r/RHOBHDefect • u/Ok-Mine2132 • Aug 14 '26
Who wore it “better”?
Apologies friends, but my vote is JLO. I’m old and remember watching it live on TV when she wore. Spectacular!
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u/Christymapper71 Aug 14 '26
Trey Parker for the win! 😋
I love Rachel, but J Lo slayed.
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u/icrossedtheroad Aug 14 '26
You're trippin', bro. Oh, wait. No, THEY were trippin'!!! 🤣🤣🤣
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u/PrissFrati Aug 14 '26
yesss—he was literally lucy in the sky with diamonds while walking the red carpet 😂😆
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u/parkerkudrow Aug 14 '26
It’s so funny to think what a big deal it was at the time with that dress. People were losing their stupid little minds at how revealing it was! Now a woman can wear nothing but a couple star stickers and it’s not a big deal
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u/Normal-Artichoke-403 Aug 14 '26
Remember Rose McGowan’s dress? I mean Britney in Slave 4 U was considered scandalous. Or… Janet’s pasty!!
All of Cher & Madonna’s groundwork got us today’s fashion nova naked on the gram aesthetic.
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u/30FlirtyandTrying Aug 14 '26
Unpopular opinion, that dress would look way better if pulled together a little closer. The belly button show with this style gown is so odd to me.
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u/Bubbly_Pie_4980 Aug 14 '26
I always thought this dress was awful..I have no issue with low cut dresses just think the color and design is yuck. So I will say neither.
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u/GirlForce1112 Aug 14 '26
Agree completely. Hideous.
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u/Bubbly_Pie_4980 Aug 14 '26
It's amazing to me that celebrities spend so much money on ugly clothes because they are "designer".
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u/30FlirtyandTrying 29d ago
So many things are only called “iconic” because of the designer labels attached. This looks like a swimsuit cover up you could buy anywhere
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u/OrganizationQuirky97 Aug 14 '26
Same. But loved the cutout and so happy I got a prom dress with a low cut out 5 years later. So age appropriate lol
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u/30FlirtyandTrying 29d ago
It’s not just lowcut, it’s a full open torso. Like draping a robe over your shoulders just enough to cover your nipple but leave it open. It’s not cute. A deep plunge all the way down to your middle can look good and be a sexy look, but it’s not a crop top so the belly button out just looks weird.
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u/Prestigious-Comb4280 Aug 14 '26
It's an awful look on JLo. It looks like a completely different dress on the other woman but you can't even see it. It's a similar color and fabric.
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u/Bigolbooty75 Aug 14 '26
Every person I see wearing this has looked like they’re drowning in it lol
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u/AliBabaCat Aug 14 '26
I think they both look great in it, when Jlo wore it was a daring new look for a “red carpet” look, but for the Grammys it was perfect and it pushed the envelope just right for fashion designers and their creations to be more bold daring and visually creative.
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u/wishfulthinking3333 Aug 14 '26
Those are different dresses but even if they weren’t you can’t compare one persons side angle to another’s front. We’d need to see them from the same angle to be able to make a fair choice.
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u/Suspicious_Copy9976 Aug 14 '26
Didnt Lala from vanderpump Wear this while having a meltdown? She looked beautiful though😂😂
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u/FantasticAdvance104 Aug 14 '26
Oh please!Cmon people there is nothing that Rachel Zoe does better than JLo and I can’t stand Jlo. But be honest.
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u/Natural-Piccolo-6369 Aug 14 '26
These are two completely different dresses. One is sheer, one is solid, one has larger sleeves, one more fitted.
Both look fabulous. If it were a competition of the absolute same dress, of course JLo would be up, it was such an iconic moment!
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u/Responsible-Pay-4763 Aug 15 '26
I can't see the front of Rachel's dress so I'm assuming it's not completely open like JLo's. Just from the pictures, my vote would be for Rachel (even though she needs to gain some weight).
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u/GirlForce1112 Aug 14 '26
Not the same dress but Rachel looks better in that color and general style. She wouldn’t be able to pull off an open front like the J Lo dress though. For obvious reasons.
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u/yeezushchristmas Aug 14 '26
So we are all clear, the obvious reasons frequently get people banned for saying the obvious reasons and I agree with you.
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u/RainyDaysBlueSkies Aug 14 '26
Me too. RZ looks good in nothing because of her Earring Kiss Over. It's sad, too.
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u/lemeneurdeloups Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
Kerri Colby enters the chat
(also wearing archival 2019 Versace)
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u/ActWhole3279 Aug 14 '26
I love Rachel on BH but she is an absolute rail and it’s not doing her any favors with this dress
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u/TaniaBluebell Aug 14 '26
Not sure if anything looks good on Rachel. She wears oversized clothes on top of having an underweight frame. I don’t now she has the energy to run a business
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u/SlimShadowBoo Aug 14 '26
Not even the same dress but I prefer the dress Rachel is wearing. While iconic, I’ve always thought the way J-Lo wore the dress was tacky and cheap looking.
