So well-fitted, elegant, and simple. But now, I'm seeing the side and the effect is entirely different. It's trending on X, and people aren't sure that it's not a complete accident or an accidentally-on-purpose "accident":
Gwyneth Paltrow is facing backlash after wearing this dress at the Oscars pic.twitter.com/8y7e7ynG0j
— USA NEWS 🇺🇸 (@usanewshq) March 16, 2026
I'm seeing some dummies using the cliché "wardrobe malfunction." Let's remember that the first use of that expression was in an accidentally-on-purpose nonaccident.
MEANWHILE: Gwyneth is auctioning off a lot of her old clothes — clothes that are so normal and un-expensive you might want to just wear them.
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1. Doesn't really look like Paltrow, does it?
2. She's walking very, very carefully.
3. Who doesn't notice the 2 short, plump, Plain Janes chosen for her walkers?
Be honest. She's 54 years old. She went too far with the whole ensemble.
I honestly don't understand why she is getting "backlash." Other female celebs have worn dresses that were at least as revealing.
Yes, its obviously designed that way. Usually the split just goes to the thigh. Were the two shorties in black there for contrast?
"Be honest. She's 54 years old."
And wants to show off her hot bod.
At least we know she doesn’t need to wear Spanx — and isn’t wearing panties.
Wardrobe malfunctions do. not. happen. at red carpet events. Everything is planned when a celebrity spends $10K on a one-off custom designer outfit. This includes Bjork in the swan dress with an egg attached to her foot.
I'm curious whether research has considered whether these outfits appear mainly with young people who want to break out versus older women trying to hold on to fame a bit longer.
Those in their physical and commercial prime likely want everyone to focus on their face and body, not a gimmicky outfit that draws attention on its own.
Does not revel anything you wouldn't see at the beach. And you need to see her at the left side angle. Not a fan of Paltrow, but this is OK. Liked her mother Blythe danner more.
Backlash = publicity. Which was the point.
Hmmm. OK, Achilles, what did you do with Althouse?
I went in for a dermatological screening the other day and remember thinking whether the open in the back gown they give you should be replaced by something like that.
…primo butt…
She's a beautiful woman with a hot body aged for appreciation, dressed for insinuating inferences. Hey, Grok, eyes up here.
If you've got it, flaunt it! (Braniff slogan)
Does one suppose that she's wearing a merkin on her muffly?
An fashion accident from the person who sold a candle named "This Smells Like My Vagina?"
I don't think so.
Trashy. Slightly elegantly trashy, I concede, but trashy nonetheless.
An exemplar of the skewed notion that the more skin a woman shows, the sexier she is. A pervasive notion at these kinds of events, to be sure.
The sweet thing is just reminding us that "power" begins with "p" and she's got it. That her age is even mentioned is a distraction - kinda like gender or color having anything to do with merit.
It looks like naked from the hip but she’s actually wearing sheer pants down to her ankles…
From the reaction of the women on her right as she walks by, I suspect the dress looked the same on the right side. There is one woman sitting on the right side whose mouth is agape, and some of the others look shocked, too. So she basically wore a front and back of a dress pattern that wasn't sewn together. No accident. That fabric had to be pasted on her body to stay put.
That's hot!
I'll be 73 this year . . . and I admire a hot fifty-something who's willing to strut her stuff.
To paraphrase Austin Powers: She's a woman, baby.
Oscar the Grok
A Paltrow parade in white is a lustrous excursion.
Jenny Agutter wore something similar in Logans Run.
It's a beautiful, classic dress from the front. I saw her coming down the steps. Wow, what a nice dress. And then I saw side-boob. And side-leg. Side-everything.
I am a big fan of side-boob, for some reason. And I'm a nipple man. I'm a nipple man who likes side-boob.
That damn sex robot post has got me worked up this morning. Need a cold shower.
Picasso invented the side-boob. Discuss.
Sex robot designer: "The hardest part is pleasing the side-boob purists."
I didn't even realize side-ass was a thing.
Actually, when I watch that video the first time, I missed the side-boob. Because I'm looking down, trying to peek into that damn dress.
The second time I watched that video, I tried keeping my eyes up, to find the side-boob. And there is no damn side-boob. It's a G-rated dress on the top half. Son of a bitch.
Flashing beaver is all the rage in the “Reels” segment of Facebook. Especially popular among young Asian women. With panties, of course. Carefully posed for max camel toe. A little music as a fanfare for the opening of the Pearly Gates.
