Megan Mullally, a successful actress, comedian, and singer, is gearing up for one of the biggest professional events of her life, but there’s just one glaring problem.
The Will and Grace star has landed the prestigious gig of hosting the 2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards, one of Hollywood’s biggest award shows and red carpet events, yet no designers will deign to dress her for the occasion.
In a post on Instagram, Megan joked about the “glamour” of attempting to source her own dress for the televised event, even though she will probably take up the lion’s share of screen time as the person who is actually running the show.
“It looks like I will be buying my dress online,” she wrote. “Designers do not send me dresses. I’m online scrolling through the gowns sections of various websites- which I know how to do pretty well at this point- and then I tried to order something from Saks Fifth Avenue and they canceled my order.”
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I've been short & plump all my life - even at my thinnest ( which really was pretty small ).
It's a good thing that I've always found mainstream fashion utterly boring and unimaginative.
No designer would ever be humble enough to send me clothes either.
My choice in clothing has always been sort of hippy / gothic.
I love the colors, the floaty cotton fabrics or the velvets.
You won't find those in Myer, DJ's or Susanne. (these were the mainstream outlets when I was "under 40".
You'd never have caught me wearing white pants, white shirts ( unless it was under a black vest - quite a different sensibility ).
To find clothes that actually fitted and draped properly I would haunt the "Indian shops".
Places like "Tree of Life" were ( and still are ) my refuge when the world seemed to go "skinny-fashion" mad - plus they smell good.
Most market-stalls are cool too.
I'm grateful for my body - it's served me well despite the various health issues over the years.
By not being able to conform to the brain-washed norm it may have saved me from being part of a tribe to which I could never have been accepted into or belonged.
Wouldn't the obvious solution be for other famous women to stop supporting companies that are like that?
Then they'd literally have nothing to wear. All mainstream clothing companies use exceedingly small sample sizes. It would be great to have alternatives that cater to normal sizes rather than assuming all women are the size of a toothpick, but that's not how the world works right now.
But then how did Leslie Jones get outfits for fashion week? She's basically built like an Amazonian and she was dressed fashionably.
There's companies out there that make clothes for people of any shape, but as long as the ones who make trendy or size 0 stuff are the ones getting pushed to the front on red carpets and by the worlds most famous/fashionable women, they're not going to change anything.
But then how did Leslie Jones get outfits for fashion week? She's basically built like an Amazonian and she was dressed fashionably and looked great.
There's companies out there that make clothes for people of any shape, but as long as the ones who make trendy or size 0 stuff are the ones getting pushed to the front on red carpets and by the worlds most famous/fashionable women, they're not going to change anything.
A quick Google search would suggest that only a couple of designers have agreed to give her free merchandise in return for some really nice publicity as being the only designers willing to "dress her". They'd want a return on their investment too, as it means they'd need to make something specifically for her, rather than just lending their (already made) sample sizes to rail-thin celebrities.
When celebrities are "dressed by" a design house, it usually means the clothes were already made as a sample, not for the celebrity specifically. The latter is obviously a far more expensive and time-consuming option, that usually entails contractual dressing agreements - think Jennifer Lawrence (another not-size-two actress) and Dior. Conversely, the majority of red carpet "dressed by" situations involves off-the-rack samples.