Shoeby Dooby Doo

Wendy, Wendy, Wendy. What are we gonna do with you?

The confusion on their faces is priceless. You just know they thought someone sent the model down the runway in the wrong outfit.

It's practically impossible to critique this outfit. Like sending a food critic to McDonald's. What can you say other than "It's a postal uniform"? Of course that's not entirely true. It's THE postal uniform. As in, the one that already exists. She even used the exact same colors and fabrics. Is there a creative bone in her body?

Wait, what? What is going on with those seams? This looks like someone's first sewing project. Actually, it looks like some reanimated corpse sewing project. Frankensewing.

Stern Daddy drew the short straw and the producers shoved him through the workroom doors to stage an intervention.

Look how gingerly he's handling that shoe. As if someone just died wearing it or there's still a foot in it.

Just once, we'd love to see Tim throw caution and diplomacy to the wind.

"I tried. She's tacky and talentless and she shouldn't even be here. What do you want from me?"

Meanwhile, Tim's little intervention awoke every personality flaw in her psyche - and they woke up hungry and screaming.

To the sheer delight (mixed with horror) of her competitors, Wendy has now become completely indistinguishable from the piss-covered crazies wandering the streets.

Someone's obviously getting strangled in the little scenario playing in her head. We just love the irony of her pacing back and forth, trying to come up with a way to defend the ugly shoes, while wearing...UGLY SHOES! Wendy, you are so metatextual.


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Life In Scarlettland

Apparently, in Scarlettland mail carriers look like blueberries. Or Paddington Bear. We suspect Scarlettland is a magical place with beautiful people.

Oh, honey no. This was another instance of Austin being handed a challenge that was completely outside his milieu. Just not his thang. That poncho looks awfully impractical. It would also look downright comical on anyone over a size 2, which is of course incredibly rare in the Scarlettland Postal Service where everyone is willowy.

It's cute...kinda. But it's not a mail carrier uniform. A Tastee-Freeze uniform maybe. In 1966. But USPS? We don't see it.

It is quite beautifully tailored and fits her well. The colors are pretty. This concludes the nice things we can say about it.

Seriously, it's a cute if uninspired little outfit. It's just totally wrong for this challenge.

They look like some uber-fabulous, multicultural version of Karen and Richard Carpenter, don't they? The Carpenthiers. Now that we think about it, if Martinique had broken out in an impromptu rendition of Close to You on the runway, it just might have sold it enough to the judges.



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Jaybird: Always a bridesmaid...

Once again, a Project Runway designer is forced to walk the cold streets of New York, whorin' for models.

What's up with that? Twice in one season, the model just doesn't show up. For all the on-camera drama, was Jay really in any danger of being auf'd because his model didn't show up? How is that fair?

Then again, look at the exotic creature he managed to find. Ladies and Gentlemen, the new face of Lancôme.

All joking aside, this was another gorgeous outfit that probably suffered from being a little too close to Kara Saun's concept. And as great a job as Jay did here, Kara Saun's was just better.

Sashay shanté, girl!

Love the giant sports logo-esque version of the USPS logo. Hate the stormtrooper boots.

We would have loved to have seen the pants outside the boots because they look beautifully tailored. Lorenzo thought the fabric was way too disco, though.

He also did a fantastic job on that vest. Although, on a second (third, fourth, fifth, sixth) look, we're not all that crazy about the color of the turtleneck.

No doubt, it's a great-looking outfit and aside from the shitkicker boots, we're not sure what the Duchess saw that was "butch" about it (then again, consider the source - not exactly an expert on "butch"). Somehow, it had less of a uniform vibe than Kara Saun's and looked more like an outfit someone put together for a day out.

These are all minor quibbles, though. In any other circumstances, this would be a clear winner. It just so happened that Kara Saun came up with roughly the same design and managed to hit one out of the park.



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Do Svidanya, Robbio!

We're feeling uncharacteristically kind-hearted.

To be honest, conceptually, this was actually a very good idea. It's the execution that was piss-poor.

We thought that the basic idea behind it was sound. It still looked like a uniform but with slightly more style and with comfort and ease of movement as the main attributes.

That's all well and good, but unfortunately, the end product was ugly. The fabric looked cheap and the colors were drab and a little depressing. It was also unusually poorly made. Not that Robert ever demonstrated master tailoring skills, but he was usually able to pull something together that looked, you know...done.

That top is an utter disaster. You just know Olga's all "I left Russia for this?"

Here's the thing: we think the judges ignored their own criteria in this instance. Time and time again, in all 3 seasons of the show, when the decision came down to aufing a designer who took some risks and failed and aufing a designer who took no risks, the judges always keep the designer who took the risks. Not so in this case. They'd never admit it, but we suspect the judges had come to the same question that the remaining designers had all been asking: "What is Rob still doing here?" Whatever he designed, unless it turned out to be some sort of masterpiece (which was about as likely as Wendy deciding not to be a sociopath), the judges had it in for him and he was going to go this week.

Don't get us wrong, we're not defending the outfit. It was definitely bad. And yes, it really was time for him to go, but it felt like the judges didn't have a good enough reason to do so and just sort of glossed over that part of the discussion.



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S1/E8: Congratulations Kara Saun (again)!

Quickie recap: The designers are forced to spend the day working for the post office so they can gather ideas about how best to redesign the postal uniform. As per usual, drama and hilarity ensue. You can read Tim's Take on this episode here.

God, this was gorgeous. The judging was unusually good this week and we have to reiterate what Duchess Kors said: somehow, she managed to make a postal uniform look sexy while still looking like a postal uniform.

While we think this outfit would look good on a variety of body types, we question how many male postal carriers would like to wear those pants, fabulous though they may be.

Aside from that very minor quibble, this outfit was perfection. The colors are gorgeous and that alone could have given her the win, since one doesn't normally associate rich beautiful tones with the US Postal Service uniform.

That vest? We covet. Not enough to apply to be a postal carrier, mind you, but we covet it nonetheless.

And the hat? Shut UP! Where can we get one? That sweater is gorgeous too. Perfectly fitted, like everything Kara Saun does.

Honestly, it's almost difficult to write about this because we gush and gush and then we realize we're going apeshit over a mail carrier's uniform. But seriously, how can we not? This was masterful. It still looks recognizably like what it's supposed to be but unlike, say...every work uniform ever designed in the history of the world, this is actually stylish, hot, and flattering to a bunch of different ages and body types.

Kara Saun, you make being a fashion bitch very difficult because you're so annoyingly even-keeled and consistent, but damn girl, you totally deserved this win.



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Episode 8 - Preview

Watch it here.



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