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[skygiants]

In last week's resurrected You're Beautiful costume polls, our favorite crossdressing nun Go Mi Nam pulled out her very first victory. The audience has spoken: the elfin poncho of woe is this winter's must-have accessory!



Congratulations, Go Mi Nam, and enjoy your victory while you rest on your laurels this episode; you earned it.


1. Much like Go Mi Nam's ambiguous pantaloons of last episode, this outfit of Jeremy's unfurls in complexity like a flower each time you take a closer look at it. First we have the puffy neon vest over a yellow t-shirt, with artfully slashed jeans...



...over which appears to be worn a -- yellow plaid kilt?





I think the outfit may also include a long-sleeved t-shirt worn underneath the other t-shirt and the puffy vest, with black arm-warmers, but that's really just icing on the cake. However, I do want to call your attention to the giant button necklace which is clearly ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to accessorize the kilt + vest + slashed jeans + arm-warmers + God only knows what else. I think it really pulls the whole outfit together.



(Meanwhile, Mi Nam: adorable! I would totally wear that outfit! Although possibly not if I was actively trying to pass as my brother, but, I mean, I respect that she refuses to uphold the strict sartorial rules of the gender binary.)

2. Speaking of chunky necklaces: here's Stylist Wang, artfully accessorizing a neon pink jumpsuit with a necklace that at least looks like she probably didn't make it herself in a kindergarten art class.



Honestly, though, if we're talking about arts and crafts, I think she deserves a shot at the win for her eyeliner game alone.



The hair, too! Genuine effort went into this. There was a vision here. I might not understand, but I can at least appreciate.



3. And He Yi too had a vision! Look: her bright pink shoes definitely match her bright pink bag.



And her enormous murdered-chinchilla vest kind of matches the gray shirt underneath?



The whole thing kind of pulls together, in a weird way. I mean, I'm sad for the dead chinchillas here, but not for He Yi; she can hold her own.



4. Although POSSIBLY not as well as Jeremy, in his earlier incarnation as a BRITISH PRINCE.



Yes, friends, this is an important part of his backstory; once upon a time he was engaged to Princess Amy, 20th in line for the British throne!



The epaulets! The bow tie! The hair! OH, THE HAIR. Truly, England lost something that day when Jeremy decided to head to Korea and join a boyband instead of following his destiny. And honestly, how could Princess Amy have ever resisted this picture of suave gentility?



5. AND WHILE WE'RE SPEAKING OF SUAVE GENTILITY



Everything about this outfit of Tae Kyung's delights me. It's so simple, yet says so much.



(Meanwhile, Mi Nam once again looking totally adorable in an admittedly not dramatically masculine fashion next to him! Killing it today, Mi Nam!)



(...ok maybe the shorts over pants Little Drummer Boy look is a little -- you know what, we'll let it slide. We've been here before. The shorts are totally normal shorts. There are no bloomers or kilts in sight. This is fine.)

ANYWAY BACK TO TAE KYUNG, somehow managing to make even his mother -- who is literally wearing an entire dead animal over her shoulder -- look restrained by comparison.




It's OK, Tae Kyung! You're still big! It's the pictures that got small!

Poll #17768

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 59

View Respondents

And the ultimate most fabulous costume of episode 8 is...

View Answers

Jeremy's commitment to layers
17 (28.8%)

Stylist Wang's commitment to hair and makeup
9 (15.3%)

He Yi's commitment to matching her shoes and her purse
3 (5.1%)

Jeremy's commitment to royalty
17 (28.8%)

Tae Kyung's commitment to GLAMOUR
13 (22.0%)

Comments

[davidgillon]

Think I have to give it to He Yi for single-handed commitment to making the chinchilla an endangered species. Though Tae Kyung clearly favours the craftsman approach to the extermination of lesser species.

[skygiants]

I'm pretty sure that the costume designer of this show is singlehandedly keeping at least one furrier in business.

[brownbetty]

I voted for stylist Want, but I must be frank, it was the jumpsuit alone that did it.

[skygiants]

The jumpsuit is, in fact, amazing. The random tied-up detail work on the sleeves -- a work of art.

