Julia Roberts is trying to bring back the shorts-and-blazer combo

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You know what I’m talking about – that scene near the end of Pretty Woman when Julia Roberts was wearing salmon-colored culottes and a blazer and she goes to meet Kit in the lobby and they go out by the pool and Kit is all “Cinderf-ckinrella”. And a fashion moment was born. I remember when the shorts-blazer combo was big, and Julia (or Pretty Woman’s costumer) was responsible for it. Anyway, these are photos of Julia in Spain today, promoting Eat, Pray, Love at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Instead of culottes, Julia is rocking a mini-skort. Her ass is very close to falling out of it too, but her legs are still in pretty good shape, right?

Anyway, this is the most slender Julia has looked for the entire European tour. She either just gains weight in her mid-section, or she’s pregnant. I don’t know why she keeps drawing attention to her waist, either. This outfit doesn’t have some hideous belt (thankfully), but Julia is still pulling at her blazer and trying to get the eye to go down. She’s either pregnant, or self-conscious about the weight she’s put on.

As for the actual outfit… well, I hope this doesn’t start something. This is actually the second shorts-blazer combo Julia has worn during promotion – she also wore a similar combo to the New York premiere. While Julia looks nice in what seems like a very cheap blazer & skort (albeit dated), she needs to try something else. I didn’t hate the dress she wore in Paris, maybe something more along those lines. Also: Julia needs to stop clinging to Javi. Every f-cking protional stop, she’s been on him like white on rice. Stop with the clinging, Julia. You’re in your 40s, you’ve been doing this for three decades, if you can’t do a photo op without acting like a little girl who needs to be protected, you should just stop.

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Julia and Co. in San Sebastian, Spain on Sept. 20, 2010. Credit: WENN.

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  1. chasingadalia says:

    Oh… no.

  2. Katie says:

    She does look thicker in the middle in recent photos, so I think this is her attempt to draw attention to her legs, which still look good, and away from her middle. Generally though I don’t really like her.

  3. a says:

    she looks like a stewardess!

  4. BethL says:

    Kaiser, your jealousy is showing. We all know if you were in Julia’s shoes, you would be ripping off Javier’s clothes. I don’t have a problem with Julia’s outfit but I think a white shirt would have been better than black.

  5. Karen says:

    I love the shorts and blazer combo but not this particular combo. I bought a lined pair of BCBGeneration shorts (with a bubble hem) for the summer and wore them with a jacket during the cooler summer nights. Depending on the cut of the jacket and the style of shorts, it can work very well.

    And yes, Julia has fantastic legs for a woman of her age.

  6. Stephie says:

    @a –good one!

    That’s a strange looking combo to me. Skirt (or skort) is too short imo.

  7. hairball says:

    I hate blazers on women – not flattering.

  8. Snarf says:

    Do. Not. Want.

  9. tiki says:

    she looks like hilary swank’s older transgendered sister–at approximately halfway through the process. i wonder if that was the look she was aiming for.

  10. Shannon says:

    If I had legs like hers I’d wear shorts and a blazer too. At least she looks pulled together, unlike so many of today’s celebs who look like they’ve just rolled out of bed and put on the clothes they left on the floor the night before. Team Julia!

  11. annaloo says:

    This is not the look.

  12. Johnny'sGirl says:

    She’s pregnant

  13. danielle says:

    Like her hair and face – again tho, the outfit is horrible.

  14. Super Sleuth says:

    I might like it better if the blazer were pressed and fit better than it does. The arms look too tight and yet it just hangs on her.

  15. guesty says:

    not a pretty woman.

  16. soso says:

    Offcourse she’s preggo…memba when they were saying she got a boob job, well the boobs the first assets to enlarge when a woman is pregnant. Julie will be welcoming a little soon. Congrats to the Moder family.

  17. albeli says:

    She doesn’t seem overly clingy to me.

    The blazer needs to go.

  18. Kim says:

    If she is pregnant she didn’t show in the Bikini shots in Hawaii 3 weeks ago. Also she just stated their family was commplete with 3 kids but I guess no birth control is fool proof.

