…oh, wait! In this case, we know. So! Sometimes, less is more.
More scandalous.
More tawdry.
More of a “hot mess” (Thanks, Cicatrix.)
Via the Daily Mail:
She has a legacy of wearing revealing dresses. But it appears at the age of 44, Elizabeth Hurley is still not ready to give up the game.
The actress attended the Love Ball charity fundraiser last night in a dazzling blue sari WITHOUT the cropped top, a Choli or Ravika, which is typically worn underneath it.
Ravika? There’s a word I’ve never heard. According to Wiki, it’s Telugu. The more you know (Ahhhhhhh!). Back to shiz, I mean, Liz:
The mother-of-one left nothing to the imagination in the ensemble, showing she still has the voluptuous figure to carry off even the most risqué of numbers
I think she could have shown that even with the briefest of blouses. But I’m a rude prude. Some have said that she was probably caught unaware, much like Alexandra Kerry was at Cannes. What, you think Kerry knew her girls would show through? I don’t. She would’ve worn different knickers, if THAT were true. But back to Miz Nangi. I agree with the Daily Mail:
As someone used to attending showbiz parties, she would probably have been aware of the revealing glare of the paparazzi flashbulb.
But it was unclear whether the revealing nature of her outfit was a ‘sheer’ accident or intentional.
Liz was accompanied by her Indian textile heir husband Arun Nayar, who she married in 2007.
Adding to the craptacular effect? Those wild raccoon eyes. Sure, there are smoky eyes and then there are cautionary tales about the dangers of shadow and liner, when applied with a spatula. Perhaps I’m being too harsh? Did any of you find her fetching? Or does the collage below the jump (25-50% NSFW) leave you retching?
Anyone else thought it was funny to note that her husband is a textile industrialist?
However, I found them fetching. Wardrobe malfunction anyone?
*** Anyone else thought it was funny to note that her husband is a textile industrialist? ***
Most of Arun Nayar’s money comes from owning a software company in 1990s
Hmm, very see-through.
Historically speaking, when did women starting wearing blouses under their saris? I remember some of the Satyajit Ray films show women and girls wearing the sari without a blouse. Did it happen due to British colonial rule? Or for some other reason?
“Ravikai”, with an “i”, is used to refer blouse in thamizh as well. I agree with you, the eye makeup is super bad – wonder what she thought when she looked at herself in the mirror…
His father does own a textile company.
a funnier thread title would have been “Choli ke peeche kya hai”.
She looks good but that eye make up is hideous.
Am I the only person wishing that she had worn a nice Kanjeevaram? Good figure no excuse for bad taste in saris.
linzi, i bet the distribution would vary by class and time. i know that peasant mappila (the dominant muslim community in kerala) women in the early 20th century worked in the fields topless. there was a reform movement for them to cover up (i read that yemeni origin clerics introduced the reforms), which caused conflict with their hindu overlords. you can find it on google books. anyway, long story short, i think the ubiquity of cheap clothing today makes the modern dynamics way different from the pre-modern ones. irish catholic men and women before the 19th century were reputed to bath in rivers naked together, to the horror of anglo-protestant observers, but part of it might have been a function of the general lack of privacy in the hovels in which they lived, as well as the often ill-fitting or patchy rags which they often wore.
Here’s what wikipedia has to say about the choli:
So perhaps her interest was in historical authenticity? Seriously though, I don’t think she anticipated the way she came across, otherwise she wouldn’t have tried to “cover up” later in the evening with the folder.
“So perhaps her interest was in historical authenticity? Seriously though, I don’t think she anticipated the way she came across, otherwise she wouldn’t have tried to “cover up” later in the evening with the folder.”
hehe. I don’t think she anticipated it either. Rather embarrassing for her, I’m sure.Luckily is seemed to only affect the left boob, so one folder was enough to preserve her remaining ijjat for the trip home. 😛
babe-alicious!
hmm. very uncool to put nsfw nip slip pictures BEFORE the jump.
It’s one picture in a collage of four. Is it THAT nsfw? I’m open to just removing it if it’s such an issue.
my policy on these things is better safe than sorry. yr call.
Kerala women were dressed like this. They did not cover the breast completely.naked or half naked.
http://www.keralapals.com/gallery/albums/pazhassi-raja/Pazhassi_raja_mammootty_sarath_kumar_kaniha_pathma_priya_pals_1099_14.jpg
I think the funniest part of this whole thing was the fact that all of the proceeds from the Love Ball go the Naked Heart Foundation.
I was surprised to see Liz without a blouse because she’s been photographed wearing a blouse with her sari in all of the previous photos I’ve seen of her.
Did not notice the hideous eye makeup till someone pointed it out.
This post is going to get you all kinds of fun search terms from Google =)
Offensive, unattractive and, frankly, quite unclassy. Call me a “rude prude” if you will but, the sari is one of the most beautiful garments there is. EH just ruined it.
She looks astonishingly good for a 45 year old. As her spectacular assets indicate, gravity seems to have been held at bay. Genes or scalpel… hard to tell.
She has firm breasts for her age.
The husband Arun Nayar is half-german. Looks pretty short.
P.S. Bangladeshi village women don’t wear blouses either. Could be because of the poverty. The little kids go around naked.
What’s with all the fluff? Where is the post on Bloom Energy? It was not even the news section. An indian-american making BIG news in technology is not good enough for Sepia Mutiny but a british girl married to a half-german not living in the US is?
