drinking a Jamba Juice, so I can't be mad.
Posted by: Wing Chun | Feb 3, 2005 4:25:49 PM
The socks. The shoes. The socks AND shoes together?
Posted by: Possum | Feb 3, 2005 4:27:09 PM
And now we know why tapered pants are one trend that should never ever come back.
Posted by: barkley | Feb 3, 2005 4:43:48 PM
From now on, the French are not allowed to brag about their innate sense of style.
Posted by: Janine | Feb 3, 2005 4:44:36 PM
Oh no! I think she looks kinda cute there.
Posted by: Marikka | Feb 3, 2005 4:46:00 PM
Oh no! I think she looks kinda cute there.
Posted by: Marikka | Feb 3, 2005 4:46:00 PM
Hey, what's with dissing middle school teachers? We aren't ALL fugly.
Posted by: K. | Feb 3, 2005 4:51:27 PM
I like the coat, but those jeans are awful.
Posted by: Uli | Feb 3, 2005 5:00:13 PM
I think she may actually be wearing leg warmers under her jeans. It looks as if her "socks" don't make it to the rim of her shoes, let alone cover her toes. Her jeans, tapered and all, just don't look quite right around her calves, either.
Posted by: thatgirl | Feb 3, 2005 5:01:34 PM
Ya know, not minding the look too much. Little disheveled, but kinda cute...
Posted by: Bis Nation | Feb 3, 2005 5:02:12 PM
I love the jacket and the bag and the purple shoes but the rest is pure evil.
The full-out winter weight wool hiking socks???? Honey if your shoes are THAT big buy a smaller pair!
I won't even go near the pants 'cause I'm speachless on that topic and I'm still amazed they're back.
But what about THE SHIRT?!?!? has no one noticed the 'I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-in-Mirakesh-and-stole-my-cab-drivers-clothes'-ness of it??
It's so very sad.
mary
Posted by: oneflewtoofar | Feb 3, 2005 5:19:31 PM
I'm in the shabby-chic party. The shoes are awful and I'm not wild about the shirt, but I like the jacket. I think the problem with the jeans is just that they're boot-cut, and she ain't wearing boots.
Posted by: Yatima | Feb 3, 2005 5:21:15 PM
Fug, is this just an anti-footbinding statement?
Posted by: brent | Feb 3, 2005 5:32:24 PM
cankle- you said cankle!
I love that someone other than guys I know use this term! I love it!
Posted by: carolyn | Feb 3, 2005 5:38:26 PM
who's this person anyway?
Posted by: hot bisexual model | Feb 3, 2005 5:43:48 PM
She doesn't look that bad to me!
Posted by: Mike Harris | Feb 3, 2005 5:50:47 PM
Would it help if I pointed out that she wore this to a speaking engagement, not just out for a Jamba Juice?
Posted by: Jessica | Feb 3, 2005 5:54:33 PM
Is it just me or does the skinny jeans/thick socks/purple shoes combo make her look like she has hooves?
Posted by: Suzie | Feb 3, 2005 6:01:52 PM
Soory, she still looks beautiful.
Posted by: anya | Feb 3, 2005 6:12:32 PM
I mean: 'Sorry' she still looks beautful. The socks are horrible but at least her face looks pretty and natural unlike Juliette Lewis who looks like Satan.
Posted by: anya | Feb 3, 2005 6:15:59 PM
Could those purple things on her feet actually be slippers to "match" her nightgown top?
Sleepwalking is the only excuse I can come up with for this ensemble.
Posted by: shaggy | Feb 3, 2005 6:17:49 PM
Does this mean I can call and thank my mom for saving my circa 1986 Guess jeans? I can't wait to put them on and look cool.
Oh, wait, it's been 20 YEARS. I can't wait to hold them up in front of my body and say, well, 20 years ago I looked as cool as Julie Delpy does now.
Posted by: Viki | Feb 3, 2005 6:23:02 PM
Jessica, I think that this isn't so much "fugly" as "wearing an incredibly casual and vaguely silly outfit to a formal occasion". If you saw her on the street in that, you'd think, "Hey, that woman probably looks great when she's dressed and made up"--you wouldn't think "My GOD! The FUG!"
Having said that, I don't understand why Actual Movie Stars want to go around dressed in the kind of crap I wear to go to the bakery down the street. If I were a movie star instead of a starving writer (well, if that bakery ever closed, I'd be starving), I'd wear ermine underpants and diamond-studded bras all the time. Or at least a nice pair of those $200 jeans that I can't afford on my salary.
