Fashion Fail Friday: Girl’s Day Goes for Short Shorts and Ends Up an Uncomfortable Eyeful

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• OMG! Horrible choice of costumes. What where they thinking.

  • I agree! It's like their butts are eating up the fabric. Whoosh!

• Yeah, so that eighth pic down (not including the one at the top) is just wow. I can't believe they were allowed to wear these while dancing. I mean, I'm not the only one seeing that, right?

• Wow... i gotta say, this really is bad looking. Way too much is showing. I'm sure those photographers were loving it based on the photos they took. Yikes!

• Ahhh....That's pretty normal in my country, so...it's just ok for me, I'm not shocked at all. But, I think that it's not look good 'cause GD don't have the real wish of look awkward. I hope at last. Indeed, my problem with the photos is the size, seems too short for them...
  Sorry, my poor english.

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• tbh if i had cellulite free thighs.. maybe even a cellulite free life.. then i would totally try those on fml

  • HAHAHA, cellulite, every girl's nightmare! Well, what if we could afford beauty salons and on a daily basis? Perhaps, cellulite would have been tamed by now! Alas, there's no time, but more importantly there're no "aesthetic" funds,;-)

• I don't see why Hyeri's group is being dragged in here when it's got nothing to do with any dramas?

  Yes the shorts are ugly and she can't act but this feels a bit mean somehow, you don't usually go after idol stage fashion fails like this.

  • It's her personal blog I thought? She can choose to write about any subject she wants right? I understand what you mean but she wasn't attacking them and calling them sluts. She was just saying it's not a good look.

    • I was just surprised because koala usually focuses on drama news or huge scandals, not trivial idol wardrobe malfunction news like this?

      I don't like Hyeri's attempts to act either but the choice to republish the pics here is a bit......how to say it, nsfw?

• It really doesn't look very good. But I also think perhaps they actually don't really have a choice in what they wear for performances..... So really there shouldn't have an impact on your impression of Hyeri. As they are completely different things. Acting and a performance as a girl group weather her acting is good or not is an entirely different point.

  • I agree that these girls probably lacked authority over styling choices. There must have been at least one member who felt uncomfortable and exposed when she saw the short shorts. Wearing spandex underneath would've helped immensely.

    • putting on some underwear would have helped more!!
      I feel bad for them. They probably had no say in what they wore, but still...

  • Actually, there is a lot of acting that happens in Kpop. It's one of the aspects that makes it so different than other music. It's not just about the song itself, but equally about the performance.
    I think Koala was commenting on her lousy sexy acting during her performance as well as on film.

    • @DeeDee lol you're reaching. She didn't even watch the performance, just commented on the outfits. This article has absolutely nothing to do with her acting, it's just click bait. I think Hyeri deserves the criticism she gets for her acting (and imo she isn't very musically talented either) but this article is pointless. Koala wants to drag Hyeri for her bad acting? Fine. But her Girl's Day activities have nothing to do with this.

      And like pigsnout said, acting in a music video/stage perf is completely different from drama or film acting...

    • I just want to say that while these girls don't have a say in what they wear during their performances and what dance they do, no one forced them to sign on. They went in knowing the kind of dances they are expected to do and that they have practically sold themselves to the agency. If fame is more important than morals, than it's a choice they made. And if the public criticises them for the clothes they wear, then that's the price they paid for fame. In any case, I'm sure they could have protested as a group about the skimpy outfits.

  • @DeeDee - the "acting" in kpop mvs is nothing like drama/movie acting, idols who are great at one can be terrible at another.

    I just don't see why this kind of pictures was even published here in the first place. I don't like Hyeri's acting either but this really has nothing to do with Reply series acting. And like people have said, it's well known that kpop idols do not have any control over their concepts/outfits, especially girls.

    • Well, we can certainly agree to disagree. I wouldn't equate them completely, but when you have girl groups dancing and dressing like this...and doing the MV's they do...then they get on variety shows and virtually pass out if they have to touch a guy's hand in feign innocence...I'd say someone is doing some serious acting somewhere! I find it funny though that people are getting in such an uproar about Koala commenting on this. It's almost like people are insulted for Girl's Day. And as if just because Koala rarely blogs about things like this that she's not allowed to at all. Weird. And, personally, I don't buy the excuse that they have no say in what they are wearing. I think Luhan, Kris and Tao have shown what one can do if you don't like what your company is doing.