  19. OtherChris says:

    She’s too old for skirts or shorts that short, no matter how good her legs look. It looks too girlish. Fine for at the beach our out in the garden, not for anything else.

  20. original kate says:

    she is just awful, all the way around.

  21. hellen says:

    The blazer doesn’t fit, the shorts or whatever are TOO short, the frilly black blouse doesn’t work, and WTF is up with the purple snakeskin shoes? She looks like she dressed in the dark.

    Yes, she has gorgeous legs, but her outfit is horrid.

  22. Riley says:

    Do all asses look like they hang down to the calves as Julia’s does? Yikes. I do love the shoes and her legs. Her hair sucks. She should have it down. And with a nice navy pencil skirt,a great black blouse, and a pretty, chunky gold necklace and this could’ve been a great look…

  23. bb says:

    Ugh, I don’t like it. Sure, her legs are one of her best assets, but this just looks like she forgot her pants/skirt. It might have had a chance of working if the blazer actually fit her and was a good several inches shorter.

    And Kaiser, what’s with so many Julia posts recently? Are you stalking her? I think someone has a little crush on Javier!

  24. maggiegrace says:

    The whole outfit looks like crap. She HAS been clinging to Javi in every picture I see of them together (and I’m sorry Kaiser, but he’s MY Javi), but look, he’s wearing his wedding ring,….so cute!! Next time he wins and oscar, you know she’ll pause for effect, and then say, “I LOVE MY LIFE!” Fuck your life Julia.

  25. smith says:

    Lukewarm mess. That is all.

    Although I suppose she does have Javier on her arm and I don’t …I’ll give her that.

  26. lambchops says:

    Black shirt and navy blazer? Not a nice color combo. She needs a tailor. These could look nice, but don’t fit her well.

  27. cat says:

    I’m sorry Kaiser and Maggiegrace, Javi is mine, I’m done with her hanging on him. I do like her shoes, that’s as nice as I’m going to be today.

  28. tuscan sun says:

    Something is up. In one photo call after another she’s covering her belly with her hands and/or wearing something to try to draw attention away from her middle. Either pregnancy or weight gain. I’m leaning towards weight gain.

  29. Ursaline says:

    I really hate when people try to combine navy with black. They are too close in color to contrast but not close enough to match. It looks like an accident. And the shorts/skort thing is far too short for that frumpy jacket. I agree that she needs a stylist instead to trying to do it all herself.

  30. cod says:

    i think she is trying to hide her chest. there have been rumors she has done something.

  31. iKat says:

    I think she looks amazing!! Biased cos I love Julia Roberts?? Maybe.
    And I LOVE Pretty Woman. You describing that scene made me smile 🙂

  32. Lauren says:

    Julia looks like she is trying too hard..lovely legs, scary face.

  33. nsfw says:

    I LOVE the shorts blazer combo- maybe cuz im in my 20’s? But I don’t like how she’d doing it….why is the blazer so big? is she pregnant? and why in fashion hell is she wearing a skort?!! seriously I was 12 when they were popular

  34. DiMi says:

    She’s still very pretty, but the outfit is odd. I don’t think we should be telling any woman of ANY age what to wear, especially saying that her shorts are too short. Her legs look great so she should work them.

  35. Cam says:

    NO, NO, NO. What the hell was she thinking? the only thing I like are THE SHOES! They are really really beatiful, I have ones that are very similar, now I remember how beautiful they are… guess I’ll wear them tomorrow. Anyway, don’t know what’s with Julia on this tour, but she’s got to hire a stylist RIGHT AWAY.

    Her legs look AWESOME, though.

  36. OC lady says:

    Ugh, she’s such a bad dresser. Does she do this on purpose? Is this her way of making people feel sorry for her? I don’t get it.

    Really, Julia. Just look at a fashion magazine and order a nice outfit. You can do it. Makes me want to dress her.

