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Does this even qualify as a “dress”?

16 Feb 08:05am

Filed under: Allan Border Medal, Fashion, Haley Bracken, Society, Women

Congratulations Haley Bracken, you’ve made it. You’ve gone to a sporting awards night basically topless and now your photo is in all the papers. Your parents must be so proud.

Haley Bracken in her self-designed gown. Picture: Mark Smith

What next? Attending the 2011 Allan Border medal with no pants on?

Someone needs to explain to me the point of this race to the bottom of the scrap fabric bin that we’re exposed to twice a year: once at cricket’s “night of nights” and then at the other end of the year at AFL’s Brownlows.

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The sauce says:

03:57pm | 22/09/11

Its usually the oppressed, the humourless, the prudish and the titless who snipe and hiss about women who enhance themselves and become goddesses. Complaint is a cover for your inadequacies flat Tory. Thanks for the picture of Hayley though. I can’t stop beating off over it. Oh Oh….aaaah…. Read more »
SteveB says:

03:49pm | 19/02/10

I seem to remember Halle Berry wearing a very similar dress (red base rather than blue as I recall) while accepting her Academy Award a few years back, apparently it was tasteful when she was wearing a ‘nude’ dress designed by some famous gay dude, so is the problem that… Read more »

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