To choli or not to choli aside, something worse than the raccoon eyes are her feet jammed into her shoes…its pretty scary
Close up available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/23/elizabeth-hurley-dons-she_n_474257.html
Did anyone notice her ugly (as compared to the rest of her body) wrinkled feet in the second pic in the Huffington link above ?
And what’s with the complaining about a free website? We post what interests us. We are not a newspaper. Six years ago we saw a void and SM began. If you see a void in certain coverage…well…
Where is the post on Bloom Energy?
i saw a link from the news tab a few days ago. just so you know.
There must have been some kind of sports-bra type strapping-down technique if they wanted to do any strenuous physical activity. I can’t imagine it would be easy to be running around with all that. . . bouncyness.
Aww, someone beat me to the ‘choli ke peeche kya hai?’ joke. 🙁
i am not very bothered with the braless situation – as many have pointed out, blouses are a rather modern invention. it also doesn’t hurt that she seems to have quite nice breasts. on the other hand, that atrocious pleating (or practically lack of it) is wholly offensive. liz has previously worn sarees so well, and it makes me wonder what went wrong here…
How modern does it have to be before it becomes indecent?
I mean, I agree that it’s no big deal but I just don’t see how blouses being a modern invention has anything to do with it. Clothing in general can be called “modern” compared to the days our ancient ancient ancestors were covered in fur.
Good to see lots of people unknowingly supporting the Male privileges (going topless)
The same people who would tell going topless is such a vulgarity would tell that women wearing burkha or Amish girls as repression by the society. A saying in my mother tongue roughly translates to “everyone thinks according to the orientation of their nose”
what i meant was,the recent generations have been socially conditioned to think that a blouse (and bra) are complusory with a saree.
She’s wearing it without a petticoat. Perhaps it really is a nod to the pre-victorian era. Not perfect, but her drape is close to some of the various saree drapes sans petticoat.
A mock against Saree and Indian culture 🙂 ?????
These pictures have deserve to be posted on boingboing.net – similar rhythm 🙂
Perfect. That’s one good-looking 44-year old. Can our MDix match her in her fight against gravity? MDix is our only hope.
Mallu actresses are a different story. Sheela/Jayabharati bunch gave up the fight against gravity in their 20s. Shakeela gaveup in her teens. The new bunch seems to hold up (no pun!) till they are 30, after that is’s all downhill (no pun! serious!). Genetics I guess..
OMG! I saw the close up of her feet too! I have to agree they are way more frightening than her perky semi-exposed nipple. Her feet look like they are 90 years old.
i’m with you ak….don’t really care about the peep show, but a nice pleating job could have saved the sari. did anyone notice the bow at the waist? a new belted fashion trend? or more evidence that she was completely unprepared…? someone with a gentler hand should have handled that make-up job.
Akash (and other men), you could be just happy looking at the pictures because ‘cool dress sense’ is limited to celebrities. Personally, over the years I don’t get too much excited by exposed body parts..may be I am too old or have seen a lot on beaches, pools, spas etc.
Saree looks good on her but I liked less revealing picture of Alexandra Kerry.
Oh brave anonymous commenters, complaining about a blog which no one forces you to read, because of some arbitrary “baseline” standard for quality which is defined by YOUR preferences and expectations: get over your sense of entitlement and find some other website to troll and post abusive comments on. Banned. Anyone else?
Yes it was. I posted it there as I was watching 60 minutes live. And I tweeted about it. But all that aside, if you THOUGHT it wasn’t in the news section, why didn’t you post it there? That is what the news section is for.
Old tradition in my community was that women wore sari blouses until they were married. Then after marriage they did not have to. However, they saris they wore were not sheer so there was no exhibitionism. Nowadays of course blouses are always worn regardless of marital status.
SM Intern,
I like this site. There are always some people who complain…..
I found out about this site only 3 or 4 months back. Good job 🙂
Most blogs are good and if something is not relevant, readers can ignore.
Tradition of Saree Wearing:-
Guys how far back are you going with regard to tradition of saree wearing? If you go too far back, humans did not wear anything.
Can we stick with last 100 years? 1900 to now…
Yo this is the most releventest SM post this year. because we got to respect our women, you know what I mean? I think Liz Hurl is just trying to be post-modern and flip some traditional shit to some new fangled post-colonial style. We all got our opinions but let’s be real, Liz is fly! And fashionable so she can do what she has to and ain’t no body on Sep Mutiny or the internet going to say nothing about it that would make it mean something, you feel me? The cat who was talkina bout the pre-victorian days, maybe she was reading some books and was trying to do it up that way. Throwback style, old school? She fly though, eff it!
“what i meant was,the recent generations have been socially conditioned to think that a blouse (and bra) are complusory with a saree.”
aren’t they though? Reminds me of the seinfeld episode where sue ellen mishke wore the bra as a top.
chakma wrote:
Didn’t Dhaka have enormous textile mills during the pre-colonial period?
one grl used to wear bikini top under her sari at community gatherings. I always thoguth she looks sltty. This is even slttier looking.
Razib,
It wasn’t just mappila women, rather any woman who was not Brahmin didn’t have the right to cover up. The movement that eventually won those rights is called “Maru Marakkal Samaram” ( Chest covering revolt). As far as I know there were no Yemeni involvement, rather it was mostly women (and some men) of Kerala who fought for it. My understanding is that all women of Kerala had this right by 1859.