KT Tunstall at the Brit Awards 2006 (thumbnail)Oh, I was disappointed with a lot of the red carpet dresses at the Brit Awards this year: it felt like the school disco equivalent of award shows. If the Oscars is the graduation dinner-dance prom-type event and the Grammys is the dress-up Christmas party, then this year’s Brits was the random, mid-term disco held between 3pm-5pm on a Thursday in the school hall.

Jamelia, Joss Stone and Katie Melua at the Brit Awards 2006
We’ve got a whole classful of stereotypes too: we’ve got the geeky, insecure girl in Jamelia (seriously, who sucked out her personality and put her in that dull, unflattering dress?); we’ve got the pretty arty girl in a cheap dress from the New Look sale, Joss Stone; the girl in the dress that we like but which doesn’t seem like red carpet attire (Katie Melua); and we’ve got the non-descript girl who’s trying to make a statement and get noticed (KT Tunstall, at the top of the page in the pink). That look *could* work on KT but it just looks like she spent all her pocket money on the dress and then had to just wear some old boots from the bottle of her wardrobe. They don’t even fit too well (if you look on the bigger version, you can see the boot gapping away from her calf). And while I like the casual hair and no make-up look most of the time, combining it with that dress makes it look like you plain forgot.

Myleene Klass, Thandie Newton and Paris Hilton at the Brit Awards 2006

Myleene Klass and Thandie Newton seem to be the mature girls from the year above - they’ve got part time jobs so have more money to spend on more appropriate dresses but they’ve both been bitten by the skinniness bug. Myleene’s neck really quite scares us and Thandie just looks skeletal.

The only one to bring in the glitz is exchange-student-over-here-for-a-term Paris Hilton but she just looks trashy and out of place compared to the others. But as long as she thinks she looks cute, then nothing else matters…