STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

shopaholic · Dooney & Bourke

sometimes i wish i knew...

laken1 · Hermes

Gross. I didn't even recognize her.

itsapinkthing · Coach

I think she looks so old now. The "puffiness" in her face makes me think she has a coke problem...I think celebs have some distorted view and it get's worse the younger they are with more money, and quick rises to fame these days.

Collette · Chanel

When was the last time she did a movie of any relevance? Why are people still taking her picture?

Kitty · Hermes

Man, she went downhill fast.

Tashina · Kate Spade

she doesn't look like she is even wearing a bra. you have to wear a bra with boobs that big, or they hang down to your belly button, like you see here.

sephorablue · Marc Jacobs

oh, you better believe there's a fug to go with this picture:

This is just not...it's just...not....this is just so bad. And it's not bad in, like, a fun, dumb, chaps-wearing, fur-turban-sporting, Posh Spice way. It's bad in like a bad, tacky, sad, I Have To Stop And Pick Up Some Ointment, Barefoot in the Esso Bathroom Britney way. Tara, honey, there's a reason no one is hiring you anymore. It's because you're too old -- and look way too rough -- for teen roles, and you haven't fixed yourself up to look like you're suited for any kind of Rom-Com roles at all.

Now, listen, I've seen you deskeezed (okay, like, maybe twice, but still), and you're still cute! You clean up...better than one would expect! Look around! Do you see Rachel McAdams out and about dressed like she just crawled home from a foam party in Ibiza? Is your American Pie contemporary Alyson Hannigan photographed looking like she's been styled solely using cast-offs from streetwalker's White Elephant sale? Does Reese Witherspoon ever FLASH HER TITS? No, no, and she'd rather shoot Ryan in the kneecaps first.

And yet all you do is complain that no one takes you seriously, and why are people so mean to you about all your partying, and why can't you get a job? But here's the thing: you do have a choice. You can either: a) give up on acting, retreat into semi-obscurity, socialize solely with celebutantes 10 years younger than you are, drink and tan your face completely off, and let your floo-flog hang out all over town, OR b) you can decide that you want to work again as something other than a punchline to a mean joke, and you can put on some sunscreen and some pants, spend a month in Promises, get your publicist to sell "TARA REID'S SECRET PAIN: And Her Triumphant Victory Over Low Self-Esteem" to People Magazine, start showing up places fully dressed like an adult woman, dig out your agent's number and get to work .

In other words, as Heather said to me once, "sack up, ho."

calico · Kenneth Cole

I always thought she wore too much make-up, but I did think that she was somewhat pretty. She looks soooo fake now though! The super platinum hair, the ton-o-make-up, the boob job. Also, she looks like she's gained so much weight in her face, yet her body doesn't look particularly chubby; perhaps it's her shorter hair not framing her face as nicely, or like itsapinkthing said, a coke problem? At any rate, she definitely needs a stylist