Title: We turned a charming and helpful show into a dreadful reality bit
Product review: Since I loved the BBC America Version of What Not to Wear (with Trinny and Susannah)I thought the American version would be just as charming, helpful, and gently chiding. Not so! Rather than the genuinely helpful and entertaining advice given by Trinny and Susannah, our American version is sniggering, condescending, and out to "entertain" us by embarrassing those whom it purports to help. To be sure, the English version also had the style counselors throwing up their hands in despair at the frumpy dress of their constituents, but then they put their hands down and set out to gently and firmly raise the confidence of "ordinary" women and men, regarding dress. Our American version simply bashes the taste and lives of the makeovers, and the hosts all seem to have developed their fashion sense from the tabloids.
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