  37. hmm says:

    Don’t these people get embarrassed doing these ridiculous “photo ops?” I mean, we have the same three people in different outfits, in different cities, posing the same way, over and over again. The only difference is what they are wearing. Then they go sit their “beautiful” selves down in a movie theater chair that the rest of us wear sneakers, t-shirts and jeans in. The more you think about it, the more silly it seems.

    And I suppose if I was making bazillions of dollars doing it, I might just suck it up and pose too. Oh well.

  38. Donna Wingfield says:

    Like her hair better in these pictures.

  39. RHONYC says:

    oh boy!

    here we go.

    jules, darling…i hate it when goopy pulls this mess, and i TRIPLE hate it on you!

    those knees are the worst. they look *ahem* worn out.

    you too old for this sh*t, dummy.

    *eyeroll* 🙁

  40. Lindsay says:

    The shorts should be longer & burnt orange

  41. Elm says:

    I love how she changes her look with the different hairstyles, but I wish she would get a different dresser/stylist – with that beautiful figure/legs she could carry off some really classy clothes

    Julia – if you want some color therapy, let me know!

  42. victoria says:

    Chompers McHorseface

  43. Catherine says:

    There is an age where short skirts and short shorts are just not right. Her legs are awful looking even though she is very thin.
    Not attractive at all, but then she never was a fashion icon.

  44. nofreelunch says:

    She looks like she got dressed in the 1990’s. But it works for her a little bit. Nice and long in the legs, but perhaps a little long in tooth for short skorts. Glowing face, big boobs, tummy that can’t be spanxed? How obvious can it be? Congratulations Moder family.

  45. Melissa says:

    Great legs, but God that blazer looks cheap. You can see the outline of her bra from the back. And double-breasted? The blazer should be shorter and either single breasted or, if double-breasted, should be buttoned up to show her shape. Which brings us to the fact that she must be trying to hide her mid-section. Normally I’d think she’s pregnant, but she’s 43 and already has 3 kids. Time will tell, I guess!

  46. Mary says:

    These pics aren’t close ups, but I clicked on the link with the mumu dress and WTF happened to her nose? Either it’s a trick of the light or one of her nostrils is is up way higher and twice the size of the other.

    The skort is blech.

  47. sara says:

    Pregnancy rearranges body fat. It can give you a thick torso and hanging boobs, slim out your legs and make them more sinewy, and make your face gaunt and angular. Leggy women can end up looking like blobs with stork limbs, and that pooch is damn hard to get rid of. Julia had twins, so she’s always going to have to work around the changes in her body.

    Still no style or physical grace whatsoever. Get this woman a real stylist before she really embarrasses herself and teach her how to walk and move like a real actress. Gawky, clumsy, adolescent, graceless. Yecch. I can’t stand to watch this forty-something woman hurl herself around like an uncoordinated teenager.

  48. javagirl1 says:

    What’s with all the Julia posts lately? Pretentious and uninteresting!

  49. Amy says:

    Her young niece Emma, should be the one wearing those clothes not a woman over 35.

  50. aj says:

    The film she’s in at the moment. It does not go into the long history of corruption and abuse in siddha yoga and its gurus. It is one sick organization.

  51. chessie says:

    Age inappropriate. Dated. Unflattering.

  52. bizzy says:

    so. and i’m going to hell for saying this. but … unforgiveable as this outfit is, it’s actually doing more for her figure than anything else she’s worn on this junket. the legs are fantastic, irreproachable. the jacket is smoothing out the bust-meet-waist issue (though the fit is dodgy in places and the pocket linings are a heap).

  53. Daphne says:

    She ain’t pulling it off. It’s like you scroll down and wonder where her pants or skirt went.

    She needs to take a styling clue from Jennifer Aniston’s stylist- Jennifer Aniston- same age bracket- doesn’t look marmish minus pants. ever.

  54. lucy2 says:

    Didn’t everyone do this jacket and shorts on the red carpet thing a year or two ago? From what I remember of that, it looked good when the jacket was very fitted and everything was just the right length. This just looks baggy and sloppy, like she threw a random jacket on over her outfit.

    There are rumors she’s had a boob job, but who knows.

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