Sheers at the Critics Choice

Lily James in Oscar de la Renta

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock (13713375fc) Lily James 28th Annual Critics' Choice Awards, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 15 Jan 2023 Wearing Oscar de la Renta

Well, get out the maple syrup and soften your butter, everyone, because pancakes are on the menu today. It's hard to say whether she knew the top would provide such a thorough outline of her chest? PROBABLY? This whole mess backfired in every way. I think Lily is missing a sophistication in her overall styling, and I'd love to see her find some.

Anya Taylor-Joy in Dior

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 15: Anya Taylor-Joy attends the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on January 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Well, I like her hair and makeup. And this would have been nice with a lining. It's just silly to me without one.

Julia Garner in Ferragamo

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock (13713375fw) Julia Garner 28th Annual Critics' Choice Awards, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 15 Jan 2023 Wearing Ferragamo

Once again I am celebrating the head-styling, and the necklace, my god, it's fantastic. But what a sad smock. I will give Lily James, for example, that her garment had some personality to it. This is so blah. I do not think it has confidence in itself. It could never believably play Fraulein Maria in The Sound of Music without LYING its way through that song.

Janelle Monae in Vera Wang

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock (13716304yh) Janelle Monae arrives at the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards at The Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, in Los Angeles 2023 Critics Choice Awards - Arrivals, Los Angeles, United States - 15 Jan 2023

I think we are seeing nipple covers, not nipples, but the outfit is no less sheer either way. This looks like ruched drapes in a bordello.

Quinta Brunson in Robert Wun

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock (13716304cd) Quinta Brunson arrives at the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards at The Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, in Los Angeles 2023 Critics Choice Awards - Arrivals, Los Angeles, United States - 15 Jan 2023

THE WAY I YELPED. Robert Wun has so many beautifully rendered outfits, with razor-precise pleating. There HAS to be a better one they could have picked. She looks like a depressing parade float.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stewart Cook/Shutterstock (13713379aw) Quinta Brunson 28th Annual Critics' Choice Awards, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 15 Jan 2023 Wearing Robert Wun

When she stands this way and works it with the top, it's better? But it's also more obviously sheer. I hoped for more for her this year, but also perversely am thrilled because I enjoy the rush of the OMG WHAT moment.

Kate Hudson in Oscar de la Renta

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock (13713375ha) Kate Hudson 28th Annual Critics' Choice Awards, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 15 Jan 2023 Wearing Oscar de la Renta

Kate's technically qualifies here, even though it's only sheer from the mid-thigh down. It would look a lot nicer if it weren't, though. It looks like a bubble bath that's slowly losing its suds.

Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Bitsie Tulloch

And Bitsie's dress is NOT sheer, I don't think; that seems like very thick material meant to match her skin tone, and is a great example of how a dress does not ACTUALLY have to give it all up in order to have a sexy effect. I think she looks super. (They, by the way, are your current Superman and Lois Lane on The CW.)