Carrie Underwood in Nicolas Jebran

This isn't objectively terrible, though I think she'd have done better with a skirt cut straight across. What undoes Carrie sometimes is her posing -- she looks like she's rounding out her back and hunching forward slightly, or something. It's like she just binged about four seasons of ANTM and is trying to take way too much of Tyra's advice all at once.

Danielle Bradbury

Some people will attend the opening of an envelope; some attend dressed AS the envelope.

Jennifer Nettles

Oh, good, a skirt with a built-in necktie! This is JUST the practical touch we need.

Karen Fairchild

This is the absolute last time the Tin Man gets to be ANYONE'S fairy godmother. But what we're really looking at here is...

... her tiny guitar purse. That is adorable, but there's no way she can fit anything in there except maybe one lipstick and a very compact travel tampon.

Kelly Clarkson

SPEAKING OF ACCESSORIES.

in Alex Perry

Kelly seems to be having a lot more fun with fashion lately, and I love it, but here I think the head-styling has gone WAY overboard and stomps on what's actually a very nice dress on her.

Kaitlin Doubleday in Georges Chakra

Wow, I regret quitting Nashville -- apparently one hell of a tornado ripped through her closet.

Clare Bowen

That little bob without the hair extensions is all I ever wanted on Clare, and I'm so tickled. But I seriously thought her boots were jewel-encrusted long johns for a moment. They are... perhaps best work with a shorter skirt.

Maisie and Lennon Stella

I miss these ladies. Maisie looks darling. Lennon looks like she is about to get kicked out of Catholic school for uniform violations.

Mickie James

Somehow this feels like the alpha and omega of the CMTs, and if Kellie Pickler were here, don't you think she'd be envious?

Chrissy Metz

Whereas this is very sedate and sensible -- not her best, but nowhere NEAR her worst.

Grainger Smith

Oh, son. You don't have to, you know.

Rainee Blake

BRAS ARE NOT SHIRTS. CAN WE JUST NOT.

Cassadee Pope

By comparison, her bathmat of a skirt looks totally sensible.

Garrett Hedlund

"Is any of this a thing? I don't know, you guys, it's been AGES since I was in Country Strong."

Lindsey Vonn

And of course, here comes Noted Country Superstar Lindsey Vonn. Although, for as overwrought as that bodice is, she also looks about the best I've seen her in a long time.

with PK Subban

She is dating Nashville hockey player PK Subban, who usually has a zazzier sense of style than this, but he looks great.

Karen Fairchild

Just so you know, Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town changed into a blouse made of disco packing material.

Carrie Underwood

And Carrie changed into a leotard that's weeping groin fringe, while singing a song about crying. She's so on-the-nose that she's pretty much crawled up inside it. 

The CMTs Were Quite The Fashion Experience

As usual, and cheers to them for it.