There is a Bald Emu Somewhere Shivering....

Ahhh!   Academy Ball 2012.  Who wore it best, worst, and "oh no she didn't."  Sources say the event sucked and they had some dance floor issues?  Sources also say it was so bad that some "regulars" ditched school after the assembly....errr concert?

My circle of friends looked at the ticket prices again this year and ditched it off the social calendar again - it hasn't been what it used to be as an event in easily 10 years, so it's not so tough an event to miss.  After all if we want to rub shoulders with inappropriately dressed nobodies who think they're somebody, well we can go to the car show, can't we? And how many times are we going to see Yo-Yo Ma sweat on the stage of the Academy?  This is an event where the ticket prices are too high and every year there is less that entices you to go.  (And apparently can it be said I am not the only one who feels that way since other chatter on the street is the numbers are down on this event?)

We'll start with the photos from Main Line Times Flair.  Should we start with worst dressed?  Who is that overly feathery Kelly Boyd woman kidding?  Man, did she mug an Emu for that dress?  And What is with the tough girl pose for Main Line Times? Paparazzi pose or perp walk?  Lordy, auditioning for the character "Rizzo" in a Grease re-make?  Susan Scovill captured Ms. Emu too.  And wow, she also better learn to cover up the buzz-face better, poor darling. (Susan's photos found here)

There were also a lot of women dressed as "meet my breasts and my escort is short"  .

Philly Chit Chat has some awesome photos - my fave of HughE's thus far is of a woman named Alexis Williams  - that red gown is a simple, stunning knockout and THAT is a pretty girl.  HughE has more in the Philly Post.

But seriously, some of the photos of the women I have seen, they look like aging hoochie coochie gals and I don't mean that to be kind. 

Main Line Times Flair has tons of photos and pretty much my favorite gown is the one worn by Leslie Ann Miller.  It struck me as Jackie O meets Audrey Hepburn in a modern hue. VERY pretty.  I bet you thought I was going to say Ms. Jody McNeil Lewis, right? Nah.  Sometimes it doesn't pay to advertise---and well, I think she has looked better other years. Elizabeth Mahoney's hair was all wrong and her make-up too washed out for her  gown, and that Diane Woosnam looks like she had a Fashion Emergency...and lost. Her "gown" was tea lengh and her shoes looked like versions of slides you come off the beach in.

I think that is what annoys me most of all about this event now.  This is a white tie event and half the women and men do not in my opinion, know what that means.   And lordy, some of the men? Their white tie doesn't fit right and they look like head waiters.

Some other photos found here on smug mug

And an end note is an article in Philadelphia Magazine called Confessions of a Main Line Housewife: Amy Burnham Tells All By Michael Callahan - I love the line "And if you don’t know her, you’re probably nobody."

Really?  A lot of us didn't know her before this.  The take-away of this article? Name dropper. And ummm, not all Main Line Housewives are surgically enhanced...just saying....