Saint Croix might say…
I can’t get no
Satisfaction
I can’t get me no
Nipple Action
The Gates of Paradise
‘taint too far from
The Gates of Hell
I think she is competing with the drag queens. This will get interesting.
I got everything I need, almost
I got everything I need, almost
But I don't got you
And you're the thing I need the most
I got a car that I bought
Won't get me far
I gotta wish on a star
Tell me mama
I got everything I need, almost
I got everything I need, almost
But I don't got you
And you're the thing I need the most
I got friends who like me
Cause I got lots of dough
The people recognize me
Wherever I go
I don't got trouble gettin' high
But if I don't get you I believe I will die
I got everything I need, almost
I got everything I need, almost
But I don't got you
And you're the thing I need the most
I got everything I need, almost
I got everything I need, almost
I got everything I need, almost
I got everything I need, almost
But I don't got you
And you're the thing I need the most
Old School, tcrosse! 😁
Nothin’ from nothin’ but Flashing Beaver would be a fine name for a Native American princess, no?
“ The Gates of Paradise
‘taint too far from
The Gates of Hell”
The exhaust is pretty close to the intake. Old Harley joke.
They are using wardrobe malfunction as the search tag for wardrobe malfunctions. It is that close to one.
Great moments in Hollywood history:
https://youtu.be/ulDgOfeWPYs?si=iLMd2i6kg3Bi5BGY
The "stupid people" are using "wardrobe malfunction" to mean poor or questionable fashion choice.
Picasso and the invention of side boob? That recent? What about bare-breasted Minoan snake handlers from 3,600 years ago? Front, top, bottom, and side.
What's old is new. Fashion trends cycle and recycle. It'll come back sooner or later.
Attributes a sensual significance to "make me a sandwich".
She's auctioning off her clothes? For charity? Or is she just not generous and wouldn't consider just giving them to the salvation army like everyone else?
These clothes smell like my vagina.
Whoa.
Long long ago I was told, "Remember, a girl always knows exactly what she's letting you see. There are no accidents."
She's feminine, fabulous, and gay.
Shouting Thomas, I have noticed that on FB Reels. The problem (or the positive result, depending on your POV) is if you watch the first one all the way through, your algorithm pulls in more and more of them.
Jenny Agutter tries the same look in Logans Run, 1976
Iman said...
“…but Flashing Beaver would be a fine name for a Native American princess, no?”
So Elizabeth Warren’s new nickname?
Or in this transgender world, Ward Churchill’s?
It’s all just a race to the bottom.
Look.at.me.godammit.
She’s fat. If the dress don’t fit, tear the seams.
yes but it looked good on her, in the 22nd century,
Damn gurl.
Ye gods, Rocco, I upchucked my breakfast on that one!
goggles they do nothin
The HypeMachine was never Summer's Eve clean.
Kudos. She made "side buttock" a thing, and we haven't seen the last of it.
I like how she parts her hair toward the slit side.
Among a bevy of younger, prettier women, she manages to pull focus towards her. And that's the business of a movie star--to make you look. She's got a good product and knows how to sell it.. You can see what Harvey saw in her.
“Gwyneth Paltrow's dress was my favorite Oscars look when I saw it from the front in the NYT. So well-fitted, elegant, and simple. But now, I'm seeing the side and the effect is entirely different.”
Was there something wrong with it? I thought it was a bit plain from the front, but overall a solid choice.
All the hot body money can buy. I don't recognize that sweet girl from the Brad Pitt days; who's this woman who forgot her panties? She wearing an upside-down adhesive panty protector stuck to her front-end private part? Frankly, gross.
She's not naked, of course. She's wearing a skin-toned body stocking.
But this is an opportunity to bring up a theory I have recently developed:
What's wrong with women these days, so many of them seem continuously irritated and agitated about anything and everything.
It's the thongs.
They must produce a constant irritation in the nethers and unlike normal underwear they're so far up in there that you can't get a hold of anything to pull them away from the more sensitive parts and it's not cool to go deep digging or to ask for help. I feel their pain, or would like to in Gwyneth's case.
Ban the thong and set the ladies and their rectums free.
I was hoping to see a tan line!
I'd like to see what it looked like after sitting for 3 hrs.
Someone posted on X a pic of the balcony seats after the show. Trash everywhere.
So she spent all that time getting a flimsy dress and covered up her woo hoo with a pad anyway? That’s an act of bad faith.
Maybe it was the way she had to walk, but I thought it made her butt look big(ger than you would expect it to look).
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