Posted by: JupiterPluvius | Feb 3, 2005 6:23:44 PM
Also, her last name is Delpy, not Delphy. (Just in case anyone who doesn't know who she is wants to look her up on the imdb.)
Posted by: JupiterPluvius | Feb 3, 2005 6:24:56 PM
I think what's happening here is that Juliette Lewis has set the fugly bar too high. Or, too low. Or something.
Clearly some fug detectors need recalibration, is all I'm saying.
Posted by: shaggy | Feb 3, 2005 6:29:37 PM
Word. I mean, this woman is not hideous.
Posted by: samsang | Feb 3, 2005 6:44:46 PM
I think she looks good from the waist up. The jeans, shoes, and socks MUST go!
Posted by: impossiblejane | Feb 3, 2005 6:49:37 PM
What the Fug? Are they sure that is what the 80's reaally looked like? I can't remember so well it all went by in such a blur of bad fashion!!!
Posted by: redivy | Feb 3, 2005 7:23:51 PM
I agree with Jupiterpluvius regarding why celebs need to go around looking like crap. I wonder how much this outfit cost...around here we could nip down to the local Value Village (or Goodwill or Salvation Army Thrift shop) and walk out looking like this for around twenty bucks. But why would we want to???
Posted by: orange popsicle | Feb 3, 2005 7:24:47 PM
Yikes..those shoes!
Posted by: Alexa | Feb 3, 2005 7:48:30 PM
what an awesome site. i love this.
Posted by: c@it | Feb 3, 2005 8:12:04 PM
Nope, I'm with ya, Jessica. Especially since you said this was for a speaking engagement. I was getting an "naturally hot Soccer Mom" vibe from the waist up, but the waist down is a tourniquet/cankle/legwarmer fugstravaganza!
However, I also agree that the prom dress and Juliette Lewis have set a pretty high fug bar.
Posted by: Lida | Feb 3, 2005 8:34:00 PM
OK. The outfit sucks, but she still looks beautiful so let's cut her some slack. Just compare her to the punk mess below her.
Posted by: Richard | Feb 3, 2005 8:36:02 PM
Holy crap, did we have the same middle school history teacher?
Posted by: Loree | Feb 3, 2005 8:41:56 PM
Can I just say that I love those shoes?
With a better outfit and better pants they'd be really cute.
Don't hit me...
Posted by: alexis | Feb 3, 2005 8:43:01 PM
And from what I can see, I like her bag
Posted by: Mukira | Feb 3, 2005 8:58:50 PM
I agree from the knees up she looks ok. The jeans look too tight and the shoes are horrible!! I don't care how cold it is there's no excuse for the wool socks.
Ps. I really like her bag!
Posted by: Poppyblue | Feb 3, 2005 8:59:03 PM
Why are famous women so anti-bra? Is the saggy look in for the spring and I just don't know it?
And the top is too long. It makes her legs look short.
I won't even talk about the jeans.
But I love the coat and the bag. Cute!
Posted by: Erratic Prophet | Feb 3, 2005 9:05:18 PM
From the waist up it is a cute little ensemble but from the waist down it looks like someone threw a pair of jeans onto a purple hoofed reindeer.
And is that a shirt? cause it seems a little too long or is that the style she's trying to achieve?
Posted by: Mela | Feb 3, 2005 9:51:10 PM
Didn't she at least have some nice boobies at one point?
I knew there was some reason I liked her.
Posted by: arturo_bandini! | Feb 3, 2005 10:11:03 PM
Cankle? What is this cankle?
Posted by: k | Feb 4, 2005 1:01:58 AM
oh, my, those jeans are not flattering.
Posted by: kristen | Feb 4, 2005 1:03:56 AM
That is a hospital gown she's wearing, right?
Posted by: Chris | Feb 4, 2005 1:30:39 AM
she looks so tired and drained. like her outfit.
Posted by: mish234 | Feb 4, 2005 2:38:01 AM
This is why God made boot cut jeans...to make your legs look good. Cankle is calf + ankle = cankle. Cankle is when you have fat piano-leg ankles and shins.
Posted by: gaily gail | Feb 4, 2005 3:58:08 AM
The blue shirt and the jeans are gross that is all and from faraway her handbag looks like a carved pumpkin.
Posted by: Ngakaari | Feb 4, 2005 5:13:52 AM
Yatima, I think you're off on your understanding of "boot cut". Boot cut means they have a slight flare, in order to go OVER boots. These are straight-leg or tapered. Which I saw a LOT of in New York last week, tucked into knee boots. And worn correctly, it's actually a cute look.
