The Grammy Awards are for music’s brightest to showcase their talents. The 51st annual Grammy Awards did just that. As well as spotlighted fashions that were awe inspiring and not always in a good way.

Up for the Best Album of the year, Jennifer Hudson showcased a black and white short dress with a gray insert around the middle. She came back later in a black sequin dress which caressed her curves and looked classy and oh so Hollywood. With all she had gone through, she gave new meaning to the statement “the show must go on.” We love you Jennifer!

It was good to see Whitney Houston in front of the camera again. She looked healthy and quite lovely in a Grecian inspired draped dress in blue and white. Welcome back Whitney!

A vision of grace and loveliness was Miley Cyrus in a black dress that shows this young lady has grown up.

Pregnancy is hard on anyone but if you are so uncomfortable that you have to dress in the messy way that MIA did, Stay home! That blue print yards of fabric and tennis shoes left me speechless.

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I hate to feel so smug but I am not the only one discussing Angelina Jolie’s dress. No one is questioning the beauty of the wearer, but I question the selection of the dress. The color is just too dull and matronly and now it’s being questioned if the dress was on backwards. Well folks, if it was then it would have let us have a view of her knees from the top! It would have covered her horrible tattoos if turned around. Let’s bury this bone and pray she picks a better dress for the Oscars. OMG!!! This means I will have to watch another awards show.

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The SAG awards brought out the beautiful and brightest actors to walk the Red Carpet. I must admit this is the first time in my life that I had watched one of these shows in its entirety. I am not a big fan of evening clothes. I think it is because of the fact that I worked nights for decades, and didn’t have a need for this type of attire.

The one thing that was very apparent was that color was everywhere. Prominent were shades of red and coral, and many shades of yellow, reminiscent of the first lady, Michelle Obama’s, inaugural outfit. Some of the ladies tried to go “old Hollywood” and it was really nice to see beautiful women in dresses fitted and draped on perfect, if not too thin, bodies.

Angelina Jolie is a great actress, but her dress left me cold. This navy number was very plain in front with flutter sleeves. The surprise was that the back plunged to a depth that caused me to hold my breath. She chose to wear or not wear nude lip color. I thought she looked too pale.

Although I only saw Phylicia Rashard in a sitting position, her paisley print looked as if it would have been better at a PTA meeting.

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Aretha singing at the inauguration

Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat

I have a history with the lady of soul, Ms. Aretha Franklin. Me as one of her greatest fans, and she as an artist that has a voice that can make the angels cry. I have long wondered who dresses this artist and what are they smoking while they are doing it. As a large sized women myself, dressing can be tricky especially having to be out front and on stage. But what she covers herself with often makes a blind man glad of not being able to see!

The gray coat she wore was classy but that hat. I think I have the idea that it was fashioned after. It was similar to African head wraps, but it missed its point with fashion advisers all over the world, who were laughing and making fun of it. One fashion critic did say that she is larger than life and they were not eluding to her physical size. They did say that she could carry it off.

I would like to say, Aretha you are a class act. And you put a real hurtin’ on the song “My Country Tis of Thee.” Please find someone that can bring out the best in your fashion style and not make you a joke!

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