[caramarie]

My computer couldn't cope with seeing that amazing trenchcoat(?) and the casual fox-over-the-shoulder in one screenshot and crashed, so clearly Tae Kyung is the winner for me.

[skygiants]

APPROPRIATE. Your computer knows what's up.

[rushthatspeaks]

I had to vote for Stylist Wang because the arm detailing on the jumpsuit matching the cords in her hair matching her TERRIFYING BRIGHT YELLOW LIPSTICK, but I want some kind of special award for Jeremy's British Prince outfit on sheer grounds of story-level you-must-be-joking-please-be-joking-oh-wow-you're-not-joking.

Mi Nam's crossdressing is TOTALLY FINE because everything she is wearing is one million percent butcher than the outfits she is standing next to.

[genarti]

Right? I kept looking at these "I mean, I maybe wouldn't wear it to present as a guy" screencaps and going BUT HER BANDMATE IS DRESSED AS A FASHIONABLE URBAN GRANDMOTHER.

[skygiants]

A very fashionable urban grandmother, to do him credit!

[skygiants]

I keep being like 'maybe she raided their closets' except she CLEARLY DIDN'T, Tae Kyung would never be caught dead in something that age-appropriate!

I'm a little bit sad the BBC didn't jump on the opportunity to do a crossover.

[elsane]

After every single outfit I thought, "oh, this has to be it, nothing can top this". So I voted for the trenchcoat because that is the kind of thing that happens when a trenchcoat gets very drunk, spends an unforgettable night with a textbook on differential geometry, and then shuffles home, and it is amazing.

are they deliberately styling Tae Kyung like a woman of a certain age to make the cross-dressing vaguely more plausible

[genarti]

Elsane I love you and your metaphors forever

[elsane]

♥ ♥ ♥

[skygiants]

Your description of Tae Kyung's trenchcoat is my favorite description of anything that I have read this month.

[elsane]

I am glad to contribute to the bounteous wellspring of delight (delight? delight) of the costume polls!

[whimsyful]

OMG that description A++

[elsane]

The fashion designer's vision was so inspirational!

[ranalore]

I was absolutely going to pick Stylist Wang, though for the jumpsuit and those heels as much as the hair and makeup. Then I got to Jeremy's Royal Connection, which is so hilariously random even by K-drama standards that I felt it had to be rewarded.

[skygiants]

AND PRINCESS AMY IS PINING STILL

[ranalore]

Well, I mean. WHO WOULDN'T

[in_the_blue]

Jeremy's bow tie stole my heart.

[skygiants]

Who could possibly resist it!

[lacewood]

The blinding power of Jeremy's sparkly prince suit (also, my astound-mazement at the backstory???) COMPELS my vote.

[skygiants]

In a later episode they explain his unusual cuddliness by being like, 'he's from the UK, so he's much more comfortable with physical contact' KDRAMA WRITERS, I HAVE SOME BAD NEWS FOR YOU ABOUT BRITISH PEOPLE

[lacewood]

omg that... that makes it EVEN BETTER.

THE UK: JUST LIKE THE US, EXCEPT WITH ROYALTY.

[saramily]

This was REALLY HARD but Jeremy's button necklace tipped it over the edge from Tae Kyung, who is wearing a 100% normal outfit... if you're my gram's friend Myra, who was a chainsmoking Russian idol collector who regularly got into slapfights over picking up the check in cheap diners.

[skygiants]

Yes, but was she

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[dun dun]

NIGHT BLIND???

[dhampyresa]

Jeremy's prince outfit is certainly very princely and outfitty.

[skygiants]

If I don't see Prince Philip in this next time he makes a public appearance, I'm quitting the monarchy.

[whimsyful]

I spent yesterday night going through the previous Your Beautiful fashion posts and laughed so hard I cried.

Can you do a Final Round where the winner/top 2 from each round compete against each other? Because personally nothing has topped Jeremy's neon green artist smock one-piece-gone-horribly-wrong so far.

[skygiants]

YES WE ABSOLUTELY CAN. I personally would be hard-pressed to choose between the neon green artist smock and the four layers of plaid shoulder ruffles. They're just both so beautiful in their own special way.