SAG BARES ITS SHOULDERS

Were the SAG awards a little dressier than usual?
 
All that pent-up celebrity fashion energy waiting to safely explode on a red carpet somewhere came out at the 2008 SAG Awards. Celebrities having missed the Golden Globes and perhaps thinking ahead that there might not even be an Oscars, got glammed up for the SAGS.
 
Strapless dresses, not new since there were plenty at past awards shows- are hot. Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Vanessa Williams, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer (in Versace), Amanda Bynes, Marion Cotillard and Jamie-Lynn Sigler (in Calvin Klein), all bared their shoulders which must be the new erogenous zone.

But wouldn't it have been nice to see "Juno" star Ellen Page in something super cute or youthful? Instead the young actress went deadly serious in a short, black Zac Posen. Ditto for winner Edie Falco, who would have done well to channel the style of her alter ego Mrs. Soprano and jazz up that yawn of a sheath dress she wore.
 
Tilda Swinton looked fabulous. Cate Blanchett was sublime in Balenciaga by Nicholas Ghesquiere. Eva Longoria Parker scored in metalllic white from Naeem Khan. Tilda Swinton, Glenn Close and America Ferrera were sophisticated in gray. In fact, grays & whites were a counterpoint to the color guard led by Vanessa Williams, Kate Beckinsale and Kyra Sedgewick in electric blue or bright yellow



Both Tilda Swinton's choice of jacket over dress and Julie Christie's feminine tux are inspirations for women out there looking for an alternative to the ubiquitous, skimpy, red carpet gown.