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So this is what you wear to win an Oscar

It’s sparkly, sure, and that lipstick is… something, but I actually think Sandra Bullock is quite effectively pulling off a look that not enough Academy Awards attendees try for: Looking Like a Grown-Up.

It’s classy, with that woven not-revealing-but-oh-you-think-it’s-revealing top half that adds a little sass, a little awareness that it’s a big night and she’s beautiful. She’s got small but certainly expensive accessories.  She’s probably hiding enormous expensive shoes under there (and with a dress that length — why?), but overall, I give this two thumbs up.

She wasn’t playing a subtle character in “The Blind Side,” so this outfit is perfect.  It’s not so far divorced from her performance that we forget it; it’s not so far divorced from what we expect to see her in that we forget her, either.

2010 Red Carpet: Arrivals photos – The 82nd Annual Academy Awards® on Yahoo! Movies.