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"Modern" etiquette seems to allow for holding a red wine glass by its bowl.  Sorry, but no.  Please don't do this unless you want to look like a heathen.

This has always been one of my pet peeves.  I don't know why - - okay forget that, I do know why!  How gross is a wine glass covered with someone's greasy fingerprints?  Or for that matter sloppy lip gloss (for god's sake, BLOT before you drink).  But not only for etiquette, but for practical reasons - - the temperature of both red and white wines (more so white) are kept better when you don't handle the bowl.

Since we're at the end of the year now, I think it's time to award the "Cheesiest Dresser of the Year Award".  I am going to have to say, without bias, Heidi Montag.  (I say without bias because I don't watch her show; and I've heard that if you do, one would have even more reason to dislike her.)

Here are some classic examples:

Yikes, I hope she had this dress taped on because her ridiculous fake boobs are about to fall out. And check out the hooker shoes, um, yuck!

This I don't even need to comment on, it speaks for itself.

Here we've got some really dumb looking and too short high waisted shorts with a weird scarf-shirt thing. Chanel sandals and an Hermes bag cannot even come close to redeeming this.

This dress looks like polyester that cost $10, it's what a hooker wears when she's trying to dress up and look proper.  And the shoes... uggghhhh!

Again horrible shoes, and why is she carrying that bag?  Totally doesn't match. The dress could have worked if she could ever mange to keep things simple.

Hot?  No, just nasty and cheap looking.  And sorry, those thighs are just not thin enough to wear shorts that short.

It's clearly a very sad case.  I wish her better luck in 2009. 

This morning as I was waiting for the subway I saw the most ridiculous site - - a man wearing the knee high Ugg boots with his 7 jeans tucked into them!  Okay, and I mean the Ugg boots that all the girls wear, these:

It was so horrible. I wanted to tell him, like hello buddy, this is not LA... you just CANNOT wear that in New York.  I wish I had snuck a picture, because when you google for pictures of men in Ugg boots there is not even one at this level of ridiculous (meaning the high boots which are much more ridiculous).  Even when you go to the Ugg Australia website, they do not show the high boots in the Men's section.  They make the boots - - so they must like them, and not even they can advocate such a thing!

The April issue of Vogue, the "Shape Issue", features an article about Laura and Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte.  Apparently Vogue asked them last Fall to go on a 4 month program of personal training and healthy meal delivery, to be featured in this issue.  I found the article that accompanied their (the sisters') journal about the experience so smug and distasteful. It's truly cringe-worthy.  Here are a few quotes from Sally Singer's article. "Our hope was that these two talented sisters could learn to spend a little time on themselves and not devote every hour of every day to making magical, ineffably gorgeous dresses."  [nothing like a good old veiled insult] "We wanted these two young women to learn good habits now, so that they would have the peace of mind and the energy to prosper..."   [WTF, how insulting!]  "They were (and are) perfectly happy with themselves, regardless of what the scale or the jeans label says.  Both are completely without vanity where their own looks are concerned. (How rare to find women with such values. If only we could clone their parents!)"  [yeah, right we almost believe that you appreciate their values]

Uggh.  When did we all forget that vanity is a vice not a virtue?  I'm not saying that I'm against vanity or advocate lack of personal care I just think it's gross that Vogue would publish this when they clearly do not appreciate these two women at all, to Vogue they may be great designers but they just don't fit in unless they conform to the fashion world ideal better.

Ugg boots have got to be one of the worst trends that have ever plagued fashion.  They've been going strong for years now.  When will this stop?  Please make it stop.  I suppose they must be comfortable, but since when does comfort have anything to do with fashion?  Even more ridiculous is that these sheep herder boots are often seen at the beach or with shorts.  UGG for sure, or should I say FUG?  Even worse. "Australian" Ugg Boots are made in China.

There have been some photos out recently of Nicole Kidman with just ridiculously large lips. Ugghh.  Why? Why? Why oh why would a beautiful woman make herself look like a clown like this?  Okay, I know "thin lips" are not attractive, but huge ridiculous lips, come on?  I guess this is nothing new.  I was watching season 4 of Las Vegas on dvd and I see that Nikki Cox's lips in this season have continued their trend of getting larger every season.  (other serial offenders: Lara Flynn Boyle, Meg Ryan, Donatella Versace) I certainly believe in making one's self better, even with plastic surgery etc. (if absolutely necessary), but it should be at a level that is not completely obnoxious.  These designer noses, huge boobs and clown lips have just gone too far.  This is not attractive in any way. Please world, stop.