Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by a wonky piece of material randomly tacked onto a dress. For a March 2019 appearance on Hallmark’s “Home & Family,” Lacey Chabert wore a fitted little black dress with a respectable below-the-knee hemline. Her outfit would have been so appropriate that it would have been dull if not for the asymmetrical neckline and odd flap of fabric folded over her chest on one side of the garment.
Chabert and her co-star Brennan Elliott were on “Home & Family” to promote their Hallmark Mystery movie “Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For,” but Chabert’s puzzling outfit probably distracted some viewers from what she was saying. Perhaps they even found themselves trying to think of a 14-letter phrase for a sartorial mistake.
It’s as though Chabert suddenly remembered it was Wednesday, chopped off a corner of one of her daughter’s princess pink sheets, and super-glued it onto the garment to create an avant-garde knockoff of the black-and-pink minidress that Lindsay Lohan wears in “Mean Girls.” There’s just one problem with this theory — Gretchen Wieners’ weekly dose of pink came one day too late, as her interview was conducted on a Thursday. Regina George would surely revoke her pink privileges over such an egregious violation of The Plastics’ dress code.