That being said, these are NOT being worn correctly, over top of bulky socks/legwarmers and with round-toe pumps. Which are absolutely fabulous on their own, I might add.
Posted by: VeddyVeddyBadMan | Feb 4, 2005 6:32:01 AM
The coat is gorgeous. Bag is nice too.
The rest of the outfit indeed scores very high on the FUG-O-METER. At a speaking engagement? Other than the coat/bag she looks like my mom in 1984 going to the supermarket after the gym.
Posted by: AdamP | Feb 4, 2005 6:51:29 AM
I SO had that exact shirt... when I was in eighth grade...in 1986. I remember that I bought it off the clearance rack at Target for like three bucks.
Love the shoes though.
Posted by: Smarter than I look | Feb 4, 2005 7:24:10 AM
Is Julie Delpy beautiful? Yes. But that is sooo not the point. The outfit sucks - tapered jean, pump and sock combination is just heinous. It makes her look like she has elephant legs from the knees down. The top and the jacket have no stylistic relationship to each other - the whole thing is just off. In short, she looks like she just threw something, anything on and ran out the door - without looking in the mirror.
Posted by: Texasexile | Feb 4, 2005 7:49:00 AM
It's so *almost* cute that it's annoying. That shirt may be cute with black pants, the jeans would probably be totally hot if they were tucked into cute boots or at least shortened to the correct length (just say NO to leg wrinkles!!)And I ditto the bag comments - LOVE IT! But all together.. not so much. I feel bad for her, she is doing a major injustice to her native land.
Posted by: HipMamaB | Feb 4, 2005 7:52:10 AM
Oh and is it me, or is that shirt in need of a good ironing/press? Looks like she grabbed it out of the dirty crumpled clothes hamper of the local hospital.
Posted by: AdamP | Feb 4, 2005 8:30:46 AM
After Sunrise, Before Sunset, and, After Lobotomy.
Posted by: robyn | Feb 4, 2005 9:13:33 AM
Well, she's not pretty to begin with, so she definitely should dress neater and cleaner. And cut her scraggly hair some. And grow bangs. And wear makeup - the skin around her eyes is creepily red.
Other than those things, not so bad.
Posted by: Zazzu | Feb 4, 2005 9:22:14 AM
"cankle-ridden" is officially the coolest phrase EVER - that is all
Posted by: Cate | Feb 4, 2005 9:49:27 AM
Looking again, this outfit just gets fuglier. The shirt makes her look like she has stumps for legs, but if the shirt were shorter, she'd have legs for miles. However, shirt length aside, there is no help for the jean worn over leg warmer stuffed into purple shoe look.
Posted by: barkley | Feb 4, 2005 9:51:11 AM
This would be so easy to fix. All it needs is a nice denim skirt and the instant removal of the Polarweight Socks o'Doom.
Posted by: Ottawa Jess | Feb 4, 2005 10:01:38 AM
The jeans are atrocious. The shoes maybe OK but when combined with the aforementioned hiking socks, not good. The henly shirt/nightgown/paper gown at the gyno's office is a little too Flashdance for me.
Posted by: Shosie | Feb 4, 2005 10:06:47 AM
That outfit works well for the average Jane when she's running out for Haagen-Daz.
The big no-no is the purple suede shoes with the hiking socks.
Posted by: pantrygirl | Feb 4, 2005 10:26:46 AM
"Zut Alors!!"
(So wroteth Heather or Jessica so wittily about La Delpy once upon a time.)
Posted by: FrancoiseGilot | Feb 4, 2005 10:43:07 AM
i think she looks really pretty here. There is fug present, but its only below the knees.
Posted by: mary jane | Feb 4, 2005 4:35:46 PM
Considering the jaw-dropping, mind-bending fug Julie usually leaves the house in (as documented on your very site), I'd say this is a step in the right direction, and should be met with a judicious nod and a "That's right, Julie, you're getting there, you're getting there..."
Posted by: jute | Feb 5, 2005 2:04:20 AM
Socks with Pumps? Tapered jeans? MY EYES, MY EYES!
Posted by: amy | Feb 5, 2005 6:47:57 PM
With that pale white complexion and those 80's discount clothes, I would say she finally made it out of 80's discount clothing cave at k-mart.
Posted by: phunny | Feb 6, 2005 9:02:06 AM
Is she wearing pajamas?? and they arent even cute pajamas!!! They are old lady grandma pajamas!!
Posted by: Randi | Feb 12, 2005 6:57:11 AM
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