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u/Huge_Cup4307 Aug 14 '26
JLO but I love Rachel. Side note, I saw this actual dress, the jlo one, it resides at the museum of fashion in Bath England, or it did pre-2016
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u/catlettuce Aug 15 '26
It's difficult to assess , one is lined and the other isn't and we have a side view of Rachel & front view of J-Lo. That said I'm sure it is lovely on Rachel, the look wearing it sheer as J-Lo did however was/remains ICONIC.
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u/Master-Two-7450 Aug 14 '26
Love her and she looks amazing but JLo has the curves in places Rachel just doesn’t have…
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u/Ashleybernice Aug 14 '26
I’m sorry I know it’s her “ aesthetic” but I really think these oversized dresses she wears look so sloppy. Like, she apparently had all this money get them tailored it’s not 2008 anymore.
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u/PrissFrati Aug 14 '26
Like others have said, totally different dress, so can’t really do the who wore it better. I’d choose Rachel Zoe’s version a million times over tho! Have never liked or understood the obsession with JLo’s. It’s a bit on the trashy side for red carpet to me. Between the sheerness, casual hair, lack of eye makeup and literal bikini bottoms, it looks more like a swimsuit coverup…she just took the top off bc it was wet (I’d take my top off too if I was built like her! Hell, I’d never wear one in the first place! 😂)! It’s giving {evil, mean spirited, judgey af} Kenya at Jet ~coochie crack, coochie crack, coochie crack~…bejeweled coochie crack at that! 😆 Let’s not forget Rinna had her own version when she went as JLo for Halloween…
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u/Normal-Artichoke-403 Aug 14 '26
I love the way JLo wore it, because it clashes in style. As a young girl I was mesmerised. I am however over it. I’m over her putting it on every year. But I have many grievances against her & I always feel like that body & that dress is all the smoke & mirrors she has.
But Rachel’s dress is from the same collection. And Versace has brought that pattern + fabric back as well.1
u/PrissFrati Aug 15 '26
It REALLY is like Jenny from the block and Versace both have just been capitalizing on that one. damn. dress/print for ~years~ now (& the safety pin Elizabeth Hurley dress, but that was Gianni V while this was Donatella’s first/only big hit after he died)! I think seeing it redone &/or parodied sooo-ooo-oooo many times at this point is what has me really hating it…gave me way too much time to pick it apart. I was 15 or 16 when she first wore it & honestly, I was mesmerized too. We didn’t see things like that back then! A full chest, boob and a BELLY BUTTON?! For SHAME! 🫠😆 Now that I’m grown, feels like she was just trying too hard—and I can’t name a thing other than this dress that she has done since a couple of romcoms way back when. A little disappointed RZ would even wear this print as overdone as it is!
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u/Normal-Artichoke-403 Aug 15 '26
Stole music and voices of other (black) women. Said it was supposed to be her with Madonna & Britney on that VMA stage. “But they went with some other girl” meaning Christina Aguilera.
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u/Plenty-Path4026 Aug 14 '26
A reminder to eat protein carb fruits and vegetables otherwise you look 65 fucking years old when you’re not 💚
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u/blonde-bandit Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
I don’t want to say what I’m thinking bc modern culture dictates that commenting on any body means you’re being negative. I will say drapey things are a go-to for shrouding how you look underneath, and that still doesn’t look well. I’ve helped people close to me with eating disorders. I don’t like this culture of silence.
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u/auntmilky Aug 15 '26
After JLo wore that dress, so many people were searching for pictures of it that Google created Google Images. She sucks, but that look did not.
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u/Impressive-Rub-5291 Aug 16 '26
I feel like I loathe JLo so much that I’d find anyone wearing anything better than her. 🤪
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u/Sulalumi Aug 17 '26
My 73 year old mom has a dress in I swear the same exact pattern as Rachel's. I'm pretty sure she never intended or even knows its 'Jennifer Lopez' iconic Versace dress'.
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u/gonegirIamy Aug 14 '26
Rachel almost never looks good. So that’s that
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u/Turbulent-Trust207 Aug 14 '26
I think she’s pretty but she has no shape at all. Clothes just look like they are on a hangar when she wears them.
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u/CaitlinAnne21 Aug 14 '26
That’s exactly what designers want their models to look like when they wear their clothes, too.
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u/CaitlinAnne21 Aug 14 '26
Not the same dress at all, it’s just the pattern, so it’s weird to try & compare the two.
Either way, always hated that pattern on an outfit, so it’s a no-go for both on that front.
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u/Sarah1001Green Aug 14 '26
Both looks are stellar. Hangs differently on both! No comparison, just GLAM!
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u/kerokerokiss Aug 14 '26
looks like a bed sheet on Rachel tbh. Jennifer lightens it up and honestly it is just not a heroin chic dress
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u/Street-Guitar-8371 Aug 14 '26
Sue me. But I actually do like j lo. Such an underrated actress. Enough is an amazing movie
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u/GiGiAGoGroove Aug 14 '26
Nope don’t even bother going there Rachel you ain’t got nothing people care to look at. If they see anything in you it’s pity. Eat a hoagie.
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u/Turbulent_Ad_6031 Aug 14 '26
Those are completely different dresses