    • @DeeDee - you forget, Luhan, Kris and Tao have a whole other country and its billion+ population to work in.

      You're making a completely false equivalency here, since Korean nationals who don't have the option of fleeing to China also do not have the option to just walk out because they didn't like what their agency tells them to wear. Not without being charged for millions of dollars and blocked from working in entertainment any more.

      Look at what's happening with JYJ even now, how many times has SM been fined for interfering with their activities? And they still continue to get blocked from public broadcast.

    • I hear what your saying, Gina, I really do. But I don't care how much it would cost me...there is no way I would drop my morals and wear that kind of indecent clothing. And it was clearly indecent. You make it sound like they are enslaved and are in a third world country where they have no choice. They do. They may 'feel' they don't, so they compromise, sadly, their own personal belief systems. That is a dangerous thing for anyone to do. Or maybe not, maybe every single one of Girl's Day loves the outfit..how do we know? We can speculate all we want, but the truth is we really have no idea what goes on behind closed doors. I'm not in the industry...and reading about it doesn't count...so I don't know how much say a group may have as a united front. I think everyone likes to think these girl groups are being forced to wear sexy clothing when they are really poor innocent girls who would never be caught dead in these outfits and concepts. I think the fans like that idea. I'm not so convinced it's reality. I'm not one who reads everything I can get my hands on in the Kpop industry, but the only time I've ever seen an idol actually come out and say they disagreed with a concept was Kevin from UKiss with their 'Quit Playing. He actually went public with his disagreement. I respected him for that.

• The 8th pic with the blonde shows way more than I'm comfortable, I hope it's because she is wearing a nude underpants.

• And also the they are facing a scandal. Only Yura was saved but the other 3.....Tsk tsk tsk. Bad acting + scandal hmmm I wonder what the AM1988 production will do about Hyeri

• My damn, this is a hot mess.

  I've always thought it is quite interesting how Korea is supposed to be conservative but yet kpop acts (especially female groups) can be so hyper-sexualized.

  • So the real question is this! Why does THAT happen? To whom do they address in those outfits since their society is so conservative and ready to cast stones to anyone for much, much less than being uber sexy? Is it their target group solely teenage boys and their "solo nightly activities"? (epic description, btw ;-)) And how come it's perfectly fine with so much bare leg but a slightly low-cut cleavage is frown upon?

    • Cleavage vs legs - it's an Asian thing, there is a funny pic about it,i'll see if I can find it later when i'm on my computer. Basically a white western woman and an Asian one walk on the street - western has her cleavage exposed and either pants, or longer skirt can't remember, the Asian one cleavage covered but legs completely exposed. They look at each other, notice the exposed part and think 'what a slut'.

      BTW the target audience are actually middle-aged men, not teens. Should clarify a bit.

    • um yeah, so my memory played some tricks, the pic is much milder and polite. the meaning behind the polite words is the same though :P
      https://thegrandnarrative.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/korean-women-revealing-clothing-attitudes2.jpg

    • @Annie, that's really a huge cultural shock (beyond being super funny, lol)!
      Does something have to do with strict religious beliefs? I can't think of anythithing, tbh. Even in countries where Catholicism was/is deeply rooted, cleavage has never been the issue. Maybe it's the "height" factor...Smaller body doesn't look "bare enough" even when both legs are fully exposed (but nothing else, unlike some of the photos above...I feel for those girls' embarrassement,that was terrible!) I'm in the dark completely...

    • Honestly, I don't know. Maybe it's because breasts have to do with breastfeeding and stand out more cause male ones are radically different/non-existant? And legs are not to that extent? I can't vouch that it's true for korea and other asian countries, but for example I know for sure that in Japan you mustn't wear a sleeveless shirt that makes your bra straps even a tiny bit visible, it's offensive. But girls can wear super short skirts, the kind that make me raise my eyebrows with 'ugh really?'.
      I'm trying to think if i've ever seen an asian tourist here with a sleeveless shirt, and I can't remember seeing even one. Even when you're basically dying from heat in anything more than a bathing suit.

      As far as height goes, asian proportions are actually different - longer upper bodies, shorter legs - it might make